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Pi Kappa Alpha under investigation

BY CAMERON KOCH & JACOB PARKER NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is currently under investigation by the office of Student Activities.

Howard Bailey, vice president of Student Affairs, said allegations of violations to the student code of conduct were raised over fall break.

The investigation of the fraternity wrapped up Friday afternoon, he said.

Multiple sources told the Herald the organization is under investigation for hazing. But Bailey and Charley Pride, director of Student Activities, could not confirm this.

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Hillcrest, Chi Omega house to be demolished next semester

BY JACKSON FRENCH NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM Early next semester, Hillcrest Apartments and the Chi Omega sorority house, both on Normal Street, will be no more.

Both buildings are being demolished to make room for a building that will house the Honors College and International Center upon its completion.

Bryan Russell, director of Planning, Design, and Construction, said WKU purchased and currently owns both buildings.

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Leitchfield senior Kyle London skateboards in Bowling Green on Monday Oct. 21. JEFF BROWN/HERALD

WKU rails against skateboard “vandalism”

BY JACKSON FRENCH NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM Damage to rails, benches and even artwork on campus has caught the attention of university administrators.

The culprit, they say? Skateboards.

Howard Bailey, vice president of student affairs, said WKU is trying to figure out how to monitor skateboard “vandalism.”

“We’ve had quite a bit of damage done to very expensive areas of campus that was committed by individuals on skateboards,” he said. “Some marble has been chipped, some irreplaceable things have been damaged by the use of skateboards,” Bailey said.

Much of the damage is attributed to the act of riding a skateboard down the rails, called grinding.

Plant operations manager Dale Dyer said skateboard damage is a major maintenance issue.

“The damage is continuous,” Dyer said. “Most of our rails are steel, and we spend a lot of time keeping those painted.”

He said there has been a lot of damage done to rails and segments of stonework since the start of the semester.

“We painted about 80 percent of the rails on campus over the summer, and some of those are already in rough shape due to the skateboards,” Dyer

said.

“One ride down [from] the top of a rail with a skateboard and there’s no more paint left,” he said.

Dyer also said grinding down a rail can leave jagged edges in the metal with the potential to cause hand injuries.

Once jagged edges appear on rails, Dyer said they have to be ground down for the sharp edges to be taken off.

He said some of the newer rails on campus near the Music Rehearsal Hall have been constructed with the prevention of vandalism in mind.

“The newer handrails in some cases have had, purposely, pieces of metal welded on them that would prohibit a skateboard,” he said.

President Gary Ransdell said the damage is a problem that needs to be addressed.

“If they just stay on the streets and the sidewalks, that’s fine,” Ransdell said. “But when they start doing damage to the campus, we’ve got to address that.”

Ransdell said he has asked facilities staff and campus police to address skateboard vandalism when they see it.

“When we see a skateboarder doing something dangerous to himself or to others, we need to call them on it,” Ransdell said.

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Alumnus set to release debut album 'Let Us Get Away'

BY MACKENZIE MATHEWS LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM WKU has seen another alumnus into the music industry. Louisville native Jordan Minton, who graduated in 2012, has gone on to begin making a name for himself.

Minton played at Lost River Pizza Co. on Thursday night, Oct. 17 in support of his upcoming album “Let Us Get Away.” The album will drop this Tuesday, Oct. 22, and hard copies will be available at his shows and Mellow Matt’s Music & More.

Minton will also be playing at the Augenstein Alumni Center from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday before the Homecoming game.

Minton said he is ecstatic to have his dream of releasing an album come to fruition.

“I’m so excited for the release. It still sounds really weird to say that it’s happening,” Minton said. “It’s been a dream for a while now, and the fact that it’s happening is still surreal. I’m just excited to have my music accessible.”

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Louisville alum Jordan Minton sings at a packed Lost River Pizza Co. in Bowling Green. MICHAEL NOBLE JR./HERALD

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MINTON Wheelchair Basketbrawl Challenge gives students new perspectives CONTINUED FROM FRONT

BY LAUREN LORANCE LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

There was a packed house as the Music City Lightning took the court at the Wheelchair Basketbrawl Challenge in the Preston Center.

Three bleachers, spilling with students, sat near the basket as other newfound fans stood along the sidelines.

The Lightning, a wheelchair basketball team out of Nashville, played a scrimmage and then invited students to play.

Chicago freshman Corey Stevens worked up the nerve to get in the game.

“I just wanted to see how it feels to get to go up and down the court in a wheelchair and play basketball because I’ve been playing all my life, able to use my two legs,” Stevens said. “I just wanted to see and feel the difference.”

Stevens said he now has a better appreciation for people in wheelchairs.

“I can honestly say you’ve got to be in more shape in a wheelchair than actually on your legs, because you’ve got to have good upper body strength because that’s all you use is your upper body,” Stevens said. “It’s a lot of hard work.”

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Participants and WKU students wait for a rebound during the Wheelchair Basketbrawl Challenge at Preston Center on Thursday, Oct. 17. The Wheelchair Basketbrawl Challenge was presented by Student Disability Services as part of Disability Awareness Month. DEMETRIUS

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strength wasn’t up to snuff to compete with the professional team.

“It’s really hard,” Weaver said. “They make it look really easy. When you get out there, it’s really, really hard pushing and trying to hold the basketball. When you try to shoot, you can’t jump, can’t do anything. But I tried.”

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are still being utilized, which was part of the original contractual agreement between the owners and WKU,” he said.

Russell said Chi Omega is relocating to a house on Chestnut Street.

“The university worked with their organization and presented many options along the course of the last couple of years to find a property that met their needs and then met our needs as well, so it was a win-win for both organizations,” he said.

The university purchased the property on which Hillcrest Apartments currently occupies for $950,000 over the summer, the appraised value excluding closing costs. An agreement between the property owner and the university was made after the regents adopted a resolution authorizing the exercise of eminent domain on April 26.

Russell said construction on the new building is scheduled to begin in early February, after the house and the apartment complex are demolished.

India graduate student Suresh Lokre, who lives in Hillcrest Apartments, said he doesn’t know where he’s going to move when everyone is forced to leave during the last week of December.

“I’m still looking for a place, but I haven’t got any,” he said.

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Bailey said that is difficult.

“It never happens in the presence of a person in authority, so you don’t know who did it,” Bailey said.

He said several pieces of artwork have been damaged since the beginning of the semester.

“We are very fortunate that we have some visible stand-up art on campus,” he said. “A few of those artworks have been chipped where someone ran the skateboard axle against them.”

Damage done to the “On the Point” sculpture on the Hill was reported in the campus crime reports on Aug. 30. The newest sculpture on campus was moved from downtown Bowling Green, where the piece had a previous history of being a popular attraction for local skaters, art department head Brent Oglesbee told the Herald in September.

Ransdell said there are currently no plans to ban skateboarding, but that may change if the problem continues.

disabled people shouldn’t be underestimated.

“I respect them more,” Stevens said. “I don’t take their game as a joke. They are capable of doing it just as well as we are.”

Hopkinsville freshman Damion Wheeler said he’d seen the wheelchair sport on TV before and wanted to see it live.

Although Wheeler said

Lokre said he needs to find a new place close to campus because he doesn’t have a car.

“We international students, you know, we try to look for the places within the campus so that we don’t have to travel longer distances,” he said.

Nashville senior and Hillcrest resident Cori Haber said she is opposed to the building being torn down.

“I disagree with Western and taking over just because they think it’s eminent domain,” she said. “I think preserving it would be better just because it’s been here for so long and been part of Western’s campus for so long.”

Craig Cobane, executive director of the Honors College, said he expects the building to be constructed on top of the gravel parking lot, formerly home to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house, between Hillcrest Apartments and the Chi Omega house.

He said the new facilities will be comprised of one building and some green space, adding that there will be little parking space near the new building.

Cobane said there is a misconception that the building will only serve as an honors facility.

“I think one of the misnomers is that this is an honors building,” he said. “I believe square footage-wise, barely a third of the building is going to be used for honors units.”

He said the new building will pri-

“If skateboarders continue to abuse the privilege, I wouldn’t rule it out,” Ransdell said.

Owensboro freshman William Lindsey, a skateboarder, said the idea of the university banning skateboards is ridiculous.

Lindsey said his skateboard is his primary mode of transportation around campus.

“I understand they don’t want us grinding on stuff but banning it entirely, just riding around on them, is ridiculous,” he said.

Bailey said it’s a difficult issue.

“So we struggle with how to have a policy that doesn’t take everyone that enjoys using a skateboard’s privilege away from them because of the deeds of a few,” he said.

Adding to the difficulty is that some of the students committing the damage may not be WKU students.

But Bailey said he doesn’t want to see a campus-wide skateboard ban.

“I assume it’s a lot of fun zooming down the hill,” Bailey said.

Reporter Trey Crumbie and Tyler Prochazka contributed to this story.

the Lightning outplayed him and the other students that got in the game, it was still a fun learning experience.

“I just noticed that no matter if you have a disability, if you want to work hard and do what you got to do, there ain’t nothing you can’t do,” Wheeler said.

“Now I just realize that they’re just people just like we are.”

marily be “a place for international students.”

“Currently, the generic name for it is the Honors College and International Center, and it will house almost all the international programs,” he said.

Cobane said these programs include Navitas, English as a Second Language International, Study Abroad, Global Learning, and the Kentucky Institute for International Studies.

He said the international student office will also be located in the new building to assist international students with whatever problems they may have.

“These international students, they’re coming from all over the world and they often like to be able to connect with people who are sharing the same kinds of experiences, so it gives them sort of a place on campus,” Cobane said.

He said the building will also include a café he hopes will serve a variety of international foods.

Cobane said he hopes the Honors College and International Center will help domestic students connect with students from other countries. He said he wants the building to foster international friendships and inspire students to study abroad.

“I want every student who walks into that building to see that the primary idea is that this building is a gateway to the world,” he said.

Crime reports Arrests: • Police arrested Brentwood, Tenn., sophomore Ray Nash in McCormack Hall for possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, possession of an unspecified controlled substance of the first-degree and of the third-degree on Oct. 18.

• Police arrested La Vergne, Tenn., freshman Jacob Ryan Steelman, Poland Hall, on Avenue of Champions for alcohol intoxication a public place on Oct. 19.

• Police arrested Shelby Smith for an e-warrant out of Jessamine County at the Housing and Residence Life office on Oct. 17.

• Police arrested Louisville freshman Richard Rudolph, Northeast Hall, for receiving stolen property under $10,000, tampering with physical evidence, and possession of marijuana at Preston Center/Northeast Hall on Oct. 16.

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That dream began when Minton was going into high school, learning to play the drums. That quickly evolved into the guitar, and then, leading the worship band in his church.

He said that worship was a strong way to begin his music enterprise because it kept him humble, reminding him that his performance is for the audience, not himself.

Bowling Green got its Jordan Minton debut when he was a junior at WKU and was playing in local venues, like Hilligan’s and Mellow Mushroom.

Minton said he was able to build a fan base out of similar crowds that revisited the venues he played in.

Minton is not the first artist to get his start in Bowling Green. Bands like Cage the Elephant and the up-andcoming Buffalo Rodeo experienced similar bar and restaurant crowds.

Their success has provided inspiration for Minton.

“It’s encouragement, because no matter where you come from, people are going to listen to your music, and they’re going to enjoy it,” he said.

Danville senior Morgan Kidwell is a fan and said she thinks Minton offers an original take on pop music.

“I think Jordan’s music is likable for a lot of people because he has a style of a lot of popular artists,” she said.

“But he has a unique sound to it.”

Minton categorizes himself as a singer/songwriter with lyrically based music. He said he would put his genre somewhere between folk and pop, finding inspiration for his music from listening to Nashville artists of similar styles.

“I like to tell stories through songs.

Sometimes, they’re about my life and people I’ve met,” he said. “Sometimes, they’re fictional. And sometimes, they’re real life, but I always try to make them relatable."

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“Our staff feels that there are strong indications that some improprieties have possibly occurred,” Bailey said.

Pike President Bret Parks said the investigation is a private matter, and that the fraternity as of Sunday had not yet had their final meeting with university officials about the investigation.

Pride and Kenneth Johnson, assistant director of Student Activities, interviewed between 40 to 50 people for the investigation, Bailey said.

Once the interviews are reviewed, Bailey said action may be taken against the organization.

Because of activities related to Homecoming, Bailey said the understaffed Student Activities office hasn’t had the chance to compile all of the information into writing.

Pride said Student Activities has been lucky in the past few years, with relatively few Greek investigations having taken place.

But after allegations are brought to his office’s attention, Pride said they begin to investigate and determine if a violation took place by conducting interviews.

“If you are a student, you are required to work with us,” Pride said.

Pride said the two most common violations that are investigated are alcohol abuse and hazing.

As defined in the student code of conduct, “Western Kentucky University defines hazing as any action, physical abuse or creation of a situation which recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health of a participant by any person.”

The code of conduct also states, “Members of the university community recognize that a violation of any federal, state and local laws governing the use and possession of alcoholic beverages, including off-campus, is prohibited.”

The Interfraternity Council, of which Pike is a member organization, is the governing body for WKU's fourteen North-American Interfraternity Conference fraternities. Pride said while the council could take action if a fraternity is found to be in violation of a policy, often times IFC defers to the university.

“Peer on peer often times doesn’t work out,” Pride said. “I think they would prefer the university who has more practice doing it.”

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WKU, other universities ask for more than $600 million

BY KAELY HOLLOWAY NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM

President Gary Ransdell made a guest appearance at Thursday’s faculty Senate meeting to discuss a budget model being drafted by Kentucky university presidents.

According to the latest version of the model, the universities are collectively asking for more than $52 million for the 2014-2015 school year to help pay for operating costs. Of that, WKU would receive roughly $7 million.

For the 2015-2016 school year, the universities are requesting more than $68 million.

State funding for higher education has continued to decrease for the last 11 years statewide, despite state-approved tuition increases. With this model, all universities are requesting more money for higher education for the upcoming business biennium, in addition to funding they will already receive.

“We’ve been putting a lot of work into this model, and this process gets a little crazy sometimes because you try to arrive at something that eight universities and the Kentucky Community

and Technical College system can try to agree on,” Ransdell said.

He said the administrators are working to agree upon a final draft of this model that will be sent to the Council on Postsecondary Education before being sent to the state governor and the state general assembly. The figures presented in the model on Thursday were not finalized figures.

The operating fund request consists of several categories: college and career readiness, research and economic development, degree production, the Kentucky Adult Learner Initiative and University of Kentucky/Kentucky State University Land Grand Mission Funds.

Ransdell said his priorities for this request begin with obtaining degree production funding. This form of funding allows for more flexibility than the other categories creating the operation fund request.

“You heard President Ransdell say this was his biggest priority,” Ann Mead, senior vice president for finance and administration, said. “The reason for that is that we will be given the maximum flexibility on how we earned it, the maximum flexibility on how we

spend it.”

If the model request were to be funded as is, WKU would be putting almost $2 million of their $7 million toward Degree Production funding, receiving the third highest percentage of funding of all participating state universities.

More money for capital projects is also being requested by the universities. The universities are currently requesting more than $600 million, according to the latest model.

Of that, roughly $70 million would go toward WKU. This funding would come in the form of bonds, which would be sold with proceeds of the sale going toward the university.

Money for capital projects goes toward campus improvement, including the construction of new buildings or building renovations.

The two principal categories of the budget model, capital and operating, can also be approved or denied separately.

If the capital funding in particular is approved, WKU would use $48 million toward science campus renovations.

Science campus renovations have been previously funded through the

state and have since halted due to the state funding decreases.

“Renovation of the science campus was such a large endeavor, the state chose to fund it in phases,” Mead said.

Receiving this funding would begin phase four of the renovation process.

“Our number one priority, and we’ve said it as long as it’s been out there since 2006, is the renovation of the center wing of Thompson Complex,” Ransdell said. “We’ve got to finish up the transformation of our science facilities.”

Ransdell also announced he will be holding a question and answer session regarding this funding model on Nov. 7 at 3:45 p.m. in Snell Hall. Questions were not taken during Thursday’s senate meeting. All information divulged at the meeting is not final, however, as more work is being done for the final draft before it is sent to the state government.

“The next step is for us to achieve an agreement on what are the priorities if we only get $20 million, or if we only get $10 million, or $30 million, what are the priorities within these variables we will put that money toward, and that’s going to be a real battle between us,” Ransdell said.

THE REEL

Bloody Sunday: ‘Carrie’ update proves unnecessary

BY BEN CONNIFF OPINION@WKUHERALD.COM In 1976, Brian De Palma brought “Carrie” to terrifying life in a film considered by many as a classic of the horror genre.

Oscar-nominated performances and still timely themes surrounding religion and teen bullying have cemented De Palma’s “Carrie” as one of the most well-respected horror films of the past 40 years.

With such a reputation to live up to, Kimberly Peirce’s 2013 “Carrie” feels as though it's afraid to be different, much like its teen protagonist.

Wrongly billed as a “re-imagining” of Stephen King’s classic novel, “Carrie” tells the story of a sheltered high school girl who discovers that she has telekinetic powers after being bullied and ridiculed by her classmates.

If kids with cell phones speaking different slang are all that set this “re-imagining” apart from De Palma's original, then Peirce and her creative team need detention and prom privileges revoked.

While teen angst is as timely as ever, especially in today's cyber age, Peirce doesn’t bring much to the table in terms of presentation.

The production design, from Carrie’s house, to the school and the prom, looks and feels exactly like the original.

The script, from original “Carrie” screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen and

“Glee” producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, features dialogue that sounds verbatim to Cohen’s 1976 screenplay.

That being said, the three new scenes tacked onto the script were executed rather well.

The film’s chilling opening sequence features Carrie’s mother, Margaret White (Julianne Moore) wailing for help and forgiveness from a bed strewn with bloodstained sheets.

The several religious icons and grotesquely melted candles lend a creepy Gothic vibe to a bizarre scene that concludes with Margaret giving birth to Carrie in the bed.

Later on, after Carrie finally accepts Tommy Ross’s invitation to prom, she gleefully goes to a store to pick out fabric for a dress — giving the audience a glimpse of how she feels coming into her own, despite an abusive mother and mean classmates.

Give all credit to Chloe Grace Moretz

for stepping out of Sissy Spacek’s shadow and making this role her own.

With every timid look, smile and tear shed, her emotions feel genuine and confident — qualities sorely lacking from the rest of the production.

As for Margaret, Moore is the only choice for the character made famous

by Piper Laurie’s grim, Oscar-nominated performance.

Since I only first saw the original after finding out about this remake, I could only see Moore whenever Laurie was onscreen.

Moore is nothing short of terrifying in her turn as Carrie’s religious fanatic mother.

Though it’s well acted, Peirce's “Carrie” is an unnecessary impersonation of a superior film with important themes that still hold up today.

Save yourself the price of a prom ticket and watch the superior 1976 version of “Carrie” on Netflix this Halloween.

Health care majors confront challenges of Obamacare

BY CASEY DOWNEY LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM

In March of 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which outlines goals of improving health care quality with lower costs to consumers.

Many Americans are buzzing about the Affordable Care Act and what it means for them, since enrollment sites opened this month.

Those on the health care administration track at WKU are learning about the inner workings of the health care system, focusing on how the bill will affect patient care and the payment system.

Gregory Ellis-Griffith, assistant professor of public health, is the director for undergraduate health care administration. Since he came to WKU in August of 2010, he has worked with students to outline challenges presented by the bill and develop strategies to face these problems head on.

Students are also working to under-

stand the advantages presented for the health care industry through the Affordable Care Act. “It was October 2010 when huge chunks of it started to come into effect and a big part of it was discussing how the changes occur,” Griffith said.

“In the U.S., we tie health insurance to our jobs, but with the ‘Great Recession,’ numerous people were losing their jobs.

“This was happening at the same time health insurance premiums were skyrocketing. So if you look at these two main events occurring, you could almost predict something major was going to have to come out of Washington to deal with it. And that’s when they came up with the Affordable Care Act.” Kentucky is one state on the forefront for the Affordable Care Act as it is the only state in the South to fully implement these provisions. The commonwealth is being closely monitored by the federal government to track progress and ensure that proper pro-

cedures are followed.

According to a site for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, some key features of the act include discounts for seniors citizens, protection against health care fraud and free yearly wellness visits.

There are also new policies to protect consumers. One law is that insurance agencies must justify the need for policy rate increases of 10 percent or more before they can be implemented.

The Affordable Care act also prevents consumers from disqualification based on pre-existing health conditions.

“Let’s say if when you were a teenager you had bad acne,” Griffith said.

“The insurance company could go back in your records, pull the fact that you once had acne and say they’re not going to cover this skin cancer you have. And they can’t do that anymore.”

The Affordable Care Act also makes promises that women will no longer pay more than men for health insurance, as their rates historically tend to be higher. This particular change will take affect in January.

One provision that affects many college students is the extension of dependent health care coverage. The maximum age to remain on the same plan as parents was extended from 22 to 26.

Griffith says its policies like this that are showing a statistical increase of those covered under dependent health care. His classes evaluate such changes in numbers and discuss why it’s happening.

Sasha Hasanagic, a Bowling Green senior majoring in health care administration, has been studying policies of the Affordable Care Act. “Health care is always changing — it’s very complex,” Hasanagic said.

“I think in the long run, there will be positive changes. Eventually it should boost the economy.”

While there are positive possibilities for the Affordable Health Care Act, there are many challenges along the way. One major issue that health care administrators are dealing with is the implementation of re-admission fines.

The Affordable Care Act states that hospitals with patients re-admitted within 30 days are subject to penalties.

The reasoning behind the law is that patients should receive a higher quality of care, remaining at health facilities until they are in optimal condition.

This is leading to a higher demand for ACOs, Accountable Care Organizations, developed to provide proper care for patients with long-term health issues. These organizations are currently run by volunteers in the health care industry, designed to serve those enrolled in Medicare programs.

Hospitals are also struggling to fill orders for procedures like MRIs, which were filled by volume in the past but are now evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

“People doing their residencies talk about the stress that’s overtaking management because of these changes,” Griffith said. “It’s a very trying time to be in the health care industry.

“This is not an industry where you want to go to work every day and deal with the same thing over and over.

If you want a job like this health care is not for you, because right now it is in a state of change.”

Enrollment for health care through the Affordable Care act is available until March. Health coverage benefits will begin in January. Kentuckians can enroll for insurance through the website kynect.ky.gov.

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New limit to priority registration unfair

THE ISSUE: Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, said last week that students with priority registration, excluding seniors and graduate students, will be limited to signing up for 16 hours of classes this spring instead of the full 19 hours formerly guaranteed to persons with disabilities, honors students and athletes.

OUR STANCE: This decision is a poor one. It does not promote initiative within what is arguably one of WKU’s biggest academic assets, nor is it fair, limiting students who came to WKU with the promise of full priority registration to partial priority registration.

We were informed last Thursday that one of those reasons is about to be limited in the upcoming registration for spring semester classes.

This decision is a mistake for several reasons.

First, student opinion was never solicited for what is essentially an entirely stu-

dent-centered issue.

The Student Government Association hasn’t spoken about imposing a limit on priority registration. It’s never even been an issue for debate.

There was no poll on TopNet — not even a semiannoying, ignored paper questionnaire outside Fresh Food Company, like they do with what cereals we want each semester.

There was no student discussion on this issue. Instead, Emslie decided on this policy change.

Second, this is unfair to any freshman, sophomore or junior honors student who came to WKU expecting priority registration up to 19 hours.

Emslie said in a Herald article Thursday that some of these students were using the system to register for six classes then dropping one each semester.

And that is an excellent point to be considered, because it fills up seats in classes that other students might want to take.

But what about the stu-

dents triple majoring who need the full 18 or 19 hours each semester to graduate on time?

Naturally, the opposition would respond, “Yes, but how many students are in that situation?”

Um, hello? We’re talking about honors students here, the same ones applying for Fulbright Grants and spending semesters in Brazil.

Third, this is just not what these students have paid for — including athletes and students with disabilities.

They were promised something by this university, and they have the right to do with those 19 promised hours what they please, which includes dropping a class each semester.

We’re aware of the bitterness that exists from some students over the fact that honors get first dibs on classes. We realize that for some people reading this editorial, this change seems totally fair to limit some of the “preferential

treatment” that WKU bestows on its students in the Honors College.

So to be clear, there are bright, gifted individuals seeking three majors and changing the world inside and outside of the Honors College. We’re not trying to say that all the smart students are in the Honors College, so their interests ought to be protected.

We simply wish to point out that there are clearly a lot of bright students in the Honors College that will one day bolster the reputation of WKU through their future careers.

And to further clarify, not all of us on this editorial board are honors students, but we can all see the value in retaining a policy guaranteed to students who very well may need to use it.

There’s a reason that the adage goes, “You get what you pay for.”

It’s just plain right.

This editorial represents the majority of the herald's 9-member editorial board.

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Women's magazines detrimental to readers

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ions, screaming headlines, girly colors and well-developed layouts. However, regardless of the satisfaction of a new, This column is supposed to be ex- glossy and perfumed magazine lying clusively about fashion, but because on your lap on a cold fall afternoon, the fashion scene on WKU’s campus they are as harmful as they are beautihasn’t changed drastically since the ful. last time I wrote, I will devote Only three minutes of exthis space to talking about posure to images published in women’s magazines in relation current women’s magazines to fashion, beauty and fitness. greatly increases the risk of I remember my grandfadeveloping a distorted self imther buying my first magazine age, according to research conwhen I was 6 years old. Later, ducted at the University of Misas I grew up and my interests souri. changed, my choice of magaJennifer Nelson, a former zines changed with me. Howfreelance writer for such magaReinfelde ever, since that first Barbie zines agrees and has released Columnist magazine in 1997, I have never a book called "Unbrushed Nastopped reading, and my intertion: The Lure and Loathing of est in monthly glossies has turned into Women’s Magazines." a career.

“While the average woman is fivePretty much everything about foot, four-inches tall and wears a women’s fashion and lifestyle maga- size 12, the magazines are filled with zines attracts readers — the beautiful women who are five eleven and wear photos, pretty models, amazing fash- a size 2,” Nelson wrote. “They all seem

to hover in the twenty-something age bracket, and their bodies are as mythic as Greek goddesses, whether sporting bikinis for magazines like Fitness and Shape or decked out in couture for the covers of Vogue and Elle.”

My love for food is bigger than my wish to count calories. Therefore, I always skipped those pages, advertising the latest, groundbreaking diets and fitness moves that supposedly help to lose a lot of weight in just a couple of days.

However, I know many girls struggling with their body image just because of some fictional, media-promoted beauty standards, even though they look absolutely good and healthy.

Besides crazy and literally impossible dieting as well as fitness, another story is about fashions portrayed in the magazines.

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Community races through campus for annual 10K

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BY ARLA O’NEAL NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM Runners from all over the city and state had primed themselves to compete in the 34th Medical Center 10K Classic.

The annual race snaked its way through WKU’s campus on Oct. 19, starting at University Boulevard before

winding through Fountain Square and finishing in Smith Stadium. Approximately 2,300 runners participated in the race.

“If they can do it, I can do it,” Doris Thomas, race director, said.

Runners participated in four different events, each of which catered to different strengths. They were the 5K walk/run, the 10K wheelchair race, the 1.5 fun walk and the 10K children’s classic.

Carol Ann Gilbert, a Warren County Elementary School teacher, worked the registration table for the children’s classic and said the kids were excited to run the same route as the adults because they got to feel big.

“It teaches kids to have fun with physi-

cal activity and future fitness,” Gilbert said.

There were about 400 children registered for the 10K children’s classic.

This was the first year that students were able to run the same route as the adults. They completed the first 9K during school hours and ran the last 1K on Saturday.

Although the rain became a chilling factor in the race, the racers didn’t give up.

First-time racers Venica Pollard and Melinda Houghton both participated in the 5K run.

“This is so much fun and everyone cheers everyone on,” Houghton said.

“It’s very exciting.”

Pollard ran her first 5K in less than 25 minutes and has already set goals for next year.

“I want to run under 25 next year, and try to be able to do the 10K,” she said.

Seven wheelchair participants navigated the same 10K route as the runners and completed the route in record times.

Summer Shade junior Stefanie Tudor watched the participants and said there is no way she could do that.

“It’s raining, but they are still going,” she said.

The crowd grew louder as each wheelchair crossed the finish line.

This was the first year people were able to use the stadium and cheer from the stands as runners crossed the finish line.

Thomas emphasized how much they appreciated and utilized WKU volunteers. Around 300 students from sororities and fraternities operated the water stations, registration and food tents, and performed other tasks as needed.

“We could not do it without them,” she said.

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WKU food pantry hopes ‘Food Fight’ will increase donations

BY ANNA LAWSON LIFE@WKUHERALD.COM The WKU food pantry has taken to the Internet to help those who are hungry in the campus community.

Sarah Arnold, coordinator of the food pantry, said the “Food Fight” is an organized way for different groups around campus to create teams and gather donations for local pantries.

Students join teams online, and give donations. At the end of the event, all food that is donated on the website is given to the pantry. Students and staff can create their teams within departments or join a pre-existing team of their choice.

Crystal Hardeman, coordinator of student activities for Leadership and Volunteerism, said the idea came up because they wanted to participate in Make A Difference Day, and since it fell on Homecoming weekend, it was an easy way to get the entire university involved.

“We wanted it to be easy for people to help donate to a great cause, but still be able to do it from a distance,” she said.

The majority of the teams are sororities, fraternities or different departments. Anyone can donate online at www.yougivegoods.com/contest.

The competition will last until tomorrow.

Arnold hopes the effort will give the food pantry more visibility and increase donations.

“This will greatly benefit the food pantry by helping publicize the pantry as well as bring in a lot of donations,” said Arnold. “The last time I looked at the website we had already been donated over 300 pounds of food. Which I'm not sure what that will look like, but it seems like a lot of food.”

By doing this over the Internet, students are able to easily help their campus community.

“The click of a button on this website could literally be helping someone in their class, in their dorm, or someone working in the building,” she said.

“That one small donation, whether it be a box of ramen, or a few cans of soup, can go a long way and I think it’s important for students to see that.”

Arnold said there are many other ways for students to get involved in

the fight against hunger. Anyone can post flyers around campus or share the page on Facebook and Twitter. To take a bigger step, students can volunteer at different events throughout the year.

“We’ve had a few classes use the pantry for projects and students have enjoyed being able to focus their thoughts to something real and on campus,” Arnold said.

She hopes this event will raise enough donations to support the food pantry through the winter months.

“In the future, I would like to see more organizations around campus get involved and maybe add more pantries to donate to,” Arnold said.

Hardeman said she hopes this competition will give people a reason to donate and get involved right here on campus.

“We should all be ready to fight hunger,” she said. “So many people right here in Bowling Green are faced with the struggle of not having food.

This is our push to help everyone in the community.”

The Food Pantry is located at the Gender and Women’s Studies House, 1532 State St. Hours of operation: Monday: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Tuesday: 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Wednesday: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursday: 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Friday: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

The food pantry accepts any non-perishable foods (please nothing expired), personal hygiene products, can openers and cloth shopping bags.

Mokone leads WKU runners at Evansville meet

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team win of the season.

Saturday marked the second consecutive meet sophomores Hinken, LeThe WKU men’s and women’s cross ver, Carlin and Shofner posted careercountry teams wrapped up the regu- best finishes. lar season on Saturday at the EvansCoach Erik Jenkins praised the effort ville Invitational in Evansville, of his Lady Topper runners.

Ind., with one of their top “We had all our women finperformances of the season. ish in the top-10, and that’s The Lady Toppers captured something we’re excited top honors as a team, and juabout,” Jenkins said. nior David Mokone claimed Hinken’s second-place finfirst place individually for the ish was the second of her career men's team. and her time of 17:38.56 topped All five Lady Toppers ran her previous record by nearly their way to career-best 5K 17 seconds. The meet was the Jenkins finishes. Sophomore Lindsey second time this season and Coach Hinken (second), sophomore fifth time in her career that Hinken finished first among Katie Lever (third), sophomore Taylor Carlin (fifth), junior Jodi Lady Toppers.

Mokone captured his first-career inMiller (sixth) and sophomore Baylee Shofner (seventh) all finished in the dividual title, leading WKU to a secondtop-10, and together they collected place team finish, its best of the season.

23 team points en route to their first He crossed the finish line nearly 20 sec-

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The new guys — redshirt junior guard Trency Jackson and junior forward Aaron Adeoye — showed Topper fans what they bring to the table.

Jackson scored 19 points, knocking down five three-pointers in the process, while Adeoye flashed multiple post moves.

Both new guys said they are adjusting well in their first semester on the Hill.

Jackson said fans should get used to the fast pace — coach Ray Harper has the team playing a full-court press on defense in practice.

“This year is going to be fun,” he said. “Coach Harper got us pressing.

We’re playing a fast-paced game because we have more athletic dudes and it’s going to be fun.”

Jackson, a transfer from Texas Tech, has to sit out until the first semester is over, per NCAA rules.

He proved to be an electrifying athlete in the dunk contest. He didn’t win the competition because he was unable to finish his dunk in the last round — he tried to do a 360 where he took

the ball between the legs after throwing an alley-oop pass to himself — but his efforts received cheers from the crowd.

Adeoye was crowned champion after completing a two-handed reverse jam in the final round. He said he stuck with his game plan throughout the competition. “(Trency) had some nice dunks,” he said. “I knew I was going to go out there with my little routine and it worked, I guess, because he missed his dunks.”

After the contest was over, Jackson treated fans to an extra dunk.

Sophomore guard Percy Blade took a basketball and went into the second level of the crowd. Jackson waited at the three-point line as Blade tossed the ball from the crowd.

The ball bounced once off the floor and Jackson grabbed it with his left hand, brought the ball back behind his head and finished the dunk with force.

Jackson said he wasn’t disappointed in losing the dunk contest. He said it just felt good to be out there in front of a crowd and that he can’t wait to be eligible to take part in regular-season action.

“It’s the rules, but I’m just glad to be out there in front of a crowd,” Jackson said.

The Toppers will take the floor for the first time as a team on Nov. 2 when Campbellsville University rolls into Bowling Green for an afternoon exhibition game.

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onds faster than his closest competitor in the 8K race.

Mokone was WKU’s top runner in each of the team’s four regular season meets, and recorded his ninth career top-10 finish in a cross country race on Saturday Freshman Peter Agaba posted a fifth-place finish in his first career cross country race, coming in at 26:00.06.

Sophomore Aaron Stevens also recorded a career-best 8K finish, and clocked in at 26:07.03 for eighth place. Freshmen Kamohelo Mangoejane (27th) and Josh Amos (46th) rounded out the Topper runners.

Jenkins said he was encouraged by both teams’ performances.

“For the women to come in first and the men to finish second is a big posi-

tive for us,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins said the meet was what the teams needed to get ready for the Sun Belt Conference Championships, WKU’s next meet. The Sun Belt cross country teams will meet to compete for the conference title on Nov. 2 in Troy, Ala. “This was a great meet to prepare us for the Conference Championships,” said Jenkins. “They are in as good a shape as they’re going to get.”

Jenkins hopes the momentum from this win will translate into the team's preparation for the conference championships.

“We’re going to bring this with us when we head down to Troy, Alabama,” Jenkins said.

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Lady Toppers’ win streak snapped in Arkansas BYJONAH PHILLIPS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM The Lady Topper soccer team dropped its first game since Sept. 13 over the weekend as WKU went 1-1 in a pair of road games.

WKU (8-4-4, 6-1-0 Sun Belt Conference) fell at Arkansas State 3-0 Friday before finding its footing in a 1-0 win over Arkansas-Little Rock on Sunday.

Coach Jason Neidell said with two regular-season games left, the Lady Toppers have a lot to improve upon.

“We need to work on our collective team defending, possession through the midfield and being more dangerous on the attack,” Neidell said.“That’s going to be our focus in practice moving forward to this weekend.”

Friday’s loss to ASU (9-6-2, 4-3-0)

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“She’s always been able to shoot it,” Heard said. “But her bread and butter is in the post…it’s good she can have the opportunity to step out and make the three, but we also want to make sure that where she was able to get 16-and-11 last year was in the post.

“Ruta has been coming along each

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Neither team has had success protecting the football this season. WKU still remains at the

broke the Lady Toppers’ six-game winning streak. The team had gone 6-0-2 in eight games since it was last defeated.

The Lady Red Wolves only fired four shots, but three of them found the back of WKU’s goal. The result was WKU's first SBC loss.

“We got out-worked and out-competed,” Neidell said. “With that being said, (Arkansas State) was very opportunistic — they scored three goals on four shots.”

ASU scored eight minutes into the first half when the Lady Toppers misplayed a Red Wolves corner kick and accidentally knocked the ball into the goal.

Minutes earlier, senior goalkeeper Nora Abolins had slipped in the muddy conditions while blocking a corner kick. In an attempt to defend WKU's

goal in a safer manner, Abolins tried to punch the ball out of the box, but a miscue popped the ball into the net.

With that goal, Abolins’ goalless streak was snapped at 582:30 — the second longest record in program history. WKU had shutout its previous five opponents before Friday’s 3-0 loss, and had not allowed a goal since Sept. 22.

ASU forward Loren Mitchell delivered two final blows late in the second half, netting both goals in a three-minute span to shatter WKU's chance for a comeback. The Lady Toppers walked away from the game with their first Sun Belt loss since Sept. 30, 2012.

Sunday’s matchup yielded a more favorable result for the team.

Freshman forward Iris Dunn netted her third game-winning goal of the season in the 79th minute at UALR (4-12-0,

1-6-0) to push the Lady Toppers past a Lady Trojan squad.

With four saves in the match, Abolins was a powerful force between the goal posts. The senior goalkeeper and the back line recorded their eighth shutout of the season.

The Lady Toppers have two regular season games left, which includes their home finale Friday against Georgia State.

Neidell said he hopes to see his team improve before the Sun Belt Conference Tournament.

“We need to play better," Neidell said.

"We haven’t been playing well the past three or so weeks. To our credit, we are still scraping out wins, but we just need to play better. We have several things we need to work on to get a better product out on the field.”

and every day…We’re excited about that. It gives Chastity an opportunity to kind of play back at her true position at the four.”

Govan got going on the offensive side of the floor early on, but her defensive prowess highlighted her play, picking up several deflections with her active hands. The 5-foot-10-inch San Antonio native, who averaged 20.3 points per contest last season, was also a vocal leader for the Lady Toppers during the scrimmage.

Heard, who was named Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year last season, said she was excited to have the opportunity to show off her new players and full roster to the Lady Topper fans.

“It’s exciting for the group,” Heard said. “What we’re trying to do is get the opportunity for people to get a chance to see our new players, and now we have a full roster. I’m just excited.”

The women’s basketball team will

face Kentucky Wesleyan in an exhibition matchup on Oct. 29 in Diddle Arena.

Heard said the Lady Toppers need to focus on avoiding miscues and improving as a whole before their first test of the season.

“We have to take care of the ball a little bit more,”Heard said. “…But it’s been fun. We’ve been getting better, and I’m looking forward to continuing to get better for our exhibition game that is coming up.”

bottom of the NCAA with 22 turnovers and Troy ranks No. 90 in the country, having turned the ball over 14 times.

The inconsistency in the team and the inability to protect the ball is what Petrino said has been the difference for his team in WKU’s three losses.

“Maybe some of it is we’re so young and new in the schemes and what we’re doing, but we aren’t playing as well as we should for four quarters,” Petrino said.

“We’ve had some games where we have executed and found ways to win, we just have to work hard

and get better at it.”

While it’s hard to move past a loss, it’s required of a team. Freshman linebacker Kalvin Robinson said he believes it is important for the team to not only look at what they have to fix, but what worked well in their wins.

“I feel like every game that you play, you always learn something about yourself and also learn something about your team,” Robinson said. “So we just look back at our old games and figure out what we can do to make us better and we’re just going to be a better team overall.”

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stretch of the season.

“In pursuit of a conference championship, they’re all big right now,” Hudson said. “We’re at the halfway point. It’s going to continue to be about us getting better at things. If we do that, I think we’ll be fine.”

The Lady Toppers came out with the sweep against UALR, but it wasn’t easy. WKU won the three sets by scores of 28-26, 25-20 and 25-21.

Junior middle hitter Heather Boyan said a tough win like that was good for the team.

“That was definitely a really good match for us to show how we’ve grown as a team,” Boyan said. “We started out at the beginning of the season where we’d be down a few points and it’d be hard for us to come back.

“I think we’ve come a long way. We have that mentality where we’re not going to give up no matter how far down we are.”

The team held one of the nation’s top scorers, UALR junior Edina Begic, to 12 kills in the match.

Entering the match, Begic was averaging more than five kills a set and earlier this year, recorded 36 kills in one match.

“She was a little banged up,” Hudson said about Begic. “She rolled her ankle about a week ago or so.

She’s still awfully good. She certainly wasn’t her normal self.”

WKU won at Arkansas State by a comfortable margin, with Boyan leading the way with 11 kills and five blocks, including four straight kills to end the match in the third set.

Boyan led the Lady Toppers over the weekend, recording 24 kills in the two matches. For her efforts, she was named the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career.

Senior setter Melanie Stutsman had another strong weekend for the team as she tallied 82 assists in the six total sets, good enough for an average of more than 13 assists per set. She was also honored by the Sun Belt as the Setter of the Week for her efforts.

WKU will hit the road again this weekend as the team travels to Monroe, La., for a match against Louisiana-Monroe (5-20, 1-8 SBC) on Friday. The Lady Toppers defeated the Warhawks earlier this season 3-1.

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Senior forward O'Karo Akamune dunks during Hilltopper Hysteria on Saturday. IAN MAULE/HERALD

Toppers show high-flying ability

BY TYLER LASHBROOK SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM The men’s basketball team showcased a mix of returning talent and unfamiliar faces at Saturday’s Hilltopper Hysteria.

Seven new Toppers were on the floor for Saturday night’s event — freshman guard Payton Hulsey, freshman guard Brandon Price, redshirt junior Trency Jackson, junior forward Aaron Adeoye, freshman forward Ben Lawson, sophomore center Daouda Soumaoro and redshirt freshman guard Chris Harrison-Docks.

Adeoye said it was exciting to perform in front of WKU fans for the first time. “(Coach Harper) said, ‘Just go out there and play around,’” Adeoye said. “So that’s what we did,

you know — we just had fun with it.”

The familiar faces reminded Topper fans of WKU’s last two Sun Belt Conference Tournament title runs with explosive plays.

Junior guard Kevin Kaspar, senior guard Caden Dickerson and senior guard Brandon Harris all knocked down three-pointers during the inter-squad scrimmage.

Junior guard T.J. Price knocked down a handful of deep threepointers and finished a couple drives to the basket as well.

The Toppers also showed off their ability to dunk the ball as well.

Junior forward George Fant threw down a thunderous back door alley-oop with one hand less than a minute into the game and redshirt sophomore forward Nigel SEE HYSTERIA PAGE 8

Heard impressed with start to season

BY KYLE WILLIAMS SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM Saturday night at Diddle Arena, WKU fans got the chance to get their first look at the new Lady Topper basketball team.

The Lady Toppers took the court along with the men’s basketball team for Hilltopper Hysteria, WKU’s annual celebration to kick off the basketball season.

The Lady Toppers — who finished last season with a record of 22-11, a 13-win improvement from the season before — were the first to hit the floor following the introductions for an intra-squad scrimmage in front of an estimated 4,200 fans.

Freshman center Ruta Savickaite was aggressive early and gave the White team a sizable advantage through the first five minutes

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of play. The 6-foot-4-inch Lithuania native recorded the first seven points for the White team and finished with a total of eight.

Familiar faces also impressed for the Lady Toppers in their 20-minute scrimmage in the form of junior forward Chastity Gooch and junior guard Alexis Govan.

Gooch, who was third among sophomores last season in rebounding with over 11 boards per game, drained both of her attempts from beyond the arc. The 6-foot junior — who recorded 33 doubledoubles last season — normally isn’t a threat from deep, but coach Michelle Clark-Heard said Gooch has always been a capable shooter and that the presence of newcomer Savickaite will give her some freedom offensively.

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Toppers ready to move on from ULL loss Volleyball team

BY ELLIOTT PRATT SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM It’s been a week since WKU’s 37-20 home loss to Louisiana-Lafayette last Tuesday and one week since the Toppers’ chances of a Sun Belt Conference title got a lot harder. Moving on to the next opponent after a loss is an obstacle that comes with the nature of sport, but that doesn’t mean it comes across easily.

Coach Bobby Petrino said no loss is easy to swallow.

“I’ve always envied the basketball coaches and the baseball coaches where they lose a hard game and they can go right back to work the next day and play again,” Petrino said. “When you lose a football game, it’s hard. We try to get it over within 24 hours and put it to bed. It’s still very, very difficult.

“It was hard for us last Wednesday. Junior quarterback Nelson Fishback tries to avoid being tackled during WKU's loss I think our players came in last Thurs- to Louisiana-Lafayette at WKU on Oct. 15. DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/HERALD day and Friday and worked very hard.

I do think we have a good attitude and But the Trojans (4-3, 2-1 Sun Belt Con- in like three weeks,” Baisch said. “It’s ference) have had some time to rest as good to get back to a normal week and that will help us.”

It will have been 11 days since WKU well. In WKU’s case, players like senior we have to get right back on and have (4-3, 1-2 Sun Belt) last played a football fullback Nick Baisch are glad to be to get playing again.”

Troy enters the game after back-togame when the team takes the field for back to a normal schedule.

“We haven’t played on Saturday Homecoming Saturday against Troy.

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back on track after two sweeps

BY AUSTIN LANTER SPORTS@WKUHERALD.COM The Lady Toppers bounced back from last week’s loss to LouisianaLafayette with a pair of sweeps and Arkansas-Little Rock and Arkansas State this weekend.

UALR (15-6, 7-2 Sun Belt Conference) was previously unbeaten in the Sun Belt Conference and sat atop the league standings before the 3-0 loss to WKU Friday night at home.

The next day WKU traveled to Jonesboro, Ark., to play Arkansas State (10-13, 6-3 SBC) which resulted in another sweep for the Lady Toppers. WKU (18-5, 8-1 SBC) has now swept 12 opponents this year and is alone at the top of the Sun Belt standings.

Coach Travis Hudson said the two wins should help the Lady Toppers as they enter the final SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 9