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Professor uses county clerk controversy as case study BY ANDREW HENDERSON HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The actions of a county clerk in Rowan County continue to receive attention in the state and around the world. One professor, however, has taken the case and used it to his advantage in the classroom. On June 26, the Supreme Court reached a 5-4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized same-sex mar-

riage through the U.S. Three days later on June 29, Kim Davis, a Rowan County clerk, declined to issue marriage licenses to both gay and straight couples, according to the Courier-Journal. John Rogers, attorney at law and management adjunct at WKU Glasgow, used the ongoing legal battle of Davis and her office as the basis for a case study in his business law class. Rogers is a solo practitioner. He focuses his practices in the area of bankruptcy, and his firm represents debtors

in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Bowling Green Division. Rogers said his class is the introduction to law for business students and essentially exposes them to different aspects of the law. He said he felt Davis’ case would make a good example to teach about the relationship between the federal and state levels of government. “It was an opportunity to teach them how the federal court system works,”

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uring his time at a small newspaper this summer, Nick Wagner was given responsibility for a the bulk of the newspaper’s work. From this, Wagner got a taste of what it will be like to work in the professional world.

While interning at The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead in Fargo, North Dakota, Wagner, a junior from Ada, Minnesota, pho-

tographed everything from breaking news to controversial topics. He says he took away a stronger sense of work ethic and

a can-do attitude. “Well, obviously working at a newspaper will go a long way whether it’s on my resume or just adds to my experience,”

Rogers said. Rogers said the case has offered much discussion and many questions in the classroom. He said his students are more interested with the case since it offers examples of real events instead of abstract concepts. “It’s a good civics lesson,” he said. Tristan Hurt, Glasgow sophomore, is a student enrolled in Rogers’s course. He said discussing the Davis case aided him in better understanding court

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SGA delays Confucius resolution vote BY MARCEL MAYO HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

The Student Government Association’s Tuesday meeting ended with both successes and concerns. Among the night’s developments was SGA’s announcement that it will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. During his report, SGA president Jay Todd Richey said SGA did not sign a contract with Uber, and SGA did not have a role in bringing Uber to Bowling Green or WKU. During Tuesday’s meeting, two bills passed, one executive proposal was approved and one resolution was tabled. Bill 1-15-F to recognize the WKU Elizabeth/Ft. Knox Student Body Association at the WKU Elizabeth/Ft. Knox Campus, together with Bill 2-15F to support the MyCampusToo Initiative, passed unanimously. “I am extremely excited about MyCampusToo,” said Richey. “We can lead campus inclusion efforts across the United States.” SGA will be assembling the MyCampusToo task force as part of their next step. Executive Proposal 1-15-F to create a sustainability committee also passed unanimously. SGA tabled Resolution 1-15-F to concur with the University Senate concerning the Confucius Teacher Training Institute due to uncertainty regarding WKU’s contract with Hanban. The resolution will be voted on in the next meeting. The Confucius Institute is a project

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Carl Fox resigns from position as assistant provost Dean of the Graduate School Carl Fox resigned to take a job at University of WisconsinWhitewater. "I'm going to miss our students," Fox said. "I love seeing students come through here, succeed, and get a good job. SHABAN ATHUMAN/ HERALD

BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU After his short time as the assistant provost and dean of the Graduate School, Carl Fox will be leaving the Hill for a position at another university. In an email to faculty and staff sent Thursday, Sept. 3, David Lee, the provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, announced Fox’s resignation from his post to accept another position at a different university. Fox has been assistant provost and dean of the Graduate School since March 2013. He will finish at WKU on Oct. 31. His new place of employment is the University of WisconsinWhitewater as the director of the

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Lee said he will announce an interim dean shortly, and the interim dean will start no later than Nov. 1. He said Fox has served WKU admirably. “Dean Fox has pursued a number of projects related to graduate education at WKU, but in particular he has worked hard to build enrollments in our graduate programs and to strengthen our graduate assistantship offers,” Lee said. Fox said he decided to leave WKU because it was “an opportunity to be closer to family and work more closely in the development of university-based research and development.”

He added that he learned the value of people while here, and he plans to use that at his new place of employment. “People are our most important resource,” Fox said. His proudest achievement is “the increased cohesiveness of the Graduate School staff and the recognition of its role and purpose of the Graduate School at WKU,” he said. The interim dean of Potter College, Larry Snyder, said Fox’s presence will be missed not only in the Graduate School but in other organizations as well. “He was also a valuable member of the Intellectual Property Committee and board member of the WKU Research Foundation,” Snyder said. “His expertise will certainly be missed there.”

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The Honors College is in the process of finding another academic advisor. It is currently in the long-list stage of huntAMI for a new CARTER ing employee, which means they’ve narrowed the picking pool of 100 applications down to about six or eight, according

to Craig Cobane, the executive director of the Honors College. Some of the applicants are WKU alumni. Cobane said the choosing pool will be narrowed down to a short list of three or four applicants. The process of choosing the next academic advisor for the Honors College is headed by Interim Associate Director Dana Bradley. Ami Carter, the former academic advisor, left the Honors College this year to start life with her husband in Indianapolis, according to Cobane.

Carter’s departure from the Honors College leaves academic advisor Wolfgang Brauner to advise the Honors College students by himself. “It’s a challenge to advise all of these students, especially when numbers keep growing,” Brauner said. Advising students entails more than helping students choose their semester schedules, said Cobane. “Academic advisors look into the dreams of the students and refers (sic) them to scholarship opportunities, programs

and faculty,” Cobane said. Two-thirds of the Honors College students study abroad, said Brauner. “We [the Honors College] do more than co-curriculars … It’s about what we do outside of the class—preparing students for pre-professionalism,” Brauner said. Cobane is certain the position will be filled by a deserving candidate. “There are lots of talented people [in the application pool] and I’m very confident that we’ll find the right fit,” Cobane said.

Carter was greatly admired by her students and co-workers. Cobane says she received many gifts over the four years she was with the Honors College. “We are in a transition period,” Brauner said. He expressed some uncertainty about whether the new advisor who will work alongside him will live up to the high bar Carter left behind. “Ami is a hard act to follow, but we are confident to find a great replacement,” he said.

Fairness Campaign’s fight for LGBT equality continues BY MONICA BROWN HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU Bowling Green’s Fairness Campaign set new goals after the recent passing of the same-sex marriage law. Dora James, western Kentucky’s regional organizer for the Fairness Campaign, said although the organization still advocates for same-sex marriage, there are new projects to

pursue. “Our biggest project at the moment is collecting petitions from the people of Bowling Green and WKU to give to the mayor for various state-wide fairness laws,” James said. In Kentucky, the fight against discrimination is not finished. James said members of the LGBT community, although they can now legally marry, face the possibilities of dis-

crimination at work and in their social outings. “Right now, it is legal for an LGBT person to be fired from their job, denied housing or kicked out of a restaurant or park. The petitions are in favor of adding LGBT fairness protections to our local human rights ordinance,” James said. The Fairness Campaign will meet on Sept. 14 to discuss their petitions further. The petitions will be sent to Ken-

tucky’s legislature. Several campus organizations coordinate with the Fairness Campaign, said James. “WKU has many organizations that cooperate with us like the Social Justice Coalition and the Student Identity Outreach. They help out a lot,” she said. Memphis freshman Arian Ware said although he is not affiliated with the Fairness Campaign, he is supportive of

the cause. “Not only am I supportive of the Fairness Campaign’s beliefs and goals, but I am so proud of how much effort they put into what they believe in,” Ware said. “I am glad I chose to attend Western because the people here are so openminded, and the people of Bowling Green and Western both know what they want and do all they can to get it done.”

Students experience record internet outage BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU Several students may have experienced a state of panic as they quickly discovered their Blackboard quiz was no longer responsive. Students and faculty encountered issues Tuesday night as a network outage affected WKU’s campus. Chief Information Technology Officer Gordon Johnson sent an email to faculty and staff Wednesday morning to explain what had happened. According to the email, the network outage began at approximately 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and lasted until 2 a.m. the following day. “Our primary and secondary Domain Name Servers (DNS) experienced an unusual condition simultaneously that brought them down,” Johnson said in the email. Johnson went on to explain that while the rest of network infrastructure was still operational, without DNS to translate domain names to IP addresses of servers and other components, no network traffic could be routed. “So the entire network was essentially down and unreachable both from on campus and off campus,” he said. He said the condition that brought the DNS down was

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so obscure it needed to be escalated to the top engineering level of the vendor who supplies WKU’s DNS appliances—Infoblox. WKU brought in Infoblox DNS over a year ago for their industrial strength and built-in redundancies. “They can handle lots of traffic without any degrada-

tion in performance,” Johnson said. The problem that occurred, Johnson stressed, was statistically rare. The redundancies of the two systems meant that if one suffered a physical attack and went offline, the second would take over without incident. This particular issue was

a combination of an internal software problem and a burst of outside traffic that caused the systems to behave erratically; both DNS went down at the same time. IT technicians are still investigating exactly what caused the breakdown. They were able to resolve the incident with the joint effort of Infoblox and WKU’s own IT department. “Basically, the way we fixed it was with the help of Infoblox. They identified configuration settings whose results were creating problems, and based on their recommendation,

we changed those, and this seemed to pretty largely fix the problem,” Johnson said. Johnson said this incident was one of the largest in over a decade. “I’ve been here 26-plus years, and I do not remember an outage that long over the past 10 years,” he said. He added that technicians are working to ensure sure such an event doesn’t happen again. “We’re spending whatever amount of time it takes to mitigate this and prevent it from happening again,” Johnson said.

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Information Technology releases new student/faculty portal BY TOMMY SULLIVAN HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

On Sept. 8, WKU’s Information Technology Division released myWKU, a mobile-friendly portal that allows students, faculty and staff to access their WKU accounts from one location. Users can go to myWKU for most of the content they need daily. “You don’t have to re-login,” said Chief Information Technology Officer Gordon Johnson. “This saves the user’s time.” IT is proud myWKU’s design is userfriendly because mobile devices have

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Continued from FRONT President Gary Ransdell made with Hanban, a branch of the Chinese Ministry of Education. According to Richey, the Board of Regents approved the contract without a copy of the contract provided. The project was signed on Dec. 6,

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terms, and also praised Rogers for remaining objective on the case and taking it from solely a legal perspective. “You can relate it back to what’s going on now … and understand what it means in a real life application,” Hurt said. Hurt said he believes Davis’s case has turned into a religious issue, when in

become much more popular on campus, said Eric Wolfe, the director of enterprise applications and programming. “We want it to reach out to more people,” he said. Wolfe and his team began to design myWKU in March. They used analytics from the old portal to determine its most popular aspects and researched portals from other universities. Nearly every department within the division played a role in developing myWKU, said Wolfe. The new portal will not remove TopNet, TopperMail, Blackboard, iWKU or any other preexisting pro-

gram; rather, it places them in the same webpage. myWKU replaces Luminous, WKU’s previous portal. For the past 10 years, Luminous was used mainly by faculty and staff though students also had access to it. “We want to expand the base for students,” said Johnson. Ellucian, a higher-education software company, charged WKU $50,000 per year to use Luminous, so creating myWKU has helped balance IT’s budget. myWKU is not only more cost effective but also more customizable than Luminous. “We hope to be able to improve it and

add things to it,” said Johnson. Because myWKU is not a vendor system, students will have more input in how it works after IT follows up its release with student surveys about the product. “We can make it what users want it to be,” said Johnson. In fact, students have already had an effect on myWKU. To create the portal, Wolfe and his team surveyed students before the design process began. “We try to provide what people are wanting,” said Wolfe. “When we put things out, we strive to continually improve them.”

2014, after Hanban offered $1.5 million for construction of the building. WKU will have to match the $1.5 million that Hanban is contributing and cover maintenance and operation costs. This is a 50-year, non-negotiable contract. “I understand the concerns that were brought up,” said Richey. “It’s definitely one sided.”

To repurpose the building, WKU would have to receive authorization form the Chinese government, Richey said. The University Senate unanimously supported a resolution by the Senate Executive Committee that urged Ransdell and the administration to revisit the contract. “The faculty opposes the construc-

tion of the Confucius Institute,” said Richey. Richey believes it’s a good idea for the senate to wait before they make any final decisions so they can hear both sides of the story. “I’m very firm that my opinion won’t change, and there aren’t too many positives to say about the contract as it is now,” said Richey.

fact it is a legal issue. “She wasn’t in jail because she was a Christian, she was in jail for not doing her job,” he said. Rogers said much classroom discussion surrounded the concept of the rule of law. Rule of law is an important concept that began in the 1801 Marbury v. Madison case, he said. According to the American Bar Association’s publication “Commemorat-

ing the 200th Anniversary of Marbury v. Madison: The Supreme Court’s First Great Case,” the rule of law means “that people will obey the decision of the court, even when the ‘court’ is one judge holding court in a schoolroom … when a court decides a case, its order will be obeyed by the people in the case even if they don’t like the decision.” Rogers stressed how we still have the rule of law and how it is one of the

principles our country was founded on. He offered an example: If a state circuit judge doesn’t agree with the death penalty, he has an obligation to impose the penalty even if he does not agree with it. “I think it’s important for our way of life that government officials follow the rule of law, and when that doesn’t happen, things can devolve into anarchy,” Rogers said.

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• Newburgh, Indiana, freshman Dylan Kandal on Sept. 4 was arrested and charged with alcohol intoxication, fleeing and evading and resisting arrest on the PFT Service Drive. • Lafayette, Louisiana, freshman Allyson Cieslak on Sept. 5 was cited for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in Bemis Lawrence Hall. • Freshmen Cornelius Langston and Der’Quione Mobley, both of Louisville, on Sept. 7 were arrested and charged with the trafficking of a controlled substance within 1000 feet of a school outside of Hugh Poland Hall. Mobley is a redshirt freshman.

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Society renders topics too taboo to discuss in an open manner. As times change and generations progress, the degree to which these topics are deemed taboo also changes. Sex used to be seen as so offensive that married couples on television would sleep in different beds. Now movies deal with it much more

openly. Similarly, the way people talk about suicide has also changed over the years. Suicide can be a touchy subject. Wanting to commit suicide can stem from severe or situational depression, anxiety disorders and a plethora of other psychological issues. According to the American Association of Suicidology, in 2013 an average of one person committed suicide every 12.8 minutes, leading to 41,149 deaths that year alone. Suicide not only takes the lives of innocent individuals but also debilitates family and friends. To say that only the 41,149 people who took their lives were affected by suicide would be an under-

statement. The effects of suicide expand far beyond personal affiliations. Entire schools and towns suffer from the loss of one student. Suicide has gained a reputation of being poetic, beautiful and even romantic. The romanticization of depression and other debilitating mental ailments is one of the reasons suicide is promoted within our generation. Tumblr, Twitter and occasionally Facebook endorse the poetic nature of how beautiful a suicide can be. The pain and suffering that people endure on the road to taking their own lives has been altered from a painful choice to a means of proving emotional depth.

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Depression is not a state of beauty. This comes from someone with a history of situational depression: No one wants to feel emotionally vacant. No one wants to adopt apathy as a way of life. Suicide is not beautiful; suicide is hideous. It is a tragedy that victimizes people worldwide, and we need to treat it as such. There are several sites online you can access to learn about signs of suicide. There are also a variety of resources on campus, such as the Counseling and Testing Center, which can assist you if you struggle with suicidal thoughts or depression.

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Local resident celebrates 100th birthday BY ANDREW HENDERSON HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU From the outside, 1701 Chestnut St. appears to be an older two-story home with an expansive yard and a noticeable brick chimney. Those invited into the home, however, will see a woman who has survived a century. Kathryn Gilbert, a lifelong Bowling Green native, celebrated her 100th birthday on Aug. 30. She is a mother, grandmother, breast cancer survivor, dancer and businesswoman. “I’ve done nearly everything in business,” Gilbert said. Glenda White, Gilbert’s daughter and Bowling Green native, said her mother

was named Business Woman of the Year in 1950. The Park City Daily News wrote a story about Gilbert’s accomplishments that was published May 28, 1950. The story, “Women in Business,” was written by Linda Listens. Gilbert graduated from the Training School in 1934 and then attended the Business University from 1937 until 1939. Gilbert said she might have attended WKU, but at the time it was mainly a teachers college, and she had no desire to teach. “I’m a good organizer, and I’m a good manager, and I had a daddy that (sic) was that way that taught me how,” Gilbert said. In 1939, she landed her first job with the Agricultural Conservation Associ-

ation. Then, in 1942, Gilbert said she’d “like to do her bit for defense” as World War II was being waged overseas. She traveled to Louisville, applied for a position in the Curtiss-Wright Corporation defense plant and landed a job. Later that year, her father got her a “regular he-man’s job” as a relief clerk from Bowling Green to Decatur, Alabama, in the Louisville and Nashville Railroad’s freight department. She was the second woman to work in the local freight office. “I love business of all kinds,” Gilbert said. Despite Gilbert’s long, rich history in business, she said being the secretary of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce was her greatest

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Kathryn Gilbert celebrated her 100th birthday on Aug. 30. Gilbert, the daughter of an established businessman, still owns retail property on Broadway Avenue. "I love business," Gilbert said. "The most important thing is to be a good manager—of people, of your business." LEANORA BENKATO/HERALD

Newgrass star Sam Bush returns to Bowling Green BY ANDREW CRITCHELOW HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU

Bluegrass innovator and Bowling Green native Sam Bush will be visiting his hometown this weekend for a series of events that will have local music fans rejoicing. Bush will take part in a sold-out performance on Saturday at Van Meter Hall as part of WKU’s Cultural Enhancement Series. On Friday, there will be a screening of a documentary film about his life entitled “Revival: The Sam Bush Story” at the SKyPAC in downtown Bowling Green. Born in Bowling Green in 1952, Bush developed an approach to playing bluegrass music early on that drew influences from genres such as rock, funk and reggae. Often considered the “father of newgrass,” Bush showcased this progressive version of bluegrass in the ‘70s and ‘80s with his band New Grass Revival. Bush has since won three Grammy Awards and has played with notable musicians such as Doc Watson, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. Brent Bjorkman, curator of the Cultural Enhancement Series, said the performance on Saturday will bring in

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Toppers Tour Around the World: Florida Keys BY SHELBY BRUCE HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU Over the next several weeks, the Herald will be publishing stories about the summer adventures WKU students have taken around the globe. For many college students, summer entails a dull, repetitive schedule of working, sleeping, hanging out and counting down the days until they return to the Hill. But Ali Boyd, an intern for the Islamorada Dive Center in Islamorada, Florida, spent her summer scuba diving 100-foot-long shipwrecks, being filmed by an Emmy Award-winning videographer and earning her Divemaster certification. “The scariest part was knowing that people’s lives were in my hands and at any second they could make a mistake, and that would be it for them,” Ali Boyd, a junior from Versailles, said. Boyd was offered the opportunity to complete a three-month-long internJunior Ali Boyd, of Versailles, spent three months in the Florida Keys this summer during ship for IDC after visiting the shop during winter break last year. Her father, a scuba diving internship with Islamorada Dive Center. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ALI Terry Boyd, is a diver of 52 years and BOYD

hails from Anna, Illinois. He docks his boat every winter at a marina near IDC. “She came in the store with her dad, who also dives with us,” Doug Grubb, an instructor for IDC, said. “Once we met her, we brought up the internship to her that we offer every year because we thought she would be the perfect candidate.” Directly after finishing her last final of the spring 2015 semester, Boyd packed her bags and headed to the Florida Keys. During her first month, Boyd spent much of her time working for the dive shop and studying to receive the five certifications that qualify a Divemaster. A Divemaster does not need guidance or assistance from anyone else and can lead a group of divers in the water alone, Ali Boyd said. Attaining Divemaster status requires five certifications: Open Water, which grants certification to anyone who is interested in diving; Advanced Open Water, which allows a diver to go to deeper depths; Rescue Course; Emer-

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WKU PBS: a hidden gem in the broadcasting department BY KALEE CHISM HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU At WKU, a student can get real-world, broadcast experience working on campus. The WKU PBS station, located at the Academic Complex, is a station with a massive percentage of student workers and volunteers. According to the WKU website on public broadcasting, WKU PBS is a public television station broadcasting “informative, educational, and culturally diverse television programs.” Channel 24 is brought to over 250,000 people in Kentucky and is carried by over 20 cable systems. WKU PBS is made up of many student workers and volunteers and provides the opportunity to learn about television production on campus and in a college environment. “In production there are 16 student employees. There are usually between three to seven student volunteers,” David Brinkley, director of public broadcasting, said. “Operation wide, though, we usually staff between 20-25 students. There are currently 21 students on the paid staff.” WKU PBS is flexible with student employees’ hours to help them balance schoolwork and their work at the station. Jelisa Chatman, a senior from Franklin, has had multiple jobs at the PBS station and believes they are very un-

GILBERT Continued from LIFE accomplishment. White agreed with her sentiments. “Everybody knows what [the Chamber of Commerce] is, and she started it and got it going so much that they had to hire other people,” White said. Gilbert started her position as secretary in 1945 and was there until 1953. Gilbert reminisced about the small population of Bowling Green when she served as secretary, estimating about

SAM BUSH Continued from LIFE a large array of people. “I think it’s going to be a very diverse audience,” Bjorkman said. “I think it’s going to bring people to campus who probably don’t come to campus very often.” Since its beginning in 1997, the Cultural Enhancement Series has brought many prominent artists, musicians, dancers, writers and public speakers to WKU over the years. On the musical

TRAVEL Continued from LIFE gency First Responder; and Divemaster. “Each course takes a week or two to complete, so I did that the first month and a half that I was there,” Ali Boyd said. Getting each certification is similar to taking a course. It requires studying, reading textbooks and taking tests. However, scuba students are also required to do skills training in the training pool and ocean. Boyd still remembers the day she was finally awarded her Divemaster certification—the day all her hard work paid off. “When I was docking the boat, [Doug] walked [up] with a sign with my Divemaster number on it because every Divemaster gets a six-digit number, and that’s yours—that’s how people recognize you,” Ali Boyd said. “So he

derstanding when it comes to making her work schedule. “PBS understands that school comes first, and they won't overwork you if they know you're having a hard time in class,” Chatman said. Student workers at WKU PBS begin as volunteers. The station then gives these students opportunities to work their way up to getting on the payroll. Jordan Upton, the Student Crew chief and a junior from Bowling Green, said the PBS station has a system that works for both students and employees. “All who apply start off as unpaid volunteers at the station. They are trained for our workflow and equipment and participate in station events, but they do not have the responsibilities of the paid crew,” Upton said. “Once positions open up, the volunteers who have put in the most effort are hired and get paid $8 per hour.” Working at WKU PBS is not only a way to make connections, but also a way to make life-long friends, according to Chatman. “The best part about working at PBS is that we are a huge family. I don't consider the kids there as my co-workers,” Chatman said. “They truly are some of my best friends that I know I'll keep in touch with no matter where we are. I'm so grateful to have worked with them for the past three years.” Joe Gibbs, a former WKU PBS em-

ployee, claims his experience at the station has helped him grow in his field and prepare for the real world. “I wouldn’t trade the experiences I had at PBS for anything,” Gibbs said. “I would without a doubt recommend anyone who is pursuing a degree in broadcasting from WKU to at least volunteer for a semester. I’d also like to mention that through working at WKU PBS, I was given opportunities to work freelance for companies like ESPN,

CBS and the Big Ten Network.” According to Upton, working at a television station is a way for students to make connections, learn the ropes and get their name out there. Upton also claims it is one of the best jobs on campus. “It is the only job I know of that gives you all that you put into it. If you work tirelessly, seek opportunity and learn from your mistakes, it is the best job in the world for a college student,” Upton said.

12,000 residents. She believes Bowling Green will continue to expand and WKU will help with the expansion. “It’s growing, and it’s still going to grow more, but I started it rolling,” Gilbert said. Gilbert’s age has not prevented her from staying proactive in her health and business skills. She said reading keeps her mind active, and her morning cycling keeps her body active. Gilbert said even now she could handle business if she needed to. “Well, I tried all my life to eat right and

do right so I would live to be of old age, and here I am still truckin’,” Gilbert said. Aside from being a businesswoman, Gilbert was also a dancer and won dancing contests at the Business University. She said her favorite form of dance is ballroom dancing. Just two months ago, she danced at her greatnephew’s wedding. “Someone asked her to dance, and she got up and danced. I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, she’s going to fall,’ but she got up and danced, and that was in July,” White said. Reflecting back, Gilbert said many of life’s

truths and secrets came down to being good at business and treating others fairly. “You’ve got to be a good manager… [of] your money and everything else,” Gilbert said. “If you can’t manage, you can’t do anything.” Marrying a good husband—one who doesn’t drink or carouse, she added— having faith, going to church, loving everybody and treating them all the same is how she’s had a good life for a full century. “I love life, and life’s good to me because I’m good to life,” Gilbert said.

spectrum, some of the performers who have taken part in the series include Doc Watson, Wynton Marsalis and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. A longtime admirer of Bush’s music, Bjorkman said WKU students can learn much from attending the performance. “He’s touched so many people and he’s allowed so many genres of music to touch him,” Bjorkman said. “He paved his own road but has so much reverence for the old stuff.” Paul Priest, bassist for Kentucky band

Jericho Woods and an accomplished bluegrass musician in his own right, said Sam Bush is a powerful influence on Priest and his peers. “I hear Sam in so many Kentucky musicians, even if they don’t realize it,” Priest said. “Newgrass is an obvious influence on modern Americana bands.” Zac Bush, the education director at SKyPAC, also believes Sam Bush’s influence on contemporary music is undeniable. “I think that a lot of people don’t real-

ize the kind of influence he had around the world,” Bush said. “He truly is the father of an entire genre.” Along with the showing of “Revival: The Sam Bush Story,” the SKyPAC will also be hosting a Q&A with Sam Bush and producers of the film. Zac Bush said this will be a great opportunity for curious local fans. “I’m sure [Sam Bush’s] biggest fans live right here in Bowling Green, and the chance for them to talk to him and ask whatever they’d like is really cool,” Zac Bush said.

came over holding up the sign hooting and hollering, so that was fun.” After receiving her Divemaster certification, Boyd and a few others decided to dive down into the second-largest intensionally sunk artificial reef, a wreck called the Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, as a celebration of her accomplishment. “It was 145 feet deep. That’s the deepest I have ever gone, so it was cool to hit that limit,” Ali Boyd said. Another highlight of Boyd’s trip was when she was given the opportunity to work with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Frazier Nivens, also a diver at IDC, who was creating the video for the official Florida Keys website. Nivens needed two scuba diving models for underwater footage, and Boyd was eager to participate. During her shoot with Nivens, Boyd dove to Alligator Reef, a shipwreck in the Florida Keys. Nivens was able to shoot

video of Boyd inside of a bait ball, which is a large number of small fish tightly packed into a spherical formation. “She really hit the jackpot with this summer,” said Terry Boyd. Terry Boyd, who passed down his love of diving to his daughter, has had many years of experience with the sport. He has had his instructor license since 1974. Since then, he has done three Shark Week specials for the Discovery Channel and worked as an underwater bodyguard for a well-known photographer whose name was asked to be kept anonymous. Terry Boyd has experience scuba diving in the Caribbean, Costa Rica, the West Indies and other exotic locations. To say diving is a hobby for Ali and Terry Boyd would be an understatement. This sport is a common passion

they have been able to enjoy together. “It’s always been our thing,” said Ali Boyd. She is eager to return to IDC and the Florida Keys this winter. She has had a great support system within her immediate family and IDC family through this whole experience, she said. “My hopes and desires are for her to become an instructor because she is a great teacher,” Grubb said. “No matter what she does in life, my hope is for her to be successful.” Although Ali Boyd doesn’t know exactly what she wants to do with her major—she’s studying corporate and organizational communications—she hopes the ocean will be involved. “The ocean is always going to be a big part [of my life.] I’ve always wanted to do something with it,” she said. “I love it and am already having withdrawals right now.”

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Mentality key to success in Georgia road swing BY HUNTER FRINT HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU After a long game against Valparaiso resulted in a 2-2 tie this past Sunday, the Lady Topper soccer team will travel to Georgia to play Mercer and Georgia State this weekend. The match against Mercer will take place in Macon, Georgia, on Friday, marking the second meeting of the two teams in program history. The Bears traveled to Bowling Green last year, the first season the Lady Toppers were members of the C-USA. WKU won 1-0. “Mercer is another team that’s won the Southern Conference last year and went to the NCAA Tournament,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “They’re definitely a quality squad, and they’ve got good

athletes.” While Neidell recognizes his squad has potential, he noted the challenges Mercer will pose. “They’ve Next game got speed. friday, September 11 They’ve 6 p.m. got techVS. Mercer nical play@ Bear Field ers,” Neidell said. “We’re just going to be in for another great match.” The Lady Toppers will then head to Atlanta to face the Panthers of Georgia State on Sunday. Georgia State is undefeated so far in 2015. The Panthers recently played a game against Tennessee Tech that ended with almost identical results as the WKU v. Valpo match: double overtime and an ending in draw. “They’re undefeated, so that

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this allowed the Lady Tops to win 2513. Lucas had 14 more assists in the second set, which brought her total to 24 of the team’s 26 assists going into the third set. “I love Diddle; I love the atmosphere. It’s so much easier to play at home,” said Langenkamp. WKU swept Austin Peay with victory in the third set while allowing the Governors to tally more points than they did all night. The Lady Tops didn’t control the third set as tightly as the first two. With a 25-17 victory and a nightly low .286 team hitting percentage, Jessica Lucas came through with 11 assists,

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standards to qualify in both the 100-meter and 200-meter events. Although no one from Montserrat met these qualifications, Morris’s time was the best on the island, so he was able to compete. While he entered as an unqualified

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Continued from SPORTS in all 18 contests. Chua’s other accomplishments during her freshmen year include scoring a game-winner against Evansville and generating assists in games against Middle Tennessee and Southern Miss. She was tied for most shots by a freshman with 18 shots and six shots on goal. That sort of attacking output from a freshman midfielder caught the eye of Head Coach Jason Neidell last season and is a major reason Chua’s minutes played are third highest on the team in the current campaign. “Hannah’s a really, really quick player and just has a nose for the ball. She’s really smooth and composed on the ball,” Neidell said. “She likes to attack, as you see, down the middle of the field. She’s a really crafty player on the dribble.” Not everything Neidell likes about Chua comes in the form of physical attributes, though. “She also brings some intangibles; she’s so coachable,” Neidell said. “She’s like a sponge. Everything you give her she just sucks in and learns from. She’s

presents a challenge in and of itself. They’re a team that keeps finding ways to win soccer games,” Neidell said. Neidell believes the key to victory in Atlanta is mentality. “I think we want to continue to develop that play to win mentality,” Neidell said. “I think that’s going to be a big challenge for us.” The Lady Toppers have faced several formidable opponents this season, and this weekend will be no different. From conference winners and league champions to undefeated teams, WKU has had to fight for the wins and accomplishments it has earned so far. “We’ve built a schedule that is really almost a hellacious schedule,” Neidell said. “We’ve got to learn to compete day in and day out to prepare ourselves for conference.”

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and Haley Bodway tacked on five more kills to bring her night’s total to 12. “It’s tough when you win by a good margin in those first two sets; it’s difficult to keep your focus,” Hudson said. “I thought we let our foot off the gas there in the end, but luckily we were able to close it out.” While the Lady Toppers left the night with their fourth sweep of the season, there are still a few things Hudson thinks his team needs to target to move forward. “We are still just trying to catch a little bit of a rhythm offensively. We’re getting some production offensively, but I would not say we are in a rhythm,” Hudson said. “Tomorrow at practice, that will be the focus again.”

He even singled out some players he wants to work with in preparation for this weekend. “You know I got (sic) to find a way to get Sydney Engle started. That’s my biggest concern right now,” Hudson said. “She’s really struggling right now on the offensive side. Tomorrow’s practice will be dedicated to trying to find that rhythm.” Looking forward to this weekend, WKU is hosting Missouri State and Northwestern on Friday and Furman on Saturday as part of the Holiday Inn University Plaza Invitational. “You know in the loss against Dayton, we had played a game against a very good SIU team and then had to play Dayton just a few hours later, which

I think posed some challenges to the girls,” said Hudson. This stacking of opposition did not work in the Lady Toppers’ favor in Illinois, and the concern is the same for the Lady Toppers’ double-header on Friday. “I’m concerned about that again,” Hudson said. “We play a fantastic Missouri State team on Friday and then have to play a Big Ten team in Northwestern later that day.” The first game on Friday is set to start at 1 p.m. against Missouri State, and the second contest is set to begin at 7 p.m. against Northwestern. The Lady Toppers will round out the tournament with a match against Furman at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

athlete, Morris did earn the standards needed to be a qualified athlete before the world championships took place by competing in the NACAC Conference in San Juan, Costa Rica. There he ran personal bests: a national record of 20.45 seconds in the 200-meter and a national record of 10.23 seconds in the 100-meter. Competing in Costa Rica and a few other international meets al-

lowed Morris to feel what this specific meet would be like. Unfortunately, Morris fell ill close to race time. “I was quite sick and got a little bit better before my race. On the day of my race, I was fairly alright, but after [the race] I just got more sick.” Morris said. Morris is also unique to the WKU

team in that he reached out to Head Coach Jenkins for recruitment rather than being approached by the coach. “People don’t realize the amount of hard work, dedication and discipline that goes into preparing,” Morris said. "It’s been exciting to represent WKU and to compete against the best in the world.”

got a great, positive attitude.” Even though the 2015 season is still young, Chua has begun to find success similar to last season’s. So far, she has notched a goal and an assist off four shots (three on goal). Chua scored the first goal of the 2015 season in the season opener against UT Martin. Her assist was to WKU midfielder Haley Baldridge in the fourth game of the season against Stephen F. Austin in the Battle on the Bayou. The assist helped WKU squeeze in a 1-0 win. As Chua begins to take roots as a mainstay in the WKU defense—unmatched since the likes of Chrissy Tchoula and Sidney Sissler—questions of soccer after college surface. “If the opportunity presented itself, I probably would,” Chua said of pursuing soccer after college. “It hadn’t even crossed my mind before, but I guess only time will tell. We’ll see.” Teammates and the coaching staff both speak of the positivity Chua brings to the program. “Hannah’s got a really infectious smile. She’s just a fun person to be around. She’s one of the most likable kids on the team for sure,” said Neidell.

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the Lady Tops’ assists in the first set. “I’ve had to get my timing down, adjusting to how they set the ball, but it has kinda just started to click,” said Anderson. “I think the crowd really gave us more energy. It can get tough without the support in the stands.” The second set started a bit slow. The first timeout left the score 11-8 in favor of the Lady Toppers. Coming out of the break, senior middle hitter Noelle Langenkamp took over. She tallied a team-high .545 hitting percentage with seven kills off 11 attempts at the end of the second set;

One of WKU’s track athletes, Julius Morris, has returned to the Hill after placing fifth in his heat in the 2015 IAAF World Championships held in Beijing. Morris was competing in Beijing while representing his home nation of Montserrat. Montserrat is a small Caribbean island in the British West Indies where, according to Morris, there are not many sprinters. Morris said he held the fastest time on the island in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and therefore was selected to represent his country in the world championships. While Morris didn’t return from China with any hardware, the experience and caliber of competition present at the world championships is something Erik Jenkins, WKU’s head coach of track and field and crosscountry, is excited for his athletes to encounter. “Other than the Olympic championships, this is the biggest meet in the world,” Jenkins said. Accordingly, Morris underwent intense physical training to prepare for the competition’s components. “There was a lot of rigorous training, proper eating habits and making sure that I get the adequate amount of rest that I had to remember in order to be able to go out and execute,” Morris said. “It takes a lot of commitment.” The process to enter world championships was different for Morris partially due to the sport’s lack of popularity. He entered competition as an unqualified athlete. Each athlete must meet certain entry

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after opening the 2015 season with six away games—the team was jubilant in its home arena. “There’s no doubt that our girls feed off this great crowd, and it was exciting to be in Diddle for that reason,” said Hudson. The Lady Tops came out swinging on their home court. With a commanding 25-13 win in the first set, standout freshman Rachel Anderson was hitting a team-high .500 with four kills off eight attempts. It was also business as usual for sophomore preseason all C-USA setter Jessica Lucas. Lucas tallied all 10 of

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Chua flourishes in midfield, solidifies spot in WKU attack BY HUNTER FRINT HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU Sophomore Hannah Chua has been a major asset to the Lady Topper soccer program in 2015. She has started in all five of WKU’s games so far this campaign. She has clocked 387 minutes on the pitch—the third most of any Lady Topper behind senior defender Chandler Clark’s team-leading 456 and junior midfielder Haley Baldridge’s 398. Chua’s journey to becoming such a valued asset to the team begins much farther away from Bowling Green than most other Lady Toppers. Her trek to the Hill brought the midfielder across the country, uprooting her from her hometown of Claremont, California, and placing her over 2,000 miles away in Bowling Green. Being so far away from home has brought out Chua’s passion and appreciation for her roots in California. And while Bowling Green might not be a city in Chua’s long-term life plan, she said it is a perfect fit for her college career.

“From the beginning, I knew I wanted to live in California in the long term, so I kind of wanted four years of a new experience and to just get out and experience something else,” Chua said. “So I got recruited by [WKU] and it just ended up being the best fit. I’ve absolutely loved it.” At Claremont High School, Chua was a four-year starter and proved an integral part of her high school’s team both as a goal scorer and distributor, racking up over 20 goals and 20 assists. Following a highly successful prep career with the Arsenal FC and Legends FC in California, Chua signed her national letter of intent to attend WKU. In 2013, Chua led the Legends FC team to acquire a 5-11 record in the United States Soccer Association National League. With these previous experiences under her belt, Chua said the challenges presented at WKU and her surrounding team and staff have allowed her to flourish in the midfield at WKU. “This program is awesome. I think that our coaches and all

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