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Two SJ&B majors to move schools BY MONICA KAST HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

Messages containing sexually explicit language were also found written in chalk on campus. This messages also expressed satisfaction regarding Trump’s victory. Other messages called for the deportation of certain minority groups. Vickrey said she first saw the messages on Nov. 6 when she was walking back to her dorm around midnight. Vickrey claims she noticed several

The advertising and public relations majors will be moving from the School of Journalism and Broadcasting to the communications department, according to Potter College of Arts and Letters administrators. Larry Snyder, Potter College dean, said the goal of the transition will be for the two departments to officially move into the communications department for the fall 2017 semester. “If we can move it any faster then that, we will,” Snyder said. “This is a process though, and it’s going to take a good year to make this a smooth transition.” Snyder said by moving the advertising and public relations departments to the communications department, they would be “strengthening all those departments.” Additionally, Snyder said as Loup Langton, director of the SJ&B, is stepping down as director this summer, it would be a good time to make the change as a new director is hired. “If we were going to make the change … it would be better to do it now, rather than later,” Snyder said. According to the WKU 2016 Fact Book, there were 97 students with a major in advertising, and 139 students with a major in public relations in 2015. Together, the two departments make up 28 percent of the enrollment in the SJ&B. In 2015, there were 253 students enrolled with a major in communications, according to the WKU 2016 Fact Book. Helen Sterk, department head of communication, said they would be “starting the conversations this academic year” about how to successfully move the two departments. Sterk said she was “very excited about the possibilities” that would come from the move. “I think that Dean Snyder saw this as kind of a great opportunity that was going to serve both PR and advertising, and communications,” Sterk said. “What we’re discovering with the students in [communications] is that they need more skills development, so it would be a great benefit to communications to have PR and advertising join us.” Sterk also said there would be benefits for public relations and advertising by giving the students in those majors “access into the communication classes.” Both Snyder and Sterk said the skills development of the advertising and public relations departments would benefit the communications department. “We’re moving from positions of strength,” Snyder said. “This lifts the ceiling of opportunity.” Langton said he found out about the move last month from Snyder. He said that it was a “surprise” to find out that advertising and public relations would be moving to the communications department, and he didn’t have details about what the move will look like. “I think that the success or non-success of it will depend on the details,” Langton said. Langton said he was unsure of how the change would affect the advertising and public relations departments. “I don’t have the details,” Langton said. Langton also gave a written statement to the Herald outlining his thoughts and concerns with moving advertising and public relations, which can be viewed in full online. Other schools with nationally recognized programs in media have gone a different direction than WKU.

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Anti-Trump protesters confront Trump supporters during a protest Wednesday outside of Pearce-Ford Tower. The anti-Trump protest began around 8 p.m. and was joined by counter protesters before being dispersed by police. Jeff Brown/HERALD

Protests, angry messages create conflict across campus after Trump wins presidency

BY EMMA COLLINS HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

Following the results of the 2016 presidential election, a series of protests along with verbal and written messages have created a tense climate on WKU’s campus. After Donald Trump was declared winner of the election in the early hours last Wednesday, supporters and those who do not agree with him have publicly as well as anonymously shared these disagreements. The conflicts started almost immediately, with protests and confrontations, and grew to the point that both President Gary Ransdell and Student Government Association President Jay Todd Richey released a joint statement calling for the university community to calm down and resume showing respect for each other. “Over the past few days, our university community has witnessed numerous incidents of hateful behavior ... ,” Ransdell and Richey wrote in the letter released late Friday. “This is absolutely unacceptable.” The largest conflict occurred Wednesday night, when students who opposed Trump held a protest outside of Pearce-Ford Tower. Several students chanted as they held up signs denouncing Trump, and the display eventually drew a large crowd of both Trump opponents and those who support him. As the protest grew, the atmosphere quickly turned hostile with several altercations occurring between those with opposing views. Some students burned holes in Trump campaign banners while others yelled chants. The crowd attracted the attention of the campus police, and eventually the Warren County Sheriff’s Office was called. Sheriff’s deputies arrested five students for refusing to leave and disorderly conduct. Marianna Baker, an 18-year-old from Junction City, was one of the students arrested. Baker said she believed the protest was necessary because of the election results. “I think it was needed,” Baker told the Herald as she was being arrested. “I don’t think it was violent in any way. I think it was some people coming together to express their opinion in a very intense time.”

Louisville senior Kane Reye´s, 22, embraces Owensboro junior and Delta Zelta sorority member Ariel Moore while the sorority gives out free hugs on Friday at Centennial Mall. Kathryn Ziesig/HERALD Earlier last Wednesday, a group of anti-Trump protesters, including some WKU students, marched from the Warren County Justice Center to Fountain Square Park. Participants held signs criticizing the president-elect. Since the election, some students have also received anonymous notes containing negative messages referring to race, religion and sexuality. Princeton freshman Helen Vickrey, a member of the Student Government

near the top of the hill. The poster called for white people to take a stand against anti-white propaganda and to end white genocide. It contained links for two white supremacy websites. “I have received many pictures of not only from campus but of Bowling Green in general of people receiving either threats or receiving notes that fall into that of a hate crime,” Vickrey said. “And every time I have seen ‘Trump 2016’ on these notes.”

I don’t think it was violent in any way. I think it was some people coming together to express their opinion in a very intense time.” Marianna Baker, student arrested at PFT protest Association and chair of MyCampusToo, said a fellow SGA member showed her a racist note his Pakistani friend had found outside of his apartment at Hilltop Club, formerly College Suites. The note contained a racial slur and ended with “Trump 2016.” Several similar notes posted on Facebook referenced Trump and said it was “time to purge.” Vickrey said she was also sent a picture of a poster found on campus

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WKU student Andre Dowell voted for democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after he decided that she was “the lesser of two evils” compared to Republican President-elect Donald Trump. “I wasn’t really in support of either candidate,” Dowell said. “I just knew I had to vote for one, and I agree with more of Hillary’s views than I do with Trump.” Dowell, a senior from Brandenburg, believed that Clinton’s views on racial and legal issues were more aligned with his own beliefs. “I just know that Hillary is for more equality than Trump is,” he said. Dowell said that he supports the recent protests on campus following the election, includ-

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messages outside of Downing Student Union that said “build that wall” and “deport them all.” Similar messages were found written on the ground on Thursday night and Friday morning. A group of students spent several hours canvassing campus and washing off the derogatory messages. Some of the messages were also cleaned off by the university’s facilities staff on Friday morning. One message read, “America is now great Obama sucks (explicit)” with “Trump 2016” below. Other messages used explicit language when referring to Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. In response to the messages, students began to write positive messages such as “you are loved.” Those messages and the purely political ones such as “Trump 2016” were not washed off by the students. In response to the unrest on campus and the protest near PFT, Ransdell released a statement urging the WKU community to treat each other with respect. He encouraged the community to make an extra effort to embrace one another. “Our African-American students and our international students, particularly our Muslim students, and those in our LGBTQ family may be feeling a sense of uncertainty,” Ransdell wrote. “We love them all and treasure what they bring to this richly diverse family.” Ransdell’s statement was emailed to all faculty, staff and students and posted on his Facebook page. Many of the comments on his post praised Ransdell for releasing a statement that urged unity. Other comments, however, accused Ransdell of discriminating against white people, particularly white males. One individual referred to Ransdell as “Gary ‘white people don’t [sic] deserve respect’ Ransdell.” Others called Ransdell ‘hypocritical” because of his different response four years ago when President Barack Obama was elected to his second term in office. “It is great to live in a nation where the people decide who shall lead,” Randsell wrote on Facebook on Nov. 7, 2012. Those who called him hypocritical criticized Ransdell’s change in tone

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ing the chalk drawings for and against Trump and the demonstration in front of Pearce-Ford Tower on Wednesday. “People are just expressing their freedoms,” Dowell said. “People are expressing their ideas. That’s honestly what college is for.” While he knows that not everyone is happy with the results of the election, Dowell believes we can all learn from the protests. “Honestly, I think it makes us well-rounded,” he said. “It makes us open our eyes to new ideas. Yes, [the outcome] might not be what you wanted it to be, but you’re able to see what’s going on and how you’re able to make a change for tomorrow.”

— Jamie Williams for Trump’s election. They said he did not offer any words to those who were upset by Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012. Several people who commented also accused Ransdell of racism against white people because of a tweet made after election day by Alexandria Kennedy, student activities coordinator and former adviser for Greek organizations. In the tweet, Kennedy used explicit language to refer to people who had voted for Trump as “racist” and “homophobic.” Some people who commented on the post accused Ransdell of racism because of what they perceived as his lack of response to Kennedy’s tweet. Kennedy could not be reached for comment at time of publication. Director of Student Activities Charley Pride said Kennedy still works for Student Activities but is no longer the adviser for greek organizations. The statement from Ransdell and Richey late Friday, which was published on the Herald’s website, urged students to take action if they see someone being targeted. “Be kind to one another, support one another, and do all that you can to keep this place open to all,” the statement read. “We will stand with all of you every step of the way.” The Division of Student Affairs Social Justice Working Group, the Counseling and Testing Center and the office of the Chief Diversity Officer also opened up space for discussion when they hosted an open discussion forum Friday evening. “Several members of the university community will be present as we gather to engage in dialogue about election results, get to know one another, and explore ways we can create a more cohesive and respectful university community,” an email announcing the event said. During the conversation, participants, many of whom were minorities and women, expressed their fear about the next four years. Haley Lee, a senior from Hardinsburg, said she heard about the event from her African American literature class. Her professor suggested students attend the event after the class had an emotional discussion about the election. “I was crying, other people were crying,” Lee said. “Some students already talked about how they already received hate.”

Goshen freshman Jacob Karaglanis voted for the Republican candidate and now president-elect Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. He then participated in a protest at Pearce-Ford Tower last on Wednesday to show how “ridiculous and unproductive” the protest really was, he said. “I didn’t like either of the candidates personally,” he said. “I was originally a supporter of John Kasich, and I’m a Republican voter, so I wanted to back my party more than anything, and I didn’t trust Hillary very much.” Karaglanis said protesting can be effective, but once it becomes angry, it becomes unproductive. “It is easy to say it from my perspective because my candidate won, but I think that all the protesting has been fueled by anger and hate,” Karaglanis said. Karaglanis particpated in the protest by wearing a speedo and an American flag while standing on a wall outside of PFT. “To me, it was the perfect opportunity to show people how ridiculous this is, by being ridiculous,” Karaglanis said. Karaglanis added while he

Lee said she was particularly scared because of the derogatory comments Trump made about women. Earlier this year, video surfaced of Trump having a lewd conversation about women in 2005. Lee said those comments were especially disturbing. “It makes me sick to my stomach and also slightly fearful because he is now representing us and people are going to look up to him,” Lee said. Other participants in the discussion said they were scared because people seemed more open to expressing racist beliefs after Trump won. One woman spoke about comments her young niece had received from classmates. Another woman described the president elect’s win and his comments as

made light of the situation, he believes both parties are justified in how they feel. “I realize that Trump is very inappropriate and immature, and he also didn’t win the popular vote,” Karaglanis added. “That is something that could easily fuel anger, so they definitely have a right to be angry and a right to protest.” Karaglanis wishes everyone would support the president-elect and hope he does well now that the election is over. He doesn’t think people should show hatred toward people who voted differently. “I personally have seen a lot of hatred during the protests from both sides,” he said. Karaglanis reiterated being a Trump supporter doesn’t mean you should oppose people who voted for Hilary. “I want to see more unity,” Karaglanis said. “We are all Americans. We are all neighbors. There is no reason to be filled with hatred. There is no point in dividing ourselves.”

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“disturbing.” Other faculty and staff members have organized events in order to help ease students fears surrounding the election. The day after the election, Lacretia Dye, assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Student Affairs, held a meditation following the election to reduce “sadness.” “Tonight we can sit together in meditation and hold space for each other,” Dye said in the announcement for the event.

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eSports team moves into permanent space BY MONICA KAST

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The WKU eSports team has begun competing in a winter league and received a permanent practice room as well as a faculty coach. In September, the Herald reported the team was looking for a permanent practice room and was temporarily using space in the Student Government Association office. According to John Hay, Louisville sophomore and eSports team coordinator, the team has been given a practice room in Garrett Conference Center. The team has also been given refurbished computers from the IT department, which will be moved into the room after minor renovations. Hay said the room will be “wired” and furniture will be moved into more permanent locations in the room. “The room will be wired for Ethernet and power, and they just want to get it so it’s clean in here, in terms of cables and they’re not running up the walls and stuff,” Hay said. After the room is wired, 12 Alienware computers will be moved into the

room and the team can begin practicing and competing from the room in Garrett, Hay said. Hay said now that the team has a permanent location to practice, its partnership with Twitch, a website which broadcasts video game competitions, will go forward. According to the team’s Twitter and the Twitch website, they have begun streaming competitions on Twitch. “They were waiting on us to have a few key things in place in order for them to justify the partnership at the varsity level with us,” Hay said. “There’s certain things that varsity programs are known to have … like a designated space, of course, teams and equipment for the players to have.” The League of Legends team won its first preseason match against Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia. Of the three games that make up a match, the team won the last two. Because it was not able to use the new space yet, the team played in the SGA offices. The Division I team has won all four matches they have played in this semester, according to the team’s Twitter. On Nov. 12, the team won against

Centre College for their fourth win of the semester. Additionally, the Division II team has experiences success, winning against Indiana Tech on Nov. 7, according to the team’s Twitter. Andrew Renfrow, a desktop support consultant at WKU, has recently been appointed coach of the team. According to Hay, Renfrow has experience in gaming. “My top priority is getting the room situated so they have that available to them,” Renfrow said. “There’s a lot of different areas involved in making sure we get that complete. There’s a lot of moving parts.” Renfrow said he would be the person to “oversee the team” and make sure regulations for the league are followed. “My role moving into it is going to become more of an administrative coach,” Renfrow said. “Basically I’ll be more of an administrative point of contact for the eSports group, as far as the university is concerned, so I’ll be meeting with some of the people on campus to try to help build the program.” Both Hay and Renfrow said a prior-

ity is getting people on campus interested in the team and competitions. Hay said they would like to broadcast the competitions to somewhere on campus that students could gather to watch. “Basically right now is to, one, get the room set up and going, and then after that we can start planning some events as far as people coming out to watch them,” Renfrow said. “We have a lot of ideas as far as streaming their game play out so the campus community can watch that. After we get them established on campus first, we can really start to build a base for them.” Hay said the team is still in need of people for administrative roles, and the team does a lot to be “self-sufficient.” The team has created a second competition team, but are still in need of assistant coaches and student volunteers, according to Hay. “We really only have the student body to lean on,” Hay said.

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Sophomore, international enrollment declines BY CALLIE MILLER HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU Sophomore and international student enrollment at WKU have declined, according to the fall 2016 enrollment report. The report also shows a one percent increase in total enrollment. Sophomore student enrollment decreased seven percent, or 211 students in total. However, this change isn’t necessarily attributed to low retention. More first-time, first-year students are enrolling at WKU with previously earned college credit. This allows those students to skip sophomore classification in the annual enrollment census by progressing to junior status by their second year. Additionally, there was a decrease in readmits and transfer students coming in as sophomores. “The incoming quality of the class remains strong,” Brian Meredith, chief enrollment and graduation officer,

said. “You have to look at it beyond just the number. There are a lot of factors bombarding that classification.” Approximately 45 percent of students are coming to WKU with previously earned college credit through Advanced Placement and dual-credit programs, Sharon Hunter, director of strategic enrollment management and retention support, said. Scholarships for transfer students are being offered for students with 60 previously earned credit hours and a junior standing. Therefore, students are choosing to transfer as juniors to receive these scholarships. “As we evolve our scholarship program over the last couple of years we’ve made these transfer scholarships marketable and attractive to students so they may be choosing to come in as juniors from two year schools,” Meredith said. Hunter said the trend in retention has been relatively flat at close to 73 percent, but she hopes to see an in-

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crease. “Retention is going to be our focus,” Hunter said. “We are thankful for the emphasis on the decrease in sophomore numbers because it’s helped us capture and focus everybody on retention, which is the next step.” Hunter said the decrease in sophomores is a good problem to have because it means students are graduating earlier which is cost-effective for the students. “We have become more efficient in getting a student out in an average of four years,” she said. The number of international students enrolled at WKU has also decreased. The number of Saudi Arabian students has dropped 13.3 percent since last year. The number of Chinese students has declined 13.9 percent. “You’re always going to have shifts in enrollment from various countries because there are so many different variables,” Stephanie Sieggreen, director of international enrollment management said. “We try to stay attuned and try to forecast as much as possible,” Sieggreen said. The International Student Office follows the political and economic climate in foreign countries, which factors into the number of international students who come to WKU. Political and economic changes in those countries can affect students’ opportunities to study abroad. “This is something we’ve known about for the past couple of years,” she said of the decline in the international student population at WKU. Sieggreen said she was expecting the decline in Saudi Arabian students at WKU, but that she had no way of knowing exactly when those numbers would fall or by how much. Even after the drop, WKU is still the second leading institution in the nation for Saudi Arabian students, following Kent State. “When we’re talking about enrollment, you always want to surpass what

you’ve had, but when you know you’re already one of the top ones, to try to beat that every year, you know that it’s going to take a dip at some point,” she said. The ISO recently implemented a five year plan to help those numbers grow again. New leadership, new support structures, economic forecasting and sustainability with other partnerships abroad are part of that international student recruitment plan. WKU’s international diplomats are also working to bring more global variety on campus. Sieggreen said the international enrollment management is making efforts to revitalize academic programs and initiatives that WKU has had success with in the past. Sieggreen said she didn’t think there is an ideal capacity of international students, but she just wants to try to make WKU the right fit for any student. “The thing that makes WKU special is that it’s a big-small place,” Hunter said in regards to the entire university, including all students, not just those within the traditional demographic. “Your faculty know you. It still feels warm. If you get too large, it doesn’t have that same feeling.” Meredith said enrollment management is really more of an art than science. An enrollment size of about 20,000 is an “environment that we’ll probably continue to see in coming years because we’re a well-branded institution,” he said. “We want to have the resources to give every student that world class education, but we want to be large enough to be global in our scope and to offer the majors and experiences that students demand,” Hunter said. “Is that the right size? It’s a feel thing. I don’t think there’s a formula.”

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Connecting advertising and public relations to the School of Communication will have some effects on the programs. Snyder said there would be some changes in curriculum offered over time, and those changes would be “worked out over the next year or so by faculty.” He said students already in the program shouldn’t be concerned about curriculum changes. “No student will be left out in the cold,” Snyder said.

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gone a different direction than WKU. An example would be Indiana University’s Media School which, according to its website, offers journalism degrees and media degrees with concentrations in public relations or media advertising respectively. Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications offers undergraduate degree programs and certificates concentrated for journalism and marketing tracks according to its website, but are also connected to mass media techniques and advanced technology.

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THE ISSUE: Following the election of Donald Trump, several cities and campuses across the U.S. have responded in protest, including WKU. OUR STANCE: The right to peaceful protest is as American as apple pie and we stand by that right. In the wake of this historic election, we advocate reaching across the aisle and plead for empathy and real dialogue. However, there are some behaviors and ideals we cannot afford to normalize.

Voters from across the U.S. went out to the polls last Tuesday to cast their ballots. Later that night, we huddled in front of our televisions and kept refreshing Twitter on our phones as we eagerly awaited for the results to surprise us like presents on Christmas. Come Wednesday morning, we unwrapped our presents to discover Donald Trump had become our president-elect. Some were elated with the gift while others were dismayed. Anti-Trump protests have erupted all across the country in cities such as Washington D.C., San Francisco, Manhattan, New York and Los Angeles. In Portland, Oregon, 71 protesters were arrested during a demonstration and one protester was shot and injured, according to The Oregonian. WKU has not been immune to the reach of protests either. Protesters gathered in front of Pearce-Ford Tower last Wednesday night, and it soon drew the attention of campus police and the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. Five people were arrested for “failure to disperse” and “disorderly conduct.” Marianna Baker was one of the protesters who was arrested. Baker told a Herald reporter she thought the protest was necessary for people to express their feelings about the election. “I think it was needed; I don’t think it was violent in any way,” Baker said. “I think it was some people coming together to express their opinion in a very intense time.” It’s unsavory to see something that started off as a space for students to come together in solidarity erupt into yelling and the grabbing and

tearing of flags. The Herald won’t stand to see this campus turn to violence. Yet, these protests are not surprising because some people are afraid. People of color are afraid, Muslims are afraid, Hispanics are afraid, LGBT folks are afraid and women are afraid. The Bowling Green Police Department is investigating possible hate crimes in the form of threats and vandalized property, according to the Daily News. The Washington Post reported an increase in the calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline following the election results. Between 1-2 a.m. last Wednesday, the lifeline rang 660 times. People have moved past Republican or Democrat into life or death. How can we expect people to just “get over it?” Get over it? Trump campaigned on dividing people. Implementing an (unconstitutional) nationwide stop-and-frisk policy, banning Muslims from entering the U.S. in an attempt to curb terrorism, building a literal wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and threatening to weaken the First Amendment’s protection of a free press. Honestly, Trump’s been going back on so many of his campaign promises we can’t definitively say what he believes, which is terrifying in and of itself. By any stretch of the imagination, this is not normal. David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan leader and white nationalist (white supremacist) called Trump’s win a victory for “our people.” Recently, Trump appointed Steve Bannon, former executive chairman of alt-right website Brietbart News as his chief strategist. This man has gained a place in the West Wing and we have no other reaction than disgust. We cannot afford to normalize and rationalize this behavior and rhetoric. At its core, these protests are not a bold-faced rejection of the election results but a rebuke against hatred and bigotry. But in the midst of this fear, people have taken to bashing people who voted for Trump saying they’re sexist, racist, hateful, etc. Surprise, there’s nuance to that, too. People who voted for

Trump aren’t necessarily those things; there are extremists on both sides, but we can’t lump everyone together. Take Judy Pennington from Elliot County as an example. She voted for Obama in 2008, according to the Associated Press, but voted for Trump because she felt left behind and forgotten, especially in regards to the coal industry. Tracie St. Martin in Ohio, in an interview with ProPublica, said she too had voted for Obama but was leaning toward Trump for the same reasons Pennington was. “I wanted people like me to be cared about. People don’t realize there’s nothing without a blue-collar worker,” St. Martin told Pro Publica. We’ve heard from several Republicans and conservatives, of which Trump totally isn’t, that they’re also angry, upset and saddened with their party. They’re coming under fire for either having voted for Trump or being Republican which accomplishes absolutely nothing and further alienates us. Where do we go from here? For the love of everything good, everyone needs to get out of their echo chambers, both the left and right, and actually come together. But the only way we’re going to do that is if we sit down and talk—and we mean really talk. No more sidestepping issues of race, class or education because we’ve ignored that and it’s erupted in our face. Be receptive of differing opinions up until those opinions become legitimately dangerous for other people’s lives. “More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of goodwill. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people,” Martin Luther King wrote in Letter from a Birmingham Jail. If you want to protest hatred in lieu of normalizing it, then protest. Do it peacefully and create beautiful trouble. If you want to wait and see how things will turn out then it’s your right as well. But some people have never had the time to do that.

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There is much work to be done after election BY BRANDON CARTER HERALD.OPINION@WKU.EDU

There is much work to be done. This is the sentiment I have carried since last week when the Associated Press made the call: “Donald Trump will be the President-elect of the United States.” This is not a political column, not the musings of a millennial distressed over America’s future. This is not a think-piece, not empty words about polling and voter turnout and the feasibility of the Electoral College written from a position of white male privilege. This is a statement of solidarity. I sincerely hope president-elect Trump meant it when he pledged to be a “President for all Americans” in his victory speech. I hope the divisive rhetoric that was the cornerstone of his campaign will not seep into his

presidency. But as the week since the election has unfolded that rhetoric has reared its ugly head, and so we must stand up. We at the Herald stand alongside the 22 percent of our university’s student body that identifies as minorities. We stand with Hispanic students, as a man who once accused a U.S. district judge of being biased against him due to his Hispanic heritage and a man who began his campaign calling Mexicans “criminals” and “rapists” was elected president. We stand with the 57 percent of WKU students that are female, who have spent the last month listening to sound bites of our next president talking about “grabbing women by the pussy,” who said, “when you’re a star, they’ll let you do it.” We stand with members of the LGBT community as a president is elected

whose party platform opposes the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to legalize same-sex marriage throughout America and whose vice president has been a supporter of conversion therapy. We stand with WKU’s Muslim community as a man who has proposed banning all people of Muslim faith from entering our country steps into the Oval Office. I and the rest of the Herald staff stand undeterred in the face of intolerance, and we remain steadfast in our commitment to report the truth, to hold the powerful accountable and to give a voice to the voiceless. There are those who seek to destroy the unity of our campus behind the thin guise of anonymity. Let this be a rallying cry to all members of our community: they will not succeed. We firmly agree with the sentiments

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Twice a semester, the gender and women’s studies department puts together a luncheon called Genderations in an effort to spread ideas and educate the community. “The Genderations luncheon is something that we’ve been doing for many years,” Kristi Branham, director and associate professor of gender and women’s studies, said. “We’ve had over 102 presentations since we started this, like ten years ago or more. So it’s a great opportunity for WKU students, faculty, staff and the community to share their work related to gender and women’s studies and that’s what we’re doing today.” For the second Genderations this fall semester, two speakers, Alayna Milby and Melissa Bond, came to explain the luncheon’s title, “What can gender and women’s studies do for you?” The topics included how the program has helped them both in their careers and day-to-day lives. “I was invited here by Dr. Branham to speak about my experiences with the gender and women’s studies program and how it helped me to get my position at Hope Harbor, the rape crisis center, and also make me the person that I am today,” WKU alumna Alayna Milby, crisis intervention specialist at Hope Harbor, said. Milby said the program has helped her to realize how these issues of social justice impact people’s lives every day as well as giving her the resources to enforce her ideas. “I realize how important this stuff is and how it really affects people,” Milby said. “Obviously I’m really passionate about it, and taking these courses, I have the research and the facts to back up all of these feelings, all these passions about people. Being aware of how complex these issues are and how it can really affect people.” Milby said one of her favorite parts of speaking at events is getting to spread her passion and knowledge of gender and women’s studies. “I get this opportunity to basically be kind of a teacher and carry on what these professors, specifically

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Itunu Francis, senior from Nigeria, takes a pie to the face from Louisville junior Sharon Brooks during Pie Face Day on Thursday, Nov. 10 at Centennial Mall. The event was hosted by Alpha Kappa Psi to raise money for their fraternity. Evan Boggs/

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Whipped cream and pie-crust plastered faces were in Centennial Mall last Thursday afternoon for Alpha Kappa Psi’s first ever “Pie Face Day” fundraiser. Members of the business fraternity volunteered to be “pied” in the face by passersby who were willing to donate a dollar to the fundraiser. “It’s weird, but stress just left my body,” Grayson junior Dana Biechele said after smashing a pie into the face of Alpha Kappa Psi member Sharon Brooks. “This has been an awful day, and that was probably the best part.” Brooks, a junior from Louisville, said she and her fraternity brothers came up with the idea for a pie throw fundraiser at one of their meetings. “We were thinking something that would be fun and hopefully attract people,” Brooks said.

Throughout the semester, the fraternity hosts different events which include a business week to offer resources and encourage student success. Students of all majors and grade levels are welcome to join, Brooks said. “We’re basically professional development,” Brooks said. One of the focuses is training for interviews, resumes and how to present yourself to the business world, she explained. Louisville senior Will Gaines said community service is also an important part of Alpha Kappa Psi. “Without the community, we wouldn’t exist,” Gaines said. Some of Alpha Kappa Psi’s service projects include working in food kitchens and with Golden Arrow, an outreach ministry in Louisville. Alpha Kappa Psi senior Itunu Francis of Nigeria was the first to get a face full of whipped cream at Pie Face Day.

“My face smells like dairy,” Francis said as she rubbed whipped cream off her face and out of her hair. “But we’re making money.” “We’re trying to get stuff done around campus, and we need money for it,” Louisville junior Taylor Sanders said. “We’re just trying something fun, something new that people would like to do.” “Come on, pie me,” Sanders called out to students walking past Centennial Mall, grabbing the attention of Whitehouse, Tennessee freshman Danny Zeidan. “There’s no throwing, I just put it in his face? Yeah, that sounds fun,” Zeidan said before paying a dollar to smear Sanders’ face with whipped cream. “It was kind of fun, I guess,” Zeidan said. “Just something to do. Yeah, I guess it made my day better. I think it is a good idea. Only a dollar to put a pie in someone’s face. It’s the deal of the century.”

Francis said being a part of the fraternity has given her a good opportunity to network in the business world at WKU and at other university campuses. The group participates in various conferences and conventions, which is part of what the money from Pie Face Day will go toward. “I like the brotherhood part of it,” Francis said. “We’re all different and have different personalities, but we can still come together no matter our differences. So that’s the best part.” Gaines said he enjoys the brotherhood he found with Alpha Kappa Psi. “We come together,” Gaines said. “We have fun; we enjoy ourselves. We have each other’s back. And we love each other.”

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Debbie “Queen Bee” Eaton introduced snap bead jewelry to the craft show. “It’s kind of addictive,” Eaton said. “Once you get started with the beads, you want more. Women like to change their hairstyle; they like to change their clothes; they like to change their makeup; why shouldn’t they change their jewelry?” Eaton decided to start selling her craft when it simply became too expensive to buy brand-name jewelry. She began selling her work this August. Michele Miller and Larry Casey decided to combine his talent to create wood items with her talent of wood burning to create decorative items such as wooden snowmen and Christmas themed logs. “We mainly do it for the extra money, but we enjoy coming to craft fairs,” Miller explained. “People really appreciate looking at them, even if they don’t buy anything.”

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rosemary. She learned how to make the products through Pinterest, a social media website. Bowling said the hobby started out as just making Christmas gifts for people. “All of these are handmade with love, beer and mild swearing, which I’m sure Western loves being affiliated with,” Bowling joked. “I also made little white squirrels; I hope WKU won’t sue me for those.” For Donna Bellinger of Bowling Green, the motivation to sell her craft came from retirement. “I can’t stand not to be busy,” Bellinger said. “I want to have something going on all of the time.” She sells fairies and mermaids made of silk flowers and charms, each one uniquely dressed. Former WKU professor Marsha Skipworth brought Christmas cards, Christmas cookies in a jar, spiced tea and cocoa to sell at the craft show, using her own recipes. “I enjoy making my cards and coming back to campus to see everybody that I don’t get to see every day, because I’m retired now,” Skipworth said.

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Continued from SPORTS the season, delivering a near shutout and holding a UNT team that averages 347 total yards to just 232. The Topper defense came into the contest ranked as the 11th best rush defense in the nation and with the exception of a 71-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, held the Mean Green rushing attack in check. WKU limited UNT to just seven first downs and 115 yards on the

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into the game. The early three-pointers were just two of the 13 three-pointers the Lady Tops hit all game, which tied a school record dating back to 1996. The Lady Bulldogs and Lady Tops continued to trade baskets until redshirt senior Micah Jones found Tashia Brown just before the buzzer to give the Lady Tops a 20-10 lead at the end of the 1st quarter. Despite finishing the game scoreless, Jones tallied a team-high 12 assists to break double figures in one statistical category. “I was really proud of how our veterans came out,” Clark-Heard said about the fast start. “Defensively we came out with a lot of intensity and did some good things and everything started rolling from there. I was especially proud of Micah sharing the

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ground, 30 less than the 145 yards the Mean Green are averaging on the season. “Throughout the whole season, everybody has been playing gaps and that’s been our main focus on stopping the run,” graduate transfer defensive lineman Nick Dawson-Brents said. Dawson-Brents, a graduate transfer from Louisville, finished the game with three tackles and one tackle for loss and said he appreciates his short time at WKU.

“Even though at Louisville we won a lot, it’s still good to have people that are backing you up the whole time, backing you up and tapping the hat,” Dawson-Brents said. “Everything is just so valuable to us and I feel like we should cherish this moment.” For an offense that averages six touchdowns per game, it was only fitting that all of the Toppers’ scores on Saturday came from seniors. “We’re really happy and proud of seniors,” Brohm said. “They really laid the foundation and they’ve

worked their tails off. We’ve got some fourth year guys, some three year guys some two year guys and some one year guys. But all of them have done an outstanding job this year.”

ball, getting everyone involved and getting 12 assists.” WKU began to pour it on in the second quarter. After the Lady Tops scored the first seven points of the quarter, Alabama A&M’s Josta Totten was able to connect from three point range to cut the lead to 14 points. However, those would be the only points for the Lady Bulldogs the rest of the period. Shortly after the Lady Bulldogs’ lone bucket, Jones found junior forward Ivy Brown for an easy three-pointer to push the lead back to 17. Noble then stole a Lady Bulldog pass and found Tashia Brown for an easy bucket which highlighted a 14-0 run to give the Lady Tops a 41-13 halftime lead. Noble’s steal was just 1 out of the 20 steals the Lady Tops recorded all night. “I think we were really clicking of-

fensively and defensively,” Ivy Brown said after the game. “Everyone was making the extra pass and finding the open man. We were very aggressive on defense. We had 20 steals and those carried over to the offensive side.” The Lady Tops continued to stay hot in the second half. Clark-Heard used a lot of the second half to get younger players and fresh legs in the game. Freshmen Sarah Price (7 points), Whitney Creech (7 points), and Malaka Frank (2 points) all scored in their first official game in a Lady Topper uniform. Redshirt sophomore guard and University of Kentucky transfer Jaycee Coe also tallied 14 points (4-10 from 3-PT) in her Lady Topper debut. “You don’t want to just play five people. That’s something we emphasize in practice,” Ivy Brown said. “The

bench stepped up really big tonight. They were a little shy at first but once they got comfortable they hit some big shots.” The Lady Tops outscored the Bulldogs 55-19 in the 2nd half en route to the 96-32 victory. The Lady Tops host the University of Texas-Arlington (1-0) tomorrow night at 5:30 p.m. Last year, the Lady Tops defeated the Lady Mavericks 73-64 in Arlington. “UT-Arlington has a big player who is really good,” Clark-Heard said. “They’ll press and do a lot of different things. They’ll get to the rim and mix things up. It’ll be a good challenge for us.”

didn’t just play I thought they all added, too.” Senior forward Anton Waters came off the bench to put up eight points on four for five shooting. Waters also grabbed eight rebounds and got a

block in 19 minutes. Another player that came in to add a spark off the bench was freshman guard Marty Leahy. Leahy scored his first official points as a Topper with a three-ball from the corner and then hit another one from deep not too long after to finish with six points going two for three from three-point land. “It [his first points] felt really cool,” Leahy said. “Before the game Stansbury just said go in and play my game. Pancake Thomas kicked it to me in the corner and I didn’t even think about it, I just released and it went in; it felt nice.” Stansbury was happy with the play from the big Australian guard. “He’s a guy that can make shots,” Stansbury said. “[Marty] is a smart player.” Redshirt senior guard Thomas, the hero from the Kentucky Wesleyan College game, was the second leading scorer against Alabama State ending the night with 15 points and going eight for eight from the charity stripe. Junior forward Justin Johnson and redshirt senior guard Junior Lomomba each finished with nine points and senior forward Ben Lawson had

eight. Next up for the Tops is Jacksonville State University from the Ohio Valley Conference, a conference WKU was once a long time member of, however, that’s not the only relationship the two universities have. JSU is led by former Topper Head Coach Ray Harper. This will be the first game for Ray Harper in Diddle Arena after resigning as the head coach after the 2015-16 season. Tip-off for the matchup is set for 8 p.m. on Wednesday, at Diddle Arena. Stansbury saw improvements from his team, but knows there is still room to improve. The Tops will likely have a tougher test on Wednesday as JSU has already beaten the University of Tulsa this season. “I thought we guarded that bounce better,” Stansbury said. “We still give up way too many offensive rebounds. Y’all have heard me talk about the concentration and communication part of it. We were better at that tonight.”

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Branham said. In the future, Branham hopes to possibly have a Genderations focused on sports. “I was thinking about doing one on sports,” said Branham. “So I’m thinking in near future, not long terms, but we do two a semester typically, so it’s just a very informal setting for those of us in the gender and women’s studies community to get together and help each other out.” Milby says she hopes the students who attend her talk explore the options of pursuing their passions and interests throughout college. “It makes your experience at a university, I think, that much more rewarding when you are in classes, and you are talking about topics that are important to you and that you’re passionate about,” Milby said.

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Dr. Branham, taught me in my undergrad,” Milby said. Jacklyn Henry, a sophomore majoring in psychology, said students on campus can benefit from coming to these events and seeing how many things can be done within the department. “[I learned] just what Hope Harbor does and how they contribute to the community. And how gender and women’s studies has helped her become better at her job and how it really helped her find her passion,” Henry said. Branham said her favorite part about the department hosting these events is getting to see how past students have grown. “I’m looking forward to reconnecting with student’s who have gone through our program, and graduated, and gone on to do great things,”

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Tops roll Mean Green on big day from seniors BY EVAN HEICHELBDECH HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU WKU moved one step closer to a conference championship appearance with a 45-7 romp of North Texas in the Hilltoppers’ home finale on Saturday. It was senior day for 24 players on the Hill, and one of them made his impact felt from the very first snap. Senior wide receiver Taywan Taylor ran a deep post route and hauled in a second-down pass around the 20-yard line, shook one defender and walked into the end zone to give the Toppers an early 7-0 lead. On the first play of the next possession less than two minutes later, Taylor caught a long pass on the same route taking it in for another score, this time for 75 yards. “It’s everything that anybody dreams of,” Taylor said. “Just knowing how far I’ve come and the rest of the seniors and the opportunity that coach Brohm gave us from day one, it means everything

Lady Tops cruise in season opener

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HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The WKU women’s basketball hosted Alabama A&M last Friday at Diddle Arena to open the 2016-17 regular season. Five different Lady Toppers scored in double figures while junior forward Tashia Brown (13 points, 10 rebounds) and redshirt senior guard Kendall Noble (12 points, 10 rebounds) both recorded double-doubles as the Lady Tops cruised to an 96-32 victory to start the season 1-0. The matchup also served as a homecoming for Alabama A&M Head Coach Margaret Richards, who made her head coaching debut after serving as an assistant under WKU Head Coach Michelle Clark-Heard from 2012-15. “It was a good opportunity to be able to coach against someone who brought so much to this program as an assistant,” Clark-Heard said “A credit to Margaret and her team. Her team plays hard and they will continue to get better.” Thanks to two early three-pointers by Noble and sophomore guard Kayla Smith, the Lady Tops jumped out to an 8-0 lead just two minutes

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to me. Being able to play in front of those fans and being able to accomplish everything that I’ve accomplished in front of those fans out there, it means a lot.” At the end of the first quarter, the school’s alltime leader in catches, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns had four catches for 159 yards and two touchdowns. He finished what could have potentially been his last game in Smith Stadium with six catches for 166 yards and three touchdowns. While Taylor seemed to be catching everything redshirt junior quarterback Mike White threw, he wasn’t the only one scoring touchdowns for the Hilltoppers. Another pair of Topper seniors set up the next score for White. After senior defensive lineman Omar Bryant fell on a loose ball from a strip sack of UNT quarterback Mason Fine, White found senior wide receiver Nicholas Norris in the end zone on a 33-yard strike. Norris eclipsed 1,000 yards receiving for the season on his five catches for 90 yards on Saturday. “They’re an outstanding duo of receivers,” Brohm said of Taylor and Norris. “They make it

hard on the defense. They’re playmakers … They understand that whether we win or lose it’s going to ride on their shoulders. I’m just very proud of their accomplishments that they’ve had in their career and throughout the year and they’re two guys that we’ll severely miss.” With just 27 seconds left in the first half, redshirt senior running back Anthony “Ace” Wales took a three-yard carry across the goal line for the fourth and final first-half touchdown scored by a senior. Wales finished the game with 121 yards, his third consecutive 100-yard rushing performance. The Toppers took a 31-0 lead into the half having out-gained UNT 351-55 in total yards. WKU — fifth in the nation in total yards — finished the game with 543 against the Mean Green defense. “It’s very satisfying as a coach when your players show up with the mindset that they know what has to happen in order to win,” Brohm said. “We made some big plays on offense.” On the other side of the ball, the Topper defense played arguably its most complete game of

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WKU takes down Alabama State BY MATTHEW STEWART HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The WKU men’s basketball team (1-0) opened up their regular season in Diddle Arena Saturday night with a matchup against Alabama State University (0-1). Behind a team-high 16 points from redshirt senior guard Que Johnson, the Hilltoppers defeated the Hornets 79-66. The Toppers were without starting sophomore forward Willie Carmichael as he was suspended indefinitely from the team before the game due to a violation of team rules. “You never like to deal with it,” Head Coach Rick Stansbury said. “When you don’t make the right decisions, there’s accountability. There will be accountability in our program, always.” When asked if Carmichael would return this season Stansbury said, “We will wait and see -- don’t know.” Despite missing a pivotal player, the Tops were able to open up the Stansbury era at WKU on a positive note with the victory. “The first one is always the toughest,” Que Johnson said. “We played with a lot of energy and effort. Coach is always talking about communication and concentration; I feel like we did good on that.” Que Johnson was the leading scorer and rebounder for the Toppers in the matchup. The 6’6” guard earned his 16 points behind five for nine shooting from the field while grabbing nine boards, almost enough for a double-double

Senior forward Ben Lawson (14) dunks during WKU’s 79-66 win over Alabama State on Saturday, Nov. 12, at Diddle Arena. Ebony Cox/HERALD performance. Johnson also posted one block and two steals in the effort. “For the first time tonight I saw Que Johnson play at another level defensively,” Stansbury said. “I thought his effort was better. He got nine backboards, thought he was better offensively.” “He [Stansbury] talked to me at shoot around,” Que Johnson said. “He asked me what’s going on, I focused on defense a lot today, effort and rebounding that was a big thing that he talked to me about. It was just more of a mindset for me.”

In the most recent exhibition match against Kentucky Wesleyan College, the Toppers had three players that were on the court for at least 45 minutes. Saturday was a different story as the Toppers had 10 players that saw game action and chipped in for 22 bench points compared to 16 from the Hornets. “It means so much, when you get guys in particular the amount of minutes we’ve been playing, you just can’t do that,” Stansbury said. “It

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