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TUESDAY , OCTOBER 1, 2013 • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY • WKUHERALD.COM • VOLUME 89 NO. 11

Psychology dept. split approved by regents

BY TREY CRUMBIE NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM A new academic department could be created in the near future, after approval at the Board of Regents committee meeting Friday.

Pending Board of Regents approval in October, the Department of Psychology will be split into two separate departments with the creation of a Psychological Sciences Department.

The new department would be housed in the Ogden College of Science and Engineering, apart from the current PsyMeeting events chology departApproved creation ment located of Psychological in the College Sciences of Educational Department and Behavioral Sciences.

Approved creation Part of the of Chinese and information Arabic Major and pertaining to Minor the department split presented New employment at the Board of agreement for Regents meetDeborah Wilkins ing states that Amy Tudor contract numerous facapproved ulty members in the Department of Psychology have special expertise in areas of psychology that are more aligned with the sciences of Ogden.

Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, said the curriculum would change if the departments were to split.

“Right now the degree in psychology is a B.A., there is no B.S. degree,” Emslie said. “These will be things that basically the faculty will work out.”

If approved at the Oct. 25 Board of Regents meeting, the new department would be established Nov. 1 of this year. The total cost of the new department is estimated at around $50,000, to be used to help pay for a new department head and SEE REGENTS PAGE 2

Desiree Young (center) dances alongside group members Brittany Johnson (left) and Dixie Cacho (right) at the International Festival. The women performed an Afro-Caribbean style of dance. KATIE MCLEAN/HERALD

International

Love Celebration of culture at International Festival

BY TREY CRUMBIE & MACKENZIE MATHEWS NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

People from countries far and wide gathered together in Circus Square Park to celebrate the world community during the annual International Festival on Saturday.

Throughout the day, people were exposed to different aspects of several cultures including at-

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tire, food, basic information and physical objects pertaining to a particular country.

At the festival, travel guides were given out at the information booth. As a person visited a booth, they could collect stamps or other trinkets to show that they have been to that particular booth.

During the festival, music and dances hailing from different cultures were performed on several stages.

One of the performers at the festival was Feckless Fear Dearg, an Irish Pub band formed in Bowling Green. This was the band’s second time performing in the festival.

Zach Daugherty, who performs lead vocals and guitar for the band, said he formed the band because of a lack of Celtic music.

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Alum takes road less traveled in promoting Commonwealth

BY ANNA ROEDERER LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM By night Cory Ramsey works as a welder, but by day he puts on his forest green fedora and is an explorer of Kentucky’s unknown places. Life has led Ramsey on a different path than the one he imagined for himself while in college.

“In college I didn’t travel at all,” he said. “I would not leave town. I used to think that Barren River was too far.”

What began as a hiking adventure due to a layoff in 2009 has now led Ramsey, a 2004 WKU graduate, on road trips to places in Kentucky such as Frosty Freeze, Do Stop, and Lickskillet.

“My goal is to drive every mile of road in Kentucky, Ramsey said. “It will take the rest of my life.”

His passion has turned into a second job as Ramsey writes for state tourism as well and appears monthly on Bowling Green’s WBKO television station. He is sponsored by businesses such as local Morris Jewelry.

Ramsey believes that Kentucky is much more than the tourism industry promoted cities of Louisville and Lexington, and he recently founded Map Dot, Kentucky, to highlight Kentucky’s towns off the beaten track. He wants to be a voice for the people who normally do SEE RAMSEY PAGE 2

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Cory Ramsey looks at a map in Fountain Run before heading to his next destination in Bugtussle while working on his project Map Dot, Kentucky.

Many of the towns he visits, including Bugtussle, can only be reached by back roads where he says his GPS unit gets confused.

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Sig Eps mourn brother killed in accident

BY JACKSON FRENCH NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

On Saturday night, members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity gathered in the Valley to mourn the passing of one of their pledge brothers.

Fordsville freshman and Sig Ep pledge Cory Beavin died the night of Sept. 27 in a car accident in his hometown.

Fraternity members and other friends of Beavin assembled at an intersection of sidewalks in front of McCormack Hall, many of them holding lit candlesticks.

Ashland freshman Caitlin Brown, one of Beavin’s friends, spoke to the crowd, inviting members of Sig Ep to speak and share their favorite memories of Beavin.

Brown said little is known yet about the circumstances of Beavin’s death.

“We don’t know many details,” she said. “We don’t know if he was with friends or if he was the one driving. We don’t know if he was under the influence of any sort."

During the vigil, a radio placed on a bench played music from the 2012 movie adaptation of "Les Miserables."

Brown said the use of the movie’s soundtrack had two meanings.

“He loved that movie and he loved France,” she said. “He was obsessed

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The Board also approved a contract for softball coach Amy Tudor and a new employment agreement for Deborah Wilkins, general counsel and chief of staff.

Todd Stewart, athletic director, said the contract was mostly just a formality.

“The Amy Tudor contract really just formalizes what Tyra Perry’s compensation was,” Stewart said. “The only differ-

with it.”

She said the soundtrack was also played because of a particular memory it brings to her mind.

“One of the last memories that me and three other friends of his had together is, we were in his car blasting music from 'Les Mis' and one of our friends hated it and we were all just singing to him,” she said. “It was just one of the last memories we had together.”

Caldwell County freshman Nathan Wilson was one of Beavin’s friends, and said the two met each other in the McCormack lobby after communicating via Twitter.

“I could tell that we was (sic) going to be friends,” he said. “We laughed at the same jokes. As screwed as my sense of humor is, it was weird to find someone who could laugh at the same stuff.

“This is the first time I’ve lost anybody in my life. I know I’ve only known him for a month, but he became one of my closest friends on campus.”

During the vigil, the mourners walked around the building. After they returned to the area in front of the building, Andrew Cusick, a 2011 WKU graduate and Sig Ep alum, led the fraternity members in singing Alabama’s "Dixieland Delight."

When the singing was over, the

WKU students gather for a candle light vigil outside of McCormack Hall for Cory Beavin on Saturday, Sept. 28.

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mourners were invited to write messages on a piece of poster board that will be displayed at the funeral, or on notecards that were then affixed to a small crucifix.

Cusick said the fraternity wanted an alumni presence at the vigil. He said Sig Ep wants people to know that even though not everyone in the fraternity knew Beavin, they were there to support their chapter and his family.

“I personally did not know Cory but you can see that with the guys that we have assembled tonight…we have a love for each other that is eternal,” Cu-

ence now is that Amy has some and approved an Internal Auincentives in her contract, but dit Plan that would create a senior auditor position within there’s also buyout too.” the university.

In the Wilkins emAnn Mead, senior ployment agreement, vice president for fiWilkins will continue to nance and administraserve as general counsel tion, said the position until June 2017. Howevwould be responsible er, as part of the agreefor reviewing finance ment, WKU retains the related affairs for deright to reassign Wilkins partments on campus, to another position including athletics and on main campus with Emslie campus services and the exact same pay of Provost facilities. her current position, “We evaluated the at $142,272. If Wilkins refuses the reassignment, she need to know where we are going, but we really need somecan be fired by the university.

The board also discussed one in house,” Mead said.

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“There were no purveyors of Celtic music around so I decided to fill the void,” Daugherty said.

Daugherty said the international festival allowed for others to enjoy different things about different cultures.

“I think it’s great,” Daugherty said.

“Just being able to see everybody come out and celebrate their own culture."

Another group that performed was the Chinese Music Club, a group at WKU specializing in music from China.

Cincinnati junior Kelli Hogue, president of the Chinese Music Club, said she enjoyed the international festival because of the diversity.

“I think the international festival is great because you get this little small town in Kentucky, but you get to try stuff from all over the world,” Hogue said. “I wish that my own community had something like this.”

The Office of International Programs was one of the festival’s spon-

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not receive attention.

“I’m kind of like an ambassador, a champion of the cause for the folks,” he said.

Sometimes Ramsey’s map dots might be a town with only a closed general store like Bugtussle, but it is the winding journey through one lane roads and the stops along the way that matter.

“If you only drive the highways and parkways, you miss Kentucky,” Ramsey said.

While off the highway, Ramsey got a taste of life from Barry and Becky Kaufmann, owners of Main Street Grocery and Hardware in Fountain Run. Sitting in his Kentucky crafted rocker, Barry listened as Becky expressed her excitement for the new drink in town.

“We’re excited to have [Ale 8],” Becky said. “It’s something different.

The one room general store filled with shelves of food and walls covered in Bible verse signs is life for the Kaufmanns. Ramsey said he enjoys unearthing these small ma and pop style operations.

“People live in their own little worlds and this is theirs,” Ramsey said.

By meeting with residents like the

sors. They held a booth in order to promote students’ opportunity to experience the world through Study Abroad programs.

One of their representatives, Somerset senior Lendee Sanchez, said that her experience studying abroad made her a well-rounded student.

Sanchez said the festival brings awareness to the electric mix of cultures alive in Bowling Green.

“A lot of people in Bowling Green don’t have the chance to go to other countries, so this gives the opportunity to experience cultures,” she said. “It’s a way to open up people’s eyes.”

Sanchez said she believes that the differences amongst a population can make a stronger community.

Graduate student Sowmya Karamcheti of India, who attended the festival for the first time, said the international festival was a good thing for the city.

“It’s a beneficial thing to have the international festival so that we could get to know all the different cultures from all the different countries,” Karamcheti said.

Kaufmanns, Ramsey wants to connect with the people’s outlet and dispel small town stereotypes.

“They’re regular good people,” Ramsey said. “They get up, drink their coffee and don’t think anything of it.”

Ramsey also wants to dismiss the idea that life only happens in the big cities.

“Culture and reality are in small towns, not just on some show or reality TV,” he said.

For Kathy Ford working at Dovie’s in Tompkinsville has been her reality for the past 13 years.

Ford makes time to chat with all of her customers before serving them one of Dovie’s deliciously famous greasy burgers.

She proudly tells of her daughter’s success in Geometry class to a customer, while later she casually mentions that people from as far away as Germany and Poland have come to Dovie’s.

“One time we FedExed a burger to a lady who had cancer,” Ford said.

Ramsey has developed a sense of ownership of the state through his travels.

Eventually he would like Map Dot to stand by itself and be a full-fledged tourism operation.

“I feel like Kentucky is mine,” Ramsey said. “I feel like I’m out of place when I’m out of the Bluegrass.”

sick said.

She said Beavin’s death has been difficult for her and for Sig Ep. “We’re taking this very hard right now,” she said. “We’re all very solemn and very depressed, but we’ve all stayed together today to just be there for each other.”

She said it was difficult to lose Beavin because “his life just began, his adult life in college. He didn’t even get to live not even a year of it.”

“We were all going to go out when he got back and, you know, be together and now we’re just here for each other instead of with him,” Brown said.

The Student Affairs committee during the meeting did not vote on any items, but discussed information items.

Brian Kuster, executive director of housing and residence life, delivered a housing occupancy report and said his department is trying to have more juniors and seniors live on campus.

Kuster said private, individual rooms are more appealing to older students.

“If we build anything with double occupancy that’s not what our students want,” Kuster said.

Following the Student Af-

fairs committee, the Academic Affairs committee passed several items including the creation of a new Chinese and Arabic major and minor.

Patricia Minter, faculty regent, said she supported the idea.

“I’m thrilled to see that you’re doing this because this says we’re quite serious, not only internationalization, but having the type of intellectual culture the university should have,” Minter said.

All items passed Friday will go on to the Board of Regents meeting on Oct. 25 for full approval.

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THE REMOTE

‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ almost as silly as its name

niche offerings, that’s huge.

The series serves as a branch off of Marvel’s cinematic universe, which inQuick litmus test: try saying “Mar- cludes films like “The Avengers,” “Iron vel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” out loud. Man” and “Captain America: The First Even better — try typing it.

Avenger.”

It’s an ungainly, unwieldy It’s helmed by Joss Whedon, title that’s so long it’s silly. director of “The Avengers” Despite the title, “Marvel’s and also the brain behind cult Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is one favorite TV shows “Buffy the of the most-anticipated shows Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly.” this season.

The series picks up after It premiered to huge ratthe cataclysmic events of “The ings. TVLine.com says that Avengers,” and focuses on its first episode drew in 12.1 S.H.I.E.L.D., the government million viewers and scored a agency that handles the events PAIT 4.7 in the prized 18-49 democaused by superheroes and Columnist graphic. their enemies.

In a television market that’s It’s an inherently silly prembecoming increasingly fragmented by ise, but if anyone could lend gravity to

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it, Joss Whedon is the man. ample room for women.

Whedon made “The Avengers” feel Even better is the fact that they’re both entertaining and consequential. portrayed in a way that shows them to There’s a reason why it’s the world’s be as competent or even superior to third-highest-grossing film. their male cohorts.

But that winning formula is disIn a world where shows like “Two appointingly aband a Half Men” sent from “Marand “The Big Bang Ryan Pait, Columnist vel’s Agents of degrade [The show] is excessively Theory” S.H.I.E.L.D.” women for laughs, There are some fluffy, and feels like an hour it’s an attitude that’s quick nods to the of watching a child play refreshing. members of the But that attitude with action figures."

Avengers in the doesn’t entirely show, but it’s quite solve the show’s clear from the beproblems. ginning that they’re not the focus. This “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is is a show about the agents that help the excessively fluffy, and feels like an hour superheroes, not the superheroes. of watching a child play with action The series is led by Agent Coulson figures. It’s not near as amusing as it (Clark Gregg), who has made appear- sounds. ances in most of the Marvel films over The show also feels constrained by the past few years. Coulson apparently its budget. died in “The Avengers,” but mysteriSeries like “Game of Thrones” have ously returns for “Marvel’s Agents of proved that TV can be epic and look S.H.I.E.L.D.” amazing, but “Marvel’s Agents of Gregg is likable and funny, but the S.H.I.E.L.D.” feels like it can never get show’s opener didn’t leave me very that high. confident in his abilities to headline a You can tell it’s expensive, but none show. of it looks that great.

The cast is rounded out by the other The premiere ends with Coulson agents, played by the likes of Ming-Na flying away in a car, à la “Grease.” It’s Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennett, Iain campy as hell, but not in a fun way. The De Caestecker and Elizabeth Hen- show constantly feels like it’s winking at stridge. you.

While none of them really popped Agent Coulson may have returned for me, I will give credit where credit from the dead for “Marvel’s Agents of is due: in a show that could easily be S.H.I.E.L.D.,” but I won’t be returning to dominated by men, Whedon has made it any time soon.

Crime Reports Arrests: • Police arrested Barrington, Ill. senior Alexis Moll at the Gated Regents Lot on an e-warrant from the Bowling Green Police Department for failure to appear in court on Sept. 29.

• Police arrested Benjamin Johnson for causing a disturbance outside of Hilligans by trying to fight with employees and charged him with alcohol intoxication in a public place at the corner of 13th Street and College Street on Sept. 27.

Reports: • Bowling Green junior Shelby Rice reported her Nexus tablet stolen from Mass Media and Technology Hall Room 227 on Sept. 27. The estimated value of the item stolen is $269.99.

• Tyler Shaw reported a sexual as-

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• Milwaukee, Wis. freshman Omar Alotaibi reported his books stolen from his backpack at the front lobby of South Campus on Sept. 25. The estimated value of the items stolen is $218.

• Belleville, Mich. sophomore Samantha Fiducci, Gilbert Hall, reported several articles of clothing missing from her room in Gilbert Hall Room 119 on Sept. 25. The estimated value of the items stolen is $53.

• Lexington freshman Copeland Mack, Hugh Poland Hall, reported his laptop charger missing from his room in Hugh Poland Hall Room #312 on Sept. 25. The estimated value of the item stolen was $50.

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Cal me maybe?

TWEETS FROM THE HILL @acidrohnin Just saw an online article that ranked new college jerseys and helmet. I can proudly say the #WKU made the list and actually received a B+ — Sent Sept. 27, 2013

@tbo21rowx I just want to thank WKU for providing us dryers that don't work and change machines that are constantly "temporarily" out of service. #wku — Sent Sept. 27, 2013

Students deserve calorie listings at all campus dining options

THE ISSUE: Eating healthy in college is just plain hard. Many of us struggle to avoid picking up the extra pounds associated with our inevitable late-night Taco Bell visits. Anything that WKU can do to help its students stay fit ought to be done.

OUR STANCE: What we need is clarity. In order to hold ourselves accountable to what we eat, we need to know exactly what is in our food. Fresh Food Company has already taken great strides, but all WKU dining options should display the calorie count of their offered items.

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reakfast. Gym. Dorm. Class. Lunch.

Study. Class. Dinner. Study. Social life. Netflix. Sleep.

Repeat.

When you put it all together, saying that college students are busy is an extreme understatement. However, some of this is preparing us for real life after we get out of this country club called college.

We’re certainly not complaining that our biggest preoccupations are which class to study for and where we might want to party on Thirsty Thursday, but calorie listings are one less thing WKU students should have to worry about in their busy lives.

Every restaurant on campus ought to display estimated calorie counts next to its menu items.

To be clear, this is not another article from a bunch of college kids complaining about the little responsibility we’re actually given.

This is about us taking more responsibility in our lives, not less.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over one third of all adults in the United States are obese and 17 percent of children and teenagers ages 2-19 are already obese.

As a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration started requiring calorie listings on menus for chain

restaurants with 20 or more locations.

We’re certainly recognizing the need on a national level, and now the Herald is proposing we do something about righting this ship here at WKU — but we need help from the WKU administration and Aramark, the catering company that supplies WKU’s food.

We commend the fact that these measures have already been taken at Fresh Food Company. It’s nice to know exactly where you stand before you reach for that second plate of Italian sausage or eggplant parmesan, but that’s just a small drop in the bucket.

Of course, we recognize that merely listing how many calories there are in an Izzy’s burrito is not going to magically make us healthier, but for those who want to know, it should be available.

Plus, there’s something about knowing that you’re eating an entire day’s worth of calories in a single sitting that makes you think twice about getting extra breadsticks.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

WKU gear on game day is about ‘Respect’ I feel as if I am the perfect person to write this letter.

Not only am I a proud graduate of WKU (class ’92), I was runner-up Miss Western, an active member of Alpha Omicron Pi, and now work at Tate Page Hall recruiting international students for WKU. In other words, I am a big Hilltopper fan and supporter of WKU. I am also a very big fan of another university in Kentucky that shall remain

nameless. Let's just say they have a crazy feline mascot and the school colors are definitely not red.

So why does it bother me so much to see students wearing the other team's logos and colors around campus when I am also a fan?

It is the same reason I don't think it's appropriate to wearing a bathing suit to a funeral, or a white dress to a wedding if you are not the bride.

Respect.

Show a little team spirit and support the athletes that you walk past everyday sweating it out at practice. That said, I'm not going to give up my love for other teams, but I sure won't wear their gear head-to-toe on WKU's campus, and especially not on game day! Go Tops!

Jennifer Meisel, Marketing and Recruiting Officer, Navitas USA

@tyler_shaw21 Cracking open a beer before 10 in the morning is a great way to start the day #Tailgating #WKU — Sent Sept. 28, 2013

@marley569 It like a fight to the death for free tshirts. #wku — Sent Sept. 28, 2013

@stevekmeredith Sunburnt but worth it for a #WKU win. #GoTops — Sent Sept. 28, 2013

@j_brandenburg22 I don't know if Navy's the best team #WKU's beaten these past six years, but it's the biggest national brand the Tops have beaten for sure.

— Sent Sept. 28, 2013 @Dwill_wku After yesterday's game Antonio Andrews now leads the nation in rushing. Don't take him for granted this year! #WKU #underrated #takenotice — Sent Sept. 29, 2013

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WKU hosts first U.S. meeting of U.S. Confucius Institutes

BY KRISTINA BURTON LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

When walking through the entrance of Helm Library, it’s hard for students not to notice the Chinese art, artifacts and more along the walls and in nearby display cases.

That is just the reaction that President Gary Ransdell has wanted since the Confucius Institute opened on campus in April 2010.

“We want our students to walk through China on the way to the library,” Ransdell said.

More than three years since its opening, WKU’s Confucius Institute has grown to new heights, and was shown to institutes from all over the U.S. at a meeting that took place over the last few days.

WKU hosted the 2013 Joint Meeting of U.S. Confucius Institutes Sept. 27 to 30, the first such meeting in the U.S. More than 250 delegates representing more than 85 institutes were in attendance along with representatives of Hanban, the Chinese Ministry of Education that oversees the Confucius Institute program.

Visitors began the meeting by getting a tour of the new CI Mobile, which is a bus that WKU uses to spread the word about the Confucius Institute. They also got a tour of the Chinese Learning Center within Helm Library and participated in the coin toss before the football game against Navy.

The meeting officially kicked off with an opening ceremony

at the Carroll Knicely Conference Center on Saturday evening, which featured a variety of speakers.

Ransdell opened the ceremony by discussing the ways in which WKU has grown and impacted others through the Confucius Institute. These included things such as the WKU Symphony’s recent trip to China, the increasing number of Hanban volunteer teachers in nearby counties, the ways that iMedia is incorporated with the institute, CI Mobile, and more.

Speakers following Ransdell included Conference Chair Wei-Ping Pan, Chinese Embassy Delegate Lu Kang and James Flynn, who is President of the Kentucky Association of School Superintendents.

Flynn shared what he called a “P-12 perspective” of the Confucius Institute in the Simpson County school system.

Flynn said their Confucius classroom affiliate was the first in Kentucky, and currently has four teachers working with 3,000 students.

The next speakers to take the stage were Kentucky state Reps. Jody Richards, D-Bowling Green, and Jim Decesare, R-Bowling Green.

They read a citation from the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that read this was the “first meeting of this magnitude on American soil.”

Mayor Bruce Wilkerson and Warren County JudgeExecutive Mike Buchanon spoke next. They discussed

how Bowling Green has evolved from a somewhat homogenous community to one where the public schools teach in 41 different languages. They also read a proclamation on behalf of the city of Bowling Green and Warren County that declared Sept.

28, 2013, Confucius Institute Day. Colorado State University Vice Provost James Cooney took the stage next.

Cooney spoke of how “The Economist” a year and a half ago described Confucius Institutes as “the most successful soft power application in recent decades.”

Sidney McPhee, President of Middle Tennessee State University, spoke next.

He started off by sharing that China had literally changed his life and talked about his book of photographic essays, “China: Through The Eyes of An American University President.”

McPhee also shared a story about taking 40 Chinese students to the Grand Ole Opry and watching them clap and sing along while Lee Greenwood sang “God Bless the U.S.A.” “That is what it’s all about,” McPhee said. “That is when you know you are making a difference in the lives of these young people.”

McPhee also shared a quote from Confucius that he felt related well to those involved with the institutes and the challenges that may come along with them: “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

President Gary Ransdell speaks to the participants of the first Joint Meeting of the United States Confucius Institutes held in the United States. More than 260 delegates, representing 91 universities, were in attendance, along with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, and state Reps. Jim DeCesare, R-Bowling Green, and Jody Richards, D-Bowling Green. RAE EMARY/HERALD

The final speaker and highlight of the Opening Ceremony was Madame Xu Lin, Director General of Hanban and Chief Executive of Confucius Headquarters.

Ransdell introduced Lin by talking about how she attended her first American football game earlier that day and joined the Ransdells at their home for lunch.

Ransdell also told the story of how Lin had once applied to get her Master’s Degree here at WKU, but wasn’t offered enough scholarship money to be able to attend. However, Lin ended up being presented with an honorary WKU Doctorate in Beijing on July 22, 2011.

Lin’s speech discussed the significance of holding this meeting in Kentucky, featured excerpts from a letter from the President of China and shared how the U.S. has the most Confucius Institutes in the world and how she thinks that despite it being only threeyears-old, WKU’s is at par with the best of them.

After Lin closed her speech, plaques were presented from Hanban to the three new Confucius Classrooms in Simpson, Barren and Warren counties.

The conference continued on Sunday with group discussions and meetings and held its closing ceremony on Monday morning.

WKU food pantry assisting those in need on campus

BY ANNA LAWSON LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

Sarah Arnold has always wanted to help those who are hungry in the community.

Striving to make ends meet and put food on the table is a struggle of which she is very aware.

“I couldn't afford meal plans and barely made enough money to pay my bills so I lived on ramen noodles for a while,” Arnold said.

“Having had that experience, I can only imagine what it is like to do all of those things as well as have children to have to feed.”

Arnold started the food pantry when she was interning at the Counseling and Testing Center. The pantry started out as just a closet in the center.

However, in March of this year

it moved to the Gender and Women’s studies house.

“We have a much larger space and are able to be open more hours,” Arnold said.

Helping with the food pantry, Hazard freshman Courtney Ritchie says that she knows what it is like and what a relief help can be. Ritchie assists patrons and gathers donations among many other things.

“There are students, faculty, and staff who are having a hard time trying to feed themselves or their families,” she said. “The community will benefit because the food pantry is helping so many of these people.”

The food pantry is open for WKU students, faculty and staff, and is supported entirely with donations from the community. The pantry has been open for more than a year and has been successful in helping

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many individuals who would go hungry without the pantry.

“The food pantry provides many opportunities for the community to work together through food drives and other events to help raise awareness of hunger being an issue,” she said.

Arnold said this will also benefit other food pantries.

With WKU students and employees using the on-campus food pantry they don’t have to go to other pantries in the area.

Thus, these pantries are able to

provide more to surrounding neighborhoods.

“It is literally the WKU community helping the WKU community,” said Arnold. “People may not realize it but a donation from one department could provide assistance to someone in that same department. The food pantry is completely confidential.”

Arnold said having this food pantry will lessen the amount of stress with which a college student has to deal. She also added that it will eliminate the worry that faculty will not be able to put food on the table for their families.

“My hope is that with food assistance to students and employees, they are able to better focus on school and work without having so much worry about where the next meal will come from,” Arnold said. “I also hope that with this as an

option for students, parents will decrease worry about their kids when they come to campus.”

Arnold hopes that the pantry will continue to help people in the community, but also that they can open branches of the food pantry to other WKU campuses.

“A donation of a few cans can go a long way,” she said.

“We're not only helping WKU students and employees, we're helping families in the community.”

Arnold said she hopes her efforts can put a tangible dent on hunger throughout the area.

“So many children go home hungry every day and it is my hope that with this food pantry we can help decrease those numbers by helping out the WKU community,” she said.

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Revfest makes record donation for local horse charity

BY ARLA O’NEAL NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

A record-breaking donation from Revolution 91.7 was made to Rainhill Equine Facility last Friday at the annual RevFest concert. “It blows our mind seeing college students driven,� Dave Oakley, guitar and violin player for band Empire Theory, said.

An estimated 100 students were in attendance at RevFest.

The charity raised $516, the most ever raised through the event, according to a Facebook post from Revolution.

The crowd clapped in unison, cell phone lights waved and money was fundraised. “The enthusiasm for this cause is great,� Rainhill representative Lisa Salmon said about the students.

Rainhill Equine Facility is a local Bowling Green area charity, which houses and cares for around 40 disabled horses.

There were handmade horseshoes, previously worn on the horses’ feet, sold for a $10 donation.

Revolution sold everything from t-shirts to mugs along with band merchandise from Buffalo Rodeo and Empire

Theory.

Salmon said everyone has been so supportive of the cause. “There needs to be more awareness and people need to know what is going on,� Salmon said.

Students crowded on the lawn and in front of the stage set up in Centennial Mall.

Elizabethtown senior Samantha McKean expressed her excitement for the concert and the bands performing. “It’s nice to see everyone supporting everyone else,�

McKean said. “I hope they enjoy coming to local shows and supporting local bands.�

McKean is a big fan of Buffalo Rodeo and was looking forward to their performance.

Louisville freshmen Katie Baker and Patrick Kippes were working the Revolution booth and selling merchandise. “We want them to help and we have a good crowd out to support,� Baker said.

Kippes said they were selling a lot of raffle tickets and t-shirts throughout the night.

Donations were filling the glass jar on the table and by 7 p.m. they had around $300 raised.

Station manager Nathan

WKU students came together Friday evening to listen to a performance from Empire Theory in Centennial Mall during the 2013 RevFest Sept. 27. DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/HERALD Smith was seen in the audience, with other Revolution staff dancing and rocking out with the students and the bands.

Memphis native Kristin Ford said it felt good to realize people were helping out for a good cause.

She was backstage taking pictures with the members of

Empire Theory when they finished with their performance.

The Orlando, Fla. native band mingled with the audience afterwards, talking to students and getting a feel for the Bowling Green community. “The interaction with the audience is overwhelming,�

Oakley said.

He said Orlando was more

reserved and Bowling Green was much more involved at the show.

Oakley said he thinks the current generation of college students are the ones who are going to make a difference in the future. “Life is short and we get a chance to make a difference,�

Oakley said.

CROSS COUNTRY

Cross country teams set to compete in Greater Louisville Classic

BY ANDREW WEIGEL SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

The men’s and women’s cross country teams will travel to the site of the 2012 NCAA Cross Country Championships on Saturday to compete in the 12th annual Greater Louisville Classic.

The Toppers are coming off a No. 14 finish at the Commodore Classic. The Greater Louisville Classic is one of only two races the team will compete in before the Sun Belt Conference Championships that will be held on Oct. 2.

Coach Erik Jenkins said he is happy with where his young team’s development is at this

point in the season. “We want to keep getting better, and we still have a long way to go,� Jenkins said. “But I think we’re where we need to be right now.�

Junior David Mokone, the only returning Topper runner to place in the top-50 in last year’s Greater Louisville Classic, is looking to improve on his 43rd-place finish.

Sophomore Aaron Stevens is the only other returning men’s runner that competed in the meet a year ago. He finished 246th, good for third among WKU runners.

The Lady Toppers are coming off a No. 7 finish at the Commodore Classic, and will

look to improve on their No. 7 finish at last year’s Greater Louisville Classic.

Sophomore Lindsey Hinken was the top Lady Topper runner at last year’s meet, posting a 14th-place finish. Sophomores Louise Hill-Stirling and Katie Lever posted top-100 finishes last year, coming in 75th and 90th, respectively The Greater Louisville Classic annually boasts top competition, with two top-10 teams competing last year, and featured 12 schools representing the six BCS Conferences a year ago. This year, the deep field will test the young WKU teams. “This is a new venue with good competition. We’ve been

Erick Jenkins, Cross country coach

We want to keep getting better, and we still have a long way to go. But I think we're where we need to be right now. in Nashville for our first two meets this year, so running with a bigger field and nationally ranked competition will be a challenge,� Jenkins said. “No course is the same, and we want to focus on navigating as well as possible.�

Even with the tough competition, Jenkins he doesn’t plan to prepare any differently

for the meet. “It’ll be business as usual,� said Jenkins, “We want them to get better at traveling as a pack and running together. We are going to continue working on our race strategy. We want to improve on not only their time, but also how they’re racing. In the end, you’ve got to beat people when it counts.�

THE REEL

Double feature: Feel the ‘Rush’ with ‘Don Jon’

BY BEN CONNIFF OPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

Professional sports have always featured their fair share of playboys.

Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain is said to have had relations with over 20,000 women over the course of his career.

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski once came under fire for releasing photos of himself with a porn star.

In the case of Formula One race car driver, and subject of the new movie “Rush,� James

Hunt (Thor’s Chris Hemsworth), the number of women he slept with is upwards of 5,000.

As the saying goes, “To the victor go the spoils.�

But that doesn’t mean you technically have to be a world champion to knock ‘em dead.

That’s clear in “Don Jon.�

In his screenwriting and directing debut, Joseph GordonLevitt plays a New Jersey Lothario known to his “boys� as Don Jon. Despite his escapades with a seemingly incalculable amount of women whom he picks up at bars with his buddies, Jon can’t seem to shake his addiction to pornography.

In director Ron Howard’s “Rush,� Hunt can’t seem to shake his addiction to the limelight.

While similar in their hotheaded approaches to women, both characters find themselves in completely different

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Above all else, these two films feature outstanding casts and superb editing.

Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore and Tony Danza lead a cast of honest, believable characters in “Don Jon.�

Gordon-Levitt assures his place among Hollywood’s elite players and budding filmmakers while Johansson remains convincing in a role tailormade for her.

Hemsworth and Daniel

BrĂźhl both make strong, earnest turns in “Rush.â€?

As for the editing, Lauren Zuckerman’s work on “Don Jon� is akin to that of Jay Rabinowitz on “Requiem for A Dream.�

Zuckerman's frenetic, music video- style editing of Don Jon's vicious cycle of addiction desensitizes the audience in the same visual style of "Requiem"'s graphic drug trips.

Hypnotic, attractive, fastpaced editing keeps these films from never experiencing a dull moment. “Rush�’s most engaging sequences come on the racetrack, with cars zooming by at 200 miles per hour.

Editor Daniel Hanley makes the experience all the more intense with race footage juxtaposed against point-of-view shots that give the audience a sense for what it’s like behind the wheel of a Formula One

race car. “Don Jon� and “Rush� are neither boring, nor overbearing thanks to their editors.

But like their philandering leading men, these films are not without flaw. “Don Jon� introduces a heavy-handed tonal shift in the last five to ten minutes that serves an important purpose in terms of character development but feels out of place.

Gordon-Levitt inserts a sermon about true love that feels awkward against the funny, breezy musings of the previous hour and twenty minutes.

While I found it to be the best sports film in years, “Rush� somehow lacks the “it� factor to make it an Oscar shoo-in.

Despite the similarities and differences, for better or worse, “Rush� and “Don Jon� are two wonderfully enjoyable films with egotistical, flawed leading men.

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VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball coach Hudson earns 200th win

BY AUSTIN LANTER SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM The Lady Topper volleyball team began Sun Belt Conference play for the last time this weekend, the last season WKU will play in the conference before moving to Conference USA in 2014.

The team won both its games this weekend — a pair of sweeps — as the Lady Toppers moved to 12-4 on the season and started 2-0 in the conference.

They began their regular season championship title defense with a pair of games in Alabama against Troy (5-11, 0-2 Sun Belt Conference) and South Alabama (5-7, 0-2 SBC).

Friday night WKU made short work of Troy, defeating the home team 3-0 behind a double-double from senior

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ed when he was in the game.

It’s a challenge for us to really understand what exactly they are going to try to do, particularly on a short week like this.”

Berry and ULM have historically played close games against WKU. In the last three years, ULM holds a 2-1 advan-

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the attacking side of the ball,” he said.

WKU controlled the game’s tempo throughout, outshooting Louisiana-Lafayette 16-6 and limiting the opponent to just three shots on goal. Abolins and the backline tallied their fourth shutout of the season and 28th of Abolins’ career.

This marked Abolins 28th career shutout, as she tallied

setter Melanie Stutsman. The double-double — she had 14 digs and 38 of WKU’s 43 assists — was the second for Stutsman.

Hudson In the first Volleyball set, the Lady coach Toppers recorded 19 kills with a hitting percentage of .400 to beat the Trojans 25-19. WKU would take the second and third sets, both by a score of 25-16, to win the match.

Freshman defensive specialist Georgia O’Connell said she was pleased with how the team performed, but she hoped to improve on how the team acts on the court.

“One of our weaknesses was probably just communi-

cation,” she said. “We would talk, but then we would get quiet.”

Sophomore outside hitter Haley Bodway led the Lady Toppers Friday night with 12 kills while senior outside hitter Paige Wessel tallied 10 for WKU. The next day the Lady Toppers traveled to Mobile, Ala., to face South Alabama.

In the sweep it was the middle hitters — junior Heather Boyan and sophomore Noelle Langenkamp — that led the team to victory. Both hit over .600 for the match and combined for 26 kills with only three attack errors.

Stutsman had another strong outing for WKU as she recorded 44 assists, six kills and five digs. Senior defensive specialist Ashley Potts tallied another 11 digs while Boyan

had four blocks.

“To be quite honest, we didn’t play that well, it was a little bit sloppy,” assistant coach Kristi Griffin said. “We’re just not playing clean volleyball.

We were able to gut out the two wins which is always good, starting off the conference 2-0.

We really need to clean it up moving forward.”

With the win, coach Travis Hudson earned his 200th career Sun Belt Conference win in his 19th year at the head of the Lady Toppers. Currently, Hudson holds a 200-58 career record in the Sun Belt which is good enough for a .775 winning percentage, the highest among all active Sun Belt coaches.

The win was also the sixth straight on the season for the Lady Toppers, as well as the 28th straight Sun Belt Confer-

ence win.

WKU will be back on the road for another Conference game Wednesday as they travel to Atlanta to face a league newcomer in Georgia State (511, 0-2). The Lady Toppers will then return home for two SBC matches against newcomers Texas State (12-5, 2-0) and UTArlington (9-6, 2-0) this weekend.

“I know Georgia State lost a tough one to a really good Little Rock team yesterday so they look to be pretty solid,” Griffin said. “Both the Texas teams went undefeated this past weekend. I know Texas State, looking at their pre-conference schedule, they played some really good teams and had some really good wins.

We’re really going to need to play better than we did this past weekend.”

tage over the Toppers, with games being decided twice in overtime and a combined nine points.

With that, the two teams have formed a rivalry that some players have had a part in for many years according to ULM’s Berry.

“I think one of the interesting things about this game is we have so many guys that have been four-year starters for us and there is a signifi-

cant number there,” Berry said. “At Western Kentucky, there is also a number who have been significant players for them for quite some time.

We’ve had some really crazy games over the past three years.”

Berry said the Toppers are “physical” and show signs of the hard-nosed team that he expects.

Preparing for a short week doesn’t provide any extra ad-

vantage for either team, Berry said, but his quarterback situation could give WKU a bit of the upper hand.

“With both of us having the same amount of time, there’s not a huge advantage,” Berry said. “I’d feel a lot more comfortable in relation to our quarterback situation, which I think not only impacts a normal work week, but obviously on a short week creates a little bit more angst. “

Petrino called ULM’s defense “unique” in their different approaches and blitz schemes they present.

“There’s times when they have 11 guys within six yards of the ball and really gang on the line of scrimmage to stop the run,” Petrino said. “We’re just going to have to be real efficient, have some patience and keep running the ball in there and break some tackles when we run it.”

mon sight to see the defense squaring off against an option offense in Fall Camp over the offseason, and their training paid off.

“We had a great plan and we worked hard at it,” coach Bobby Petrino said after Saturday's game. “It’s something we’ve been working on since spring and early in August, so it didn’t take just three days to get it done.”

The Toppers will look to stay hot on defense Thursday against Louisiana-Monroe.

The Warhawks will be without starting quarterback and 2012 Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year Kolton Browning, and it may be a struggle for them to replace such an important part of their unique offense. At 2-3, though, they stand to gain as much from a win as WKU does.

The Topper defense said they knew they could shut down one of the best rushing offenses in the nation last week. On Saturday, they proved it.

three saves on the afternoon.

Abolins hasn’t allowed a goal in her last 288:02 at goalie.

With the win WKU improved to 2-0 in Sun Belt Conference play to take sole possession of first place in league standings after a weekend of play.

“We take a lot of pride in our defending, and two shutouts are great,” Lange said.

The Lady Toppers will travel to San Marcos, Texas Sunday to take on Sun Belt foe Texas State for the first time in program history.

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It was an important defensive performance that was a long time in the making for WKU. The Toppers had studied film of Navy’s offense for months leading up to the game, including tape from WKU's 40-14 blowout loss to the Midshipmen in the pouring rain in 2011. It was a com-

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WKU set to face ULM for final time in Sun Belt

BY ELLIOTT PRATT SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM October is here, meaning Sun Belt Conference play has arrived.

WKU (3-2, 0-1 Sun Belt Conference) will enter its Sun Belt season on a two-game winning streak after topping Navy at home 19-7 over the weekend.

The WKU defense held the nation’s No. 1 rushing attack to just 107 yards on the ground while senior running back Antonio Andrews moved into the lead in the NCAA for most rushing yards, all-purpose yards and touchdowns with 32 carries for 182 yards and two scores.

Andrews' efforts earned him Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Week honors as he moved into second place in career all-purpose yards with 5,321. For the second week in a row, senior linebacker Xavius

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Boyd was selected as the conference Defensive Player of the Week with eight solo tackles and a sack that resulted in a safety against Navy.

Boyd and the rest of the Topper defense hope to translate last week’s impressive stand against Navy as they prepare for Thursday’s game at Louisiana-Monroe at 6:30 p.m. on ESPNU. ULM (2-3) is a team that has struggled to move the ball on offense all season. The Warhawks have averaged 349 yards per game so far this year.

The Toppers enter the game with a bit of a chip on their shoulder from last year’s Homecoming overtime loss to the Warhawks. ULM quarterback Kolton Browning led the team from a 28-7 deficit to win

it 43-32 in overtime.

But ULM is without Browning for the rest of the year after he sustained a torn quad muscle injury in the team’s 31-14 loss to Tulane Saturday.

Sophomore Brayle Brown entered the game for ULM and went 10-for-18 for 133 yards and two interceptions against the Green Wave.

With Browning out at quarterback, ULM could play Brown or freshman Brian Williams, who ULM coach Todd Berry said has “grasped things very quickly.”

Browning's absence will present a new look of the offense, but coach Bobby Petrino and company will look even beyond what Browning has brought to ULM’s offense.

“We just have to go on the history of what Berry likes to do,” Petrino said. “We do have some video with Brayle Brown in there and what they executSEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

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Defense showed grit in Saturday’s Navy win

BY LUCAS AULBACH SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM

The talk all week leading up to Saturday’s game against Navy was about the match-up between the Midshipmen offense and Topper defense. WKU spent a lot of time in Fall Camp preparing to face Navy’s triple-option threat, and junior cornerback Cam Thomas said the team watched film from when the teams faced each other in 2011.

Practice made for Aulbach perfect for the TopSports editor pers this weekend.

WKU stopped the Midshipmen in their tracks as the Toppers picked up their third win of the season.

The win is impressive if that’s all you know. Navy came into the game ranked No. 36 in the most recent AP top 25 poll, the highest ranking of any team on WKU’s schedule this year. Pile on the fact that the Midshipmen were bringing the NCAA’s best rushing attack with them — they averaged 398 rushing yards in their first two games of the year — and it looked like WKU’s confident defense would have its hands full.

That’s what makes the final score of 19-7 in Saturday’s game stand out.

Navy was expected to run all over the Toppers, who ranked No. 95 in the NCAA in run defense and had given up an average of 31.5 points per game. Instead, the Midshipmen were only able to post seven points over 60 minutes.

WKU benefitted from the loss of Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds, who left with a concussion in the second quarter, but the Midshipmen have plenty of weapons on offense. Apart from the first drive of the game — the only time Navy was in the end zone — the Topper defense shut them all down. It was an impressive performance from a team preparing to really start its conference schedule.

Defensive coordinator Nick Holt had faced triple-option offenses before, he said after the game, but not since the 1990s. He was pleased his defense improved as the game went on.

“The kids had a little success early and kept going from there,” Holt said. “They kept getting better and more confident. Halftime and third quarter rolled around, and they

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Lady Toppers open Sun Belt play with two wins

BY JONAH PHILLIPS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM The Lady Toppers found their formula for offensive and defensive potency this weekend as they opened up Sun Belt Conference play at home.

WKU (4-3-4) was able to chalk up a pair of 2-0 victories this weekend. The team is now riding a three-game winning streak.

“We put in a really good defensive effort,” coach Jason Neidell said of the weekend.

“We’ve been pretty good all season long, but I think we were really sharp defensively.”

Their first conference game of the season, Friday against Louisiana-Monroe, was decided by a dominant defensive effort and goals by senior defender Torrie Lange and freshman forward Iris Dunn.

“We really came out and played together, as a team,” Lange said. “Coach has been telling us to put the foot on the gas, don’t let up, and play quickly.”

Lange's score came off a

corner kick from sophomore defender Alanna Clancey, the first assist of her career.

Dunn’s goal, a header off a cross from fellow freshman Haley Baldridge, was her second on the season.

“Offensively, I think we are starting to connect better,” Dunn said. “At the beginning of the season we lacked that final pass and that little ‘umph’ to get the goals we needed to finish.”

WKU’s defense matched the offense. Senior goalkeeper Nora Abolins recorded the 27th shutout of her career and WKU did not allow a shot on goal for the first time since 2007.

Dunn was at it again Sunday against Louisiana-Lafayette — she scored a goal less than five minutes into the game. Freshman midfielder Caitlin Hesse matched her with a goal in the 78th minute, the first of her WKU career, as the Lady Toppers won 2-0.

Dunn’s goal came off of an assist from senior midfielder Chrissy Tchoula. The pre-

Senior forward/defender Andrea Curry hugs teammate freshman midfielder Caitlin Hesse after WKU scored a second goal against Louisiana-Lafayette, making the score 2-0. KATIE MCLEAN/HERALD season Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Year has now notched an assist in three straight games.

Neidell said the Lady Toppers need to improve on offense but they looked good this weekend.

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