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Get your lanyards! Need a lanyard for your Speedway ticket? Renell Rich of Fort Lauderdale offered racing fans a unique set of homemade lanyards, which she displayed on a pole as she walked around the infield. She stitched about 100 of them with a variety of fabrics: a few red-whiteand-blue cords, a set using the flame design that now decorates Jeff Gordon’s car, and for your NASCAR fashionista, a set using the fabric familiar to fans of the Vera Bradley quilted cotton bags. Her personal favorite is the pink camouflage ones with the NASCAR logo, but the big seller were the Confederate flags. “It just takes five minutes to make them and I’ve sold about 20 of them,” Rich said.
Filling up the kiddie pool can be a grown-up chore Jasmine Giddens of Kirkland, Ga., was attending her first July race at Daytona but found out quickly how important it was to have a kiddie pool at their infield campsite. She and boyfriend Beau Turpin of Albany, Ga., hand-pumped the pool, but that was easy compared to the challenge of figuring out how to fill it up. “Setting up the pool took up the better part of the day,” Giddens said. “There aren’t many places to get water, so we had to find the water and then we had to figure out how to get it
in the pool.” The solution: driving their pickup truck to the hoses, filling up the pool while it sat inside the truck bed, and driving back to their campsite, very carefully and slowly. “But everyone was so helpful to us.” Relaxing in the pool, with beverage in hand, the couple were ready for their first Coke Zero 400.
Parents step up for Seminole dance team
Getting hosed not a bad thing It may have been the best infield spot at the Daytona International Speedway in the hot and humid hours Saturday before the Coke Zero 400. A set of hoses ran cold water for campers at Tent City, the infield section between Turns 3 and 4. The water was a lifesaver for Ray Barrientes, a NASCAR dad from West Palm Beach who’s had a reserved spot near Turn 4 for 9 years. He brought his 7-year-old daughter Maria for her first race Saturday and they made several trips to the hoses. “This is our eighth trip to the hose since 9 a.m.,” Barrientes said. “Every time there was a free hose, we stop by to get a little wet and keep cool.” The neighboring tent had a kiddie pool available, but the pool water gets warm in the midday sun. “We can use that pool but because this water is colder, it’s better,” he said.
Talk about parental devotion. A dozen volunteers for the Seminole High School Dazzlers dance team worked at the food and drink booths at the infield Fan Zone. Saturday’s shift started at 9:30 a.m, lasted through the afternoon race, the Brumos Porsche 250, and the late night end of the NASCAR race. And some of the parents had already worked long shifts on Thursday and Friday. But it’s a good fund-raiser, thanks to the 10 percent proceeds that the group gets. The proceeds help to fund trips for the team, which has won seven U.S. Dance championships. “You’re on your feet for 18 hours,” said Troy Stickle of Lake Mary, whose daughter, Krista, dances with the team. “It’s worth it because we do it for the girls.” Stickle and Sherette Salter, whose niece is dancer Krystle Rosario, at least could keep cooler than the parents grilling the sausages. They doled out the ice-cold water and Coke beverages for thirsty fans. “This feels really good when you’ve been here all day,” said Stickle as he dipped his hand into the melted ice to serve four water bottles.
Petty tweets up Daytona Beach cafe One Daytona Beach cafe has discovered how much it pays to Twitter, gaining a NASCAR driver as a new customer. The Daily Grind Coffee and Cafe in Daytona sends out daily tweets of its menu specials on its account @dailygrinddb, which prompted a hungry Kyle Petty to visit. Turns out that Petty uses his twitter account, @kylepetty, to look for local eateries at each city on the NASCAR circuit. Petty and his entourage enjoyed breakfast and then sent out a picture (http://twitpic.com/91j7t) and tweet, raving about the egg and cheese sandwiches and “the BEST cup of coffee in Daytona Beach area.”
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NASCAR: Mayfield tested positive again By Tania Ganguli
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NASCAR said driver Jeremy Mayfield (right) tested positive a second time for methamphetamines and asked a federal judge to reinstate its suspension of Mayfield from racing.
“Given the serious safety concerns raised by Mr. Mayfield’s participation in NASCAR events, Defendants respectfully request that this Court immediately vacate its Order, direct Plaintiffs to select a suitable laboratory capable of testing for all three drugs at issue in this case, and provide such other and further relief
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Board yields to suit, quashes game cuts By Buddy Collings SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
GAINESVILLE — Trinity Prep softball pitcher Heather White got her games back. So did Robert Brown, a Clermont East Ridge boys basketball star who said playing 25 regular-season games instead of 20 could make a difference for a team hoping to make a playoff run next season. Players, coaches and parents
across the state were cheering Wednesday afternoon as word spread that the Florida High School Athletic Association’s board of directors bowed to the Dearing threat of a lawsuit and voted 15-0 to rescind the controversial scheduling reductions it ap-
proved in April. “Every person I’ve talked to has been so upset about the cuts,” White said. “I want to play as much as I can before I go to college.” The cuts, which came under attack from gender-equity advocates and spawned an ongoing court case, would have reduced varsity schedules by 20 percent and junior-varsity and freshman schedules by 40 percent for all sports except football and competitive cheerleading.
Timeline of events, C4 Roger Dearing, an Edgewater High and UCF alum in his first year as the FHSAA’s executive director, asked Wednesday for the board to scrap his first major initiative to avoid a potentially lengthy and costly court battle. Three months ago, Dearing urged the board to approve the cuts as a uniform statewide solution to budget woes that threaten high school sports.
“Our recommendation is to rescind basically because of the potential for litigation,” Dearing said before Wednesday’s vote at FHSAA headquarters. Afterward, he added, “We don’t police Title IX compliance for our member schools. That’s not an issue we want to be spending time and money on.” The turnaround sends many PLEASE SEE FHSAA, C4
Orlando Magic
Still lots of work for Magic By Josh Robbins SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
A power forward who can grab rebounds, shoot and run the floor? Check. A center who can back up Dwight Howard? Check. The Orlando Magic have signed Brandon Bass and re-signed Marcin Gortat, but the team isn’t done making additions. General Manager Otis Smith said he still wants to round out the roster. The Magic don’t have much money to spend. The team used much of the $5.854 million mid-level exception to sign Bass, but it can use the remaining money to lure another player. The biannual exception of about $1.9 million was used last year and isn’t available. So, the Magic likely will be looking for bargains.
“I was contacted by one, but I’m not interested. I love it here. We have a lot of work to do. That’s the bottom line.” — Bowling Green coach Urban Meyer, 2002. Six days later, he was coach at Utah. “All I keep saying is I plan on being the coach here at Utah.” — Utah coach Urban Meyer, 2004. Five days later, he was coach at the University of Florida. “I’m not going to Notre Dame. Ever.” — UF Coach Urban Meyer, 2009. So UF Coach Urban Meyer says he is never coaching at Notre Dame. Ever. No way. Nu-uh. Never. Ever. Not in your dreams. Not in a billion years. Nope. Not me. We’ve heard Andrea that one, oh, Adelson seemingly a milSentinel lion times. columnist The question isn’t whether or Big names honor not we believe him Bowden, C3 when he says it. Coaches lie. It’s in their job description. They have to please their players, their recruits and their fans. It’s a no-win situation. Rumors will dog coaches. And, let’s face it, they don’t lie every time they speak. So there must be a way for them to minimize the impact of speculation and innuendo, right? Perhaps coaches should take notes. Richard Weiner, a public-relations ex-
Josh Robbins can be reached at jrobbins@orlandosentinel.com.
Wish list � A point guard who can back up Jameer Nelson and compete with backup Anthony Johnson Robinson for playing time. The Magic could go with a young guy such as Russell Robinson, who played in the D-League last year and was on the Magic’s summer league team last week. Other available free agents include Anthony Carter and Tyronn Lue. � Another “big” who can play defense and grab rebounds in a reserve role. Smith still Collins wants to add some size for the front court. Guys who are still unsigned are Jason Collins, Francisco Elson and Theo Ratliff. � A wing player. With Vince Carter, Mickael Pietrus and J.J. Redick under contract, this is the Richardson Magic’s leastpressing priority. There are a lot of available guys who fit this description. Matt Barnes and Orlando native Marquis Daniels, who are still unsigned, may be too pricey. The team could bring back Jeremy Richardson.
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Meyer-Notre Dame timeline � Dec. 10: Meyer told South Florida radio station 560 WQAM: Notre Dame is “still my dream job. That hasn’t changed. . . . Once my kids are done, maybe someday I’ll go coach there.” � Dec. 16: In an emphatic effort to clear the air, Meyer twice said he plans to be in Gainesville a “long, long time.” � May 13: In an interview on the Paul Finebaum Radio Network, Steve Spurrier said about Meyer: “They’ve still got that rumor
going down there, Paul, that if he has about one more big year he might be the Notre Dame coach.” � May 15: Meyer tells the Gainesville Sun: “I didn’t know what [Spurrier] was getting at. Here’s a quote for you — I am not going to Notre Dame. There’s gotta be something else going on in sports. Isn’t there car racing going on?” � July 11: Meyer says at a charity golf tournament, “I’m not going to Notre Dame. Ever.”
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Barnes not inked, just yet
Wednesday came and went without a formal announcement that free-agent forward Matt Barnes had signed with the Orlando Magic, but the two sides still have a deal in principle. The agreement — for two seasons, including a player option for the second season — could be finalized today. Magic General Manager Otis Smith declined comment on Wednesday about Barnes because the deal is not official.
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The Magic are also looking for a reserve point guard and backup big man to reach the minimum 13-player roster. Despite reports to the contrary, Smith said the team is not close to finding a point guard. “But I’m not in a hurry, either,” Smith said. “We’ll take our time, and we’ll get the right player for us.”
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Decade-defining H.S. sports years
Crowning glory for Lake Mary By Shannon J. Owens SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
The Lake Mary girls basketball team completed a 33-0 state championship season in 1998. Only one game, though, brought down the house for former players and retired coach Carl Brown: Lake Mary versus Pensacola in a region semifinal at a packed Rams gym. It was a rematch of the 1997 state final, which Lake Mary lost. Lake Mary was No. 1 and Pensacola No. 2 in the state. The game featured Tennessee signee Michelle Snow of Pensacola and Florida State-bound Lauren Bradley of Lake Mary. “I definitely get excited thinking about it,” said Brown, who retired from coaching in 2008. “That team [Pensacola] could have played mid-major college teams and won.” Talent ran deep in Lake Mary athletics during the 1997-98 school year. Bill Eissele guided the Rams’ girls soccer program to its second state title, while Jeannie Fisher coached Lake Mary to its first softball state title. Brown, Eissele and Fisher collectively have 1,213 victories in 60 seasons coaching the Rams. “When you invest as much as they did, you’re going to have success,” Bradley said. Their accomplishments became the crowning glory during a sports season in which 17 Central Florida teams won state championships.
It’s passion that puts SEC above all others
HOOVER, Ala. — With all due respect to President Barack Obama, we might be better off with Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive running the country. Recession? There ain’t no stinking recession. Not in the SEC. Everywhere you look, you see corporations struggling and busiMike Bianchi nesses shrinking. And then you Sentinel show up at the annual Southeastcolumnist ern Conference Football Media Days and Slive is talking about his ESPN stimulus package and how the SEC is entering a “golden age.” Hard to believe, isn’t it? The SEC is enjoying its golden age while everybody else in college sports is entering their zinc phase. The SEC is like the aristocracy during the French Revolution. While the college athletic world outside the SEC is begging for bread crumbs, Slive might as well have stood up at the podium Wednesday and told the nearly 900 media members, “Let them eat sod!” Of course, Slive would never be so brazen. In this downtrodden economy, he has to retain at least a modicum of humility just to give a sliver of hope to the huddled masses in the ACC, Big 12 and Big East. But in all honesty, those leagues — not to mention the paupers and plebes in the non-BCS conferences — might as well just give up. There’s no way they can compete with
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Losing the 1997 girls state basketball final was the best thing that happened to Brown and the Rams. “We came back to school, and that’s all they talked about the whole time,”
In the SEC, everybody wants to go undefeated
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By Jeremy Fowler
The series
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HOOVER, Ala. — Urban Meyer will clutch the podium at today’s Southeastern Conference Media Days as a coach staring down the ultimate risk-reward season. With a winnable schedule and the most talent in the country, his Gators could become the fifth SEC team in the last 30 years to go undefeated on the way to a title. If the league finally loses the grace of the Bowl Championship Series and shows the slightest weakness, one Gators loss could disrupt Tim Tebow’s relatively effortless ride to the top of college football. A schedule of three non-conference cupcakes, no Alabama and no Ole Miss doesn’t help Florida’s cause. The goals are clear. The Gators want no blemishes in their scorebook. “[An undefeated season] is something that’s never been done here,” Tebow said.
While wondering what 2009-10 will bring, the Sentinel’s Varsity staff continues a look at some of the most memorable high school sports years. We started with a memorable sports year from the 1960s and will work our way toward the present — a decade at a time. Here is the series rundown: � MONDAY: 1961-62 � TUESDAY: 1976-77 � WEDNESDAY: 1982-83 � TODAY: 1997-98 � FRIDAY: 2006-07
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Ng races to new challenges By Stephen Ruiz
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Hung Ng seeks challenges. The Orlando resident’s psyche did not sink in Death Valley, California, last week when he began the acclaimed Badwater Ultramarathon. It didn’t soar, either, when he crossed the finish line at the trailhead on Mount Whitney — 135 miles and 33 hours, 45 minutes, 26 seconds of (mostly) running, (some) walking and (little) sightseeing later. Not even injuring his left shin early in the ultramarathoning’s version of Mount Everest could deter him. He finished 19th.
“You get in the moment,’’ Ng (pronounced Ing) said. “I heard about shooting stars and jets flying overhead, but you are just looking straight ahead. You are meditating almost. If you start thinking about the past, the future, the finish, you will get bored.’’ Hung Ng is persuasive. His girlfriend, Heather Griffith, also runs ultramarathons (any race longer than the marathon distance of 26.2 miles) who moved to Orlando to be with Ng last July. That was one month after they met and six months after they began exchanging e-mails.
His five-person support crew included Griffith and four people who were part of a pace team for the Disney World Marathon in January. They were in a bar when Ng mentioned he might run in the invitation-only Badwater, which began July 13. They told him they would be his crew if he got in. “About six weeks later, we get an e-mail,’’ said Darris Blackford of Columbus, Ohio. Said Jeff Horowitz, the author of My First 100 Marathons who has known Ng since junior high in New York: “He just is incredibly easygoPLEASE SEE NG, C3
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Ultramarathoner Hung Ng of Orlando is sprayed with cooling water during the running of the Badwater Ultramarathon in California’s Death Valley.
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Junior Alyssa Orr, of Stafford, Conn., recently moved into an apartment in Colonial Court. Orr said she is very excited to live close to campus with her boyfriend.
Somerset Senior Emily Fox has lived in an apartment in Colonial Court since January. Fox said one of her favorite memories in Colonial Court is fighting with airsoft guns in the parking lot.
Lexington senior Jackie Gallimore moved into her boyfriend’s apartment in the rear complex of Colonial Court last November. This summer they moved into an apartment in the front complex to have more space.
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University to transform Colonial community Western alumna Kat Wilson remembers Colonial Courts as a community where students felt connected enough to knock on each other’s doors to ask for milk or eggs, a community where students bonded simply because they were neighbors. Providing international and visiting faculty with more housing close to campus is causing this student community of apartments and cottages to dwindle. Colonial Courts, located on Normal Drive across the street from Southwest Hall, is a group of six cottages and three apartment buildings where many Western students have lived. Western has been buying up the properties in Colonial Courts for two years. Now only two apartment buildings have student residents living there, according to information collected by Deborah Wilkins, chief of staff and general counsel. The university now owns all of the properties in Colonial Courts after the Board of Re-
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gents approved the purchase of the last four cottages on July 31. Residents have fond memories of Colonial Courts. “It wasn’t the place; it was the people living there,” said Wilson, who lived in Colonial Courts from 2005 to 2007.
Students will find their dorms packed this year. On-campus housing will be near capacity at 4,950 residents, said Brian Kuster, director of Housing and Residence Life. Increased demand for housing almost left 160 freshmen without beds on campus. “We will probably open completely full,” Kuster said. “We may even have RAs with roommates.” It’s common for dorms to be full, but overcrowding usually sorts itself out in the first week because there are always about 50 people who don’t show up, he said. Demand for housing increased among juniors, seniors and graduate students, who are not required to live on campus. Western also retained more sophomores, who traditionally must live on
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It wasn’t the place; it was the people living there.” —Kat Wilson Former Colonial Courts resident
The swine flu and you: campus has plan in place By TABITHA WAGGONER news@chherald.com
Western students and their parents might rest easier knowing officials have a plan in case of an H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, outbreak. Swine flu, which has shown a preference for infecting young people, was declared a world pandemic on June 11 by the World Health Organization, according to the organization’s Web site.
There had been 209,438 cases and almost 2,200 deaths from swine flu as of Aug. 23, according to the Web site. There have been 24 confirmed cases of swine flu this year in the Barren River District—18 of which were in Warren County, said Teresa Casey, nurse program manager for the communicable disease team at the Barren River District Health Department. On August 18, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced to the Centers for
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Scottsville sophomore Spenser Claiborne plays The Beatles’ “Octopus’s Garden” on Glasgow sophomore Erin Napier’s Limited Edition The Beatles: Rock Band. Napier invited friends over to play the game on Wednesday. He picked up his pre-ordered game at Gamestop earlier that day. The total set cost $250.
'Come Together' The Beatles: Rock Band spans generation gap By ANGELA OLIVER | diversions@chherald.com Beatles fans love hard. They wait in long lines, save up to buy collectibles and can recite nearly every word in the band’s catalogue. And they will usually tell you good music is priceless. For Glasgow sophomore Erin Napier, it was easy to drop $250 on The Beatles: Rock Band, a new version of the popular video game featuring 45 of the group’s songs. The game was released Wednesday. Napier and his roommate, Glasgow sophomore John Alexander, have been friends since ninth grade. They spent hours Tuesday studying and finishing homework to have free time to play. “We’ve been anticipating this for a while,” said Napier, who reserved the game months in advance. Growing up in a musical home, which Alexander calls “Beatlemania,” Napier was exposed to his father’s vinyl collection early. “It’s a bonding thing between us,” he said. “Me and my father have a weakness for buying music, then sitting around talking about it all day.”
The best friends sat in the BatesRunner Hall lobby waiting for two more friends to come over. They challenged each other. “I kill the vocals and the bass, and I can actually play,” Alexander said. “Yeah, you’re pretty good on the real guitar, but I can beat the shit out of you on Rock Band!” Napier said. A small white sign hangs over the entrance of their room, boasting the handwritten title, “THE MAN CAVE.” T-shirts and flip-flops are scattered on the floor. The walls are an indistinguishable sea of posters of everyone from Bob Marley to Pink Floyd. But The Beatles’ influence is heaviest, with multiple photos of the group and John Lennon and copies of remastered al-
bums, released the same day, on the desk. On their 1967 hit, “With a Little Help From My Friends,” The Beatles sang, “What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?” All four men playing the game said the song was one of their favorites. Napier’s friend Daniel King, a Scottsville sophomore, sang “Revolution” first. He sang passionately, though sometimes off-key. His friends bobbed and swayed next to him as the clicks of guitar keys and taps on the drums matched the notes blasting from the TV. Rock Band, a simulation game combining guitar, bass, drum and vocals, has become a staple in popular culture since its release in 2007. “It’s good because it’s cross-generational,” said Tony Harkins, director of Popular Culture Studies. “It allows parents and kids to engage and have something in common.” SEE BEATLES, PAGE 6A
WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING The Beatles went out of their way to do new things. So it's no surprise that a Beatles game doesn't feel at all like the traditional music title. It's special." —HILARY GOLDSTEIN IGN.com
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In 2003, Melissa “Katie” Autry was a student in Richard Bowker’s introductory biology class. Autry, like Bowker’s 100 or so other students, was preparing for finals. But on the night of May 4, Autry, a Pellville freshman, was raped, sodomized and set on fire in her Poland Hall room. Medical officials took Autry to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she died days after her attack. “I do remember her,” said Bowker, who is now the vice president for research and dean of graduate studies. “...I remember vividly when this happened, and it was just an absolute horror.” Six years later, most of the students on campus in 2003 have graduated. And last week, the legal issues surrounding Katie Autry the case ended. Western officials aren’t appealing a June decision to award Autry’s estate $200,000, said Deborah Wilkins, chief of staff and general counsel. That money, the maximum allowed by the Board of Claims, comes out of the state treasury. In return, Autry’s estate will discharge Western and all other related parties of all liability surrounding the incident, according to the case settlement provided by Wilkins. In a June entry on the Kentucky Injury Lawyers Blog, Ben Crocker, the attorney for Autry’s estate, is quoted as saying that Western has now been “held accountable for the mistakes it made that led to Katie’s death.” Crocker said Autry’s family is happier with the state’s decision than with the award itself. He said Autry’s assailant, Stephen Soules, was able to access her room SEE END, PAGE 6A
Abroad options grow By COLLEEN STEWART news@chherald.com
Western students have more opportunities than before to take their textbooks around the world. On Wednesday, the Study Abroad Fair teemed with prospects, financial aid options and students wanting to experience life outside of Bowling Green. Western had about 500 students study abroad last year, said Jerry Barnaby, interim director of Study Abroad and Global Learning. “Once they decide that, there are ways to make it happen.” Students have been taking advantage of Western faculty-taught programs, affiliate programs and programs offered by the Honors College to study abroad, but this semester, the options have expanded. “We’re excited for this year,” Barnaby said. “There is a lot of energy from all of the new programs.” SEE ABROAD, PAGE 5A
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Tailgaters told to tone it down By MANDY SIMPSON diversions@chherald.com
A few blaring sound-systems, truck-top dancers and students reluctant to trade their lawn chairs for stadium seats may have tinted last Saturday’s tailgating a slightly darker shade of disorderly. After hearing from several people that tailgaters got a little carried away last weekend, President Gary Ransdell sent an e-mail to students Tuesday reiterating Western’s tailgating policies. That followed an e-mail Friday afternoon reminding students of tailgating rules. Ransdell said excessive alcohol consumption resulted in a rowdier tailgating crowd than usual.
“Tailgating doesn’t mean getting drunk,” Ransdell said. “Some people are correlating those two things.” Police arrested some people who may have made that false connection. Three people were arrested Saturday and charged with alcohol intoxication in a public place, campus police reported. Four others were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for fighting near Houchens-Smith Stadium. Howard Bailey, vice president for student affairs, said Saturday’s tailgating events were not the wildest he’s seen, but he did have a hard time getting students to leave tailgating areas and attend the game. SEE TONE, PAGE 5A
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Tailgating update The Tailgating Committee met Thursday, and an e-mail to Greek leaders followed. In the e-mail, Gary Wiser, coordinator of student activities, said: ■ Large sound systems won’t be allowed in tailgating areas. Organizations and/or sponsors working with Athletics can bring sound equipment. ■ Tailgating areas will close 30 minutes before games start instead of 20 minutes. ■ Dogs, hard liquor and glass bottles aren’t allowed in tailgating areas.
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The words penned in the Constitution more than 200 years ago might be dismissed by some as archaic, but the rights those words guarantee extend to present day. And some Western students are no strangers to the five First Amendment freedoms laid out in the Constitution: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.
Txtng could mean tckt 4 drivrs By PHIL FREEMAN news@chherald.com
Next year, cruising down the highway while texting might persuade a cop to hand texting-savvy drivers a ticket. Kentucky legislators will decide early next year if text messaging while driving on the state’s roads and highways should be prohibited. State representative Jody Richards, D-Bowling Green, sponsored a pre-filed bill that would prohibit drivers from text messaging while driving and enable law enforcement to fine violators of the offense.
Richards said banning text messaging is logical to save lives because it decreases a driver’s chance of having a wreck. “It makes so much sense not to text while you drive,” he said. The proposal doesn’t bar a driver from talking on a cell phone because drivers can still watch the road then, Richards said. If the bill is passed into law, offenders won’t have to face jail time, but continual violations will include fines, he said. The proposal is still in the prefiled stage and can’t become a bill until the session meets in January,
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See what local representatives are saying, 3A he said. State representative Jim DeCesare, R-Rockfield, said the proposal is a serious issue, but legislators need to be careful with the final decision. DeCesare said legislators need to define what texting is before they pass the bill, so people aren’t pulled over for using their GPS devices. SEE TXTNG, PAGE 3A
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Constitution Week is celebrated nationally during the week of Sept. 17 in order to commemorate the date on which the document was signed in 1787. In honor of Constitution Week, the Herald spoke with five students about exercising their First Amendment freedoms. SEE RIGHTS, PAGE 7A
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