November 9, 2017

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Which name would you prefer: Mass Media and Technology Hall or Jody Richards Hall?

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Construction on PS3 nears completion

BY EMMA COLLINS

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

WKU’s third parking structure will open for the first time for visitors on Friday, for WKU’s Head for the Hill event.

Parking Structure 3 will provide parking for the influx of visitors registered to attend the recruitment event. Head for the Hill is WKU’s free, open-house event for visitors interested in learning more about WKU, according to the event’s webpage.

PS3 will also be used on Saturday, Nov. 17, when the WKU football team plays Middle Tennessee State University, said Jennifer Tougas, director of Parking and Transportation Services. She said the parking structure would officially open on Nov. 20.

“At that point, we will increase our C1 permit sales to pull commuters to main campus,” Tougas said in an email.

However, construction will not be finished by Nov. 10, Tougas said. She said gates still need to be installed.

The gates are expected to be installed during the week of Nov. 13, Tougas said.

Construction on WKU’s third parking structure began in fall of 2016.

Bryan Russell, chief facilities officer, said the original design for the $10 million structure included six floors with between 500 and 600 spaces. He said a seventh floor and an additional 100 parking spaces were later added to the design.

The structure now has around 670 parking spaces.

“This is truly a great Bryan project for our stuRussell dents,” Russell said in an email.

Chief Tougas said PS3 facilities would house H9 perofficer mit holders. She said it would also serve as an overflow zone for anyone with main campus parking permits.

Tougas said all campus residents who park on South Campus should be able to park on Main Campus at the end of the semester. She said Parking and Transportation would discontinue the Sunday shuttle service, which was added to compensate for the loss of parking spaces due to SEE PS3 • PAGE A2

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Donté Clark of Richmond, Calif., answers questions about the film he stars in, ‘Romeo is Bleeding,’ at the Capitol Arts Center, Tuesday Nov. 7. The documentary screened highlighted a play Clark wrote as an urban adaptation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and how spoken word enabled him overcome the cycle of violence within Richmond, Calif.

WRITE TO LIVE Artist group aims to unify minorities

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laq Art Nouveau, a WKU-based group of student artists, aimed at unifying minorities through the expression of artistic abilities, hosted poet, playwright and activist Donté Clark at its Poetry Exchange and Discussion event Tuesday in DSU. Clark, from Richmond, California, has been traveling the United States discussing social justice issues and sharing Romeo Is Bleeding, a 2015 documentary which explores years of violent conflict between North and Central Richmond neighborhoods.

The film stars Clark and follows him through writing and performing his first play, Té’s Harmony, a Richmond-focused adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo Is Bleeding was featured at Bowling Green’s Capitol Arts Center

Tuesday evening. The documentary is available on Netflix as well.

Upon discovering that Clark would be in Bowling Green, Louisville senior, Phi Beta Sigma member, and Blaq Art

”Just for the community itself, it’s really beneficial to hear different perspectives.”

Blaq Art Nouveau president KIJANA “KJ” BEAUCHAMP

Nouveau president, Kijana “KJ” Beauchamp, invited Clark to visit and speak

at Blaq Art Nouveau’s Poetry Exchange and Discussion.

“I knew he was a good person at heart, and I knew he would bring a wealth of knowledge to Western,” Beauchamp said. “Just for the community itself, it’s really beneficial to hear different perspectives.”

Beauchamp cites a variety of perspectives as key to change and believes such variety is foundational to Blaq Art Nouveau.

“We’re just focused on embracing everyone and just facilitating that in an artistic manner, whether that be poetry or dance, writing, playwriting, physical art, visible art,” Beauchamp said.

Blaq Art Nouveau’s focus toward artistry guided the event, which opened with its poetry exchange, wherein students were given the opportunity to share personal poems and pieces.

Beauchamp commenced the exchange by reciting a poem he’d recent-

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Bates Subway ranks in top 25 Subways nationwide

BY NICOLE ZIEGE

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

The Subway located at Bates Runner Hall is among the Top 25 Subway restaurants in the nation, as part of the “Win Like a Boss” incentive promotion.

The “Win Like a Boss” incentive promotion is an incentive based on an increase in customers. The promotion looked at the top 500 Subway restaurants nationally, with the top 25 restaurants winning grand prizes according to WKU News and a Facebook post by the WKU Restaurant Group.

“There was a specific time period for the promotion and certain levels of in-

crease criteria that needed to be met,” the WKU Restaurant Group’s Facebook post read.

Steve Hoyng, resident district manager of Aramark in Bowling Green, said Bates Subway’s placement on the list came from combining last year’s sales with this year’s sales, according to a speech he gave to the Student Government Association Senate on Oct. 31.

Louisville senior Jocelyn Porter said it was “surprising” that the restaurant’s earnings were high, but she “believes it.”

“A lot of students go and eat there who don’t have meal plans,” Porter said.

Porter said she eats at the Bates Sub-

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BATES SUBWAY CONTINUED FROM FRONT Porter said she eats at the Bates Subway once or twice a week because she said that it is “one of the healthier options on campus.”

Louisville freshman Amanda Beavin said she eats at the Bates Subway about three times a week due to convenience.

“Sometimes it’s the only thing open,” Beavin said. “Compared to other Subways, it’s open a lot later.”

Springhill, Tennessee, freshman Lauren Sheppard said she “rarely” eats at Subway. Sheppard said she was surprised when she heard about the award.

“I’m just surprised because it’s really weird,” Sheppard said.

Louisville junior Pascale Fajardo said she has eaten at Bates Subway about twice this semester.

“I wouldn’t have thought that,” Fajardo said, regarding the award that Bates Subway received. “I don’t think their

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ly written, titled “My Identity,” which detailed the significance of his name and how its meaning helped him to eventually better understand himself.

A few students followed with their poems, most of which examined social issues like present-day discrimination, same-race violence and stereotypes.

Next, the event became an open and informal discussion of numerous societal and educational issues.

Students remarked upon individual

service is quite good.”

The Bates Subway also recently got rid of its plastic sandwich bags, replacing them with recyclable paper bags.

Replacing plastic bags with paper was part of a Student Government Association initiative, SGA Executive Vice President Savannah Molyneaux said.

The initiative was to get Bates Subway to use paper instead of plastic and for the restaurant to use stickers to seal up the sandwich bags, Molyneaux said.

“It feels very invigorating and exciting to see the change that we have been working towards for over a year now finally come to fruition,” Molyneaux said. “I greatly appreciate the work of Steve Hoyng from Aramark and the management at Subway for making it happen.”

Students wait in line in Subway at Bates Runner Hall Tuesday night. The campus restaurant ranked in the Top 25 nationally for Subway’s Win Like A Boss promotion.

responsibility in broadening one’s knowledge, the potential of a revised education system, problems associated with misunderstanding the origin and meaning of certain words and how individuals are defined not by their race but by their words and actions.

As opposed to leading or prompting discussion, Clark sat amongst the audience and listened. He listened and smiled and wrote in his journal, only speaking when asked.

When he did speak, he remained seated and constantly gestured, moving his hands and expressing his ideas as clearly and engagingly as possible.

He first mentioned how much he

enjoyed listening to other curious and intelligent minds, then noted the majority of topics are collective issues and warrant discussion among a collective of people.

Clark closed out the event by saying because the same problems are being discussed everywhere else he’s traveled, he believes we all have a part to play in solving them.

As for Clark’s journey with activism, despite financial and environmental difficulties throughout his adolescence, he attributes most of his success to writing.

“I knew that writing was going to be my ticket,” Clark said. “Writing may be the only thing that saved my life.”

Through his writing and work, Clark wants to make known that social issues are “not about your city or your county,” but that they exist in the same way everywhere else. With a collective love and healing process, a collective solution is foreseeable.

Beauchamp said she believes WKU could benefit from more speakers of Clark’s experience and hopes similar events take place in the future.

“I think it is needed on this campus,” Beauchamp said.

to add their names to the new waitlists for those parking zones.

“We will continue to work from the waiting lists until we have moved all residents to main campus,” Tougas said.

The end of construction also means the entire Creason Lot will soon be open for parking. Throughout the construction process, parts of the Creason Lot had been blocked off to allow for construction work, which limited the

number of H9 permit holders who were able to park there.

The completion date for PS3 has changed throughout the semester. An initial timeline gave the completion date as sometime in September. The date then changed to the end of October and is now set to open on Nov. 20.

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Tougas said all South Campus permit holders were notified that the waitlists the Adams Street Lot (H6 permits), the South Chestnut Lot (H7 permits) and the Creason Lot (H9 permits) were recently emptied. She said those permit holders were encouraged

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Climbing competition fundraises for hurricane relief

BY EMILY DELETTER HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

Vertical Excape Climbing Center will host “Climb for a Cause” in Bowling Green on Saturday, Nov. 11, to raise money for hurricane relief in Miami, Florida, and Houston, Texas.

‘Climb for a Cause,’ which will last from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., is the second climbing competition Vertical Excape has hosted, director of operations Evan Karcher said.

“We did a competition in July, which was pretty successful, and I thought it about time to raise as much money as we could for a good cause,” Karcher said.

The initial idea for the competition was brought forward to Karcher by Catherine Malin, a staff member at the WKU Area Health Education Center and member at Vertical Excape.

Malin said she was inspired to find a way to give back after the first set of hurricanes hit Texas.

“All the media outlets and aid organizations were saying the thing that [affected areas] needed most was money for immediate and long-term rebuilding,” Malin said. “Being an active member, I reached out to see if they were interested in a charity event to raise money.”

The competition is a bouldering and top rope combined competition.

Bouldering is traditionally a style of rock climbing based on power and technical climbing. This style in-

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Laura DeLancey, of Oregon, climbs her way to the top while Yvonne Petkus, of New Jersey, provides rope support. The two work in different departments at WKU and have been coming to Vertical Excape for about two to three times a week. “It’s both physical and mental exercise,” DeLancey said.

volves a shorter wall with no ropes, with a foam pad underneath. Because of the advanced nature of bouldering, Vertical Excape only allows climbers age 12 and over to participate.

Top rope has climbers harnessed and attached to a belayer on the ground, who takes in slack rope during the climb. This style is focused on endurance, as the walls are much taller than the bouldering rock walls.

Climbers can compete in three categories based on their skill level — beginner, intermediate and advanced. The climbers will pick which

category they prefer and select a route in that category, Karcher said.

Scores will be based on the two hardest climbed top ropes and the top three hardest climbed boulders, Karcher said. Total points decrease by a percentage for each fall.

Karcher said this kind of competition was most beneficial to the room Vertical Excape occupies, as well as the climbers who will be participating.

“It’s a strategic style of competition,” Karcher said.

Winners of the competition will get additional entries into the group raf-

fle, which consists of donations from several community businesses and organizations including Blaze Pizza, Be Happy Yoga & Salt Cave and Complete Nutrition.

Everyone who enters the competition will get one entry into the raffle.

Additional tickets can be purchased for $2. First place winners receive three extra raffle entries, second place will receive two and third place will receive one additional entry.

Half of the proceeds from the competition will be donated to United Way of Houston. The other half will be donated to United Way of Miami-Dade County. Karcher said those charities were chosen because 100 percent of donations received go directly to hurricane relief.

“Not everything will be going to immediate needs, but also going towards future projects to help rebuild those areas devastated by the hurricanes,” Karcher said.

Signups for ‘Climb for a Cause’ will take place the day of the competition.

Vertical Excape members pay a $10 fee, and nonmembers will pay a $15 fee.

“Last competition we had around 65 climbers, and we hope to reach that number again,” Karcher said. “We have a goal of raising $1,000, and if we get 50 climbers to show up Saturday, we’re already halfway there.”

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SGA hosts beard contest, raises money for cancer

BY REBEKAH ALVEY

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

SGA received a low turnout in entries after launching its first No Shave November beard contest as an initiative to raise money for cancer prevention and sustainability efforts.

During the Sept. 26 SGA meeting, the Senate passed a bill from the sustainability committee funding a beard growing competition for No Shave November. Sophomore Ian Hamilton, the sustainability committee chair, said the competition would raise money for cancer prevention while also demonstrating sustainable methods.

Hamilton said No Shave November started out as a way to raise awareness and prevention of prostate cancer but has spread to cover multiple types of cancer. The concept is for men not to shave their beard for the entire month of November.

After participating in past years himself, Hamilton said he could see how No Shave November could apply to SGA. Throughout the month, participants can donate the money saved from not purchasing shaving supplies.

“I think we need to have more discussions on what [No Shave November] is for and how the efforts can help people who are really struggling with cancer,” Hamilton said.

Junior Dallas McKinney, who serves on the sustainability committee and presented the idea to Hamilton, said No Shave November started as a sustainability initiative. McKinney said by

not shaving, you are demonstrating the reduce aspect of reduce, reuse and recycle.

McKinney said his introduction to No Shave November started at Western Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, where he received his associate’s degree before transferring to WKU. He said not shaving

make an impact.

The SGA bill funding the No Shave November competition passed 25-3, with five abstentions. McKinney said there were some discussion and opposition that the bill was not inclusive of women.

During sustainability committee discussions, McKinney said women in

“Let’s see how we can grow this and benefit a great cause.”

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during November was something he and his classmates did every year.

After doing more research into the sustainability aspects of not shaving, McKinney said he learned that shaving uses a lot of water and accumulates a lot of waste from disposable razors.

He said the most sustainable way of shaving he found was abstaining from shaving altogether.

McKinney said the Office of Sustainability assisted in the event by donating a sustainable shaving kit.

McKinney said events such as No Shave November and other sustainability initiatives show the purpose of SGA improving campus for students and the future. After transferring to WKU, McKinney said he was excited by the opportunity to participate in a committee dedicated to sustainability because there is a greater chance to

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the committee were initially against hosting a beard contest rather than a body hair contest but later agreed it was not very “appropriate.”

In the full SGA meeting, McKinney said some senators brought back the

discussion and attempted to amend the bill to make it a body hair contest.

However, the bill passed in its original form as a beard contest.

This year is the first time SGA has recognized No Shave November and McKinney said there were only four participants.

McKinney said the limited entries could be attributed to lack of recruitment. Although posters were printed across campus, he said many students may be participating in No Shave November but were not aware of SGA’s initiative.

McKinney and Hamilton said they hope to see a higher turnout in the future.

“Let’s see how we can grow this and benefit a great cause,” Hamilton said.

Reporter Rebekah Alvey can be reached at 270-745-6011 and rebekah. alvey660@topper.wku.

CORRECTION •

A story which ran in the Nov. 7 edition of the Herald, “Run, SAE, Run: WKU fraternity runs to Vanderbilt in fundraiser” said the “Run so They Can Ride” event hadn’t happened in 49 years. SAE actually participated in the event until the early 2000s, and it began 49 years ago. The Herald regrets the error.

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Mass Media or Jody Richards Hall?

BY TAYLOR HUFF HERALD.OPINION@WKU.EDU

It’s a controversy that has swept across this campus for the past six months. Ever since our beloved Mass Media and Technology Hall was renamed after Jody Richards, nothing on campus has been the same (except those delicious bagels from Einstein’s).

Richards, a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives since 1975 and a former faculty adviser for the College Heights Herald and Talisman, was honored Monday night during the unveiling of his statue at the building formerly known as Mass Media. We here at the College Heights Herald love getting into the heads of our readers, figuratively of course, so we posed the following question on our Twitter:

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The original name: 91%

First it was Hollywood: rapists shouldn’t walk free

Jody Richards Hall: 9%

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COMMENTS @tcritch1 Come on. He was WKU faculty and Herald faculty advisor for many years and got the money to build the building.

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he floodgates have opened, and the best-kept secrets of powerful men are spilling out.

The scope of Harvey Weinstein’s harassment allegations evidenced a systemic issue that demands resolution.

It is no longer possible to look at harassment as a series of isolated cases, and it didn’t take long for purposeful dialogue to progress following the onslaught of allegations concerning Weinstein’s repulsive actions.

Weinstein’s accusers gave the rest of the public the green light to open up about their own experiences, as it became evident that there is an opportunity to affect change if the numbers add up.

Kevin Spacey was fired from Netflix.

Kentucky Speaker of the House Jeff Hoover stepped down. NPR top newsroom executive Michael Oreskes was forced to resign.

This problem is not just Hollywood’s problem. It encompasses an entire system comprised of various fields and is consequently representative of a societal dilemma that must now be confronted seriously.

The conversation is thriving like never

before, and I’m here for it. But this is just the first step.

Weinstein was the beginning, but he’s still not facing trial. Sexual harassment and assault cases must still be constructed with a particularly careful hand because, unlike many other stems of the justice system, sexual violence cases side with the abuser before the victim even gets a chance on the podium.

Checking into a rehab facility has long been the rich man’s get-out-of-jail-free card. For abusers and misogynists who use their power to threaten others in the name of sexual gain, rehab will not suffice.

Sexual violence is notoriously difficult to prove in a court of law and presents, even more, obstacles in the initial stages before arrest. Rapists shouldn’t get to walk free, but reasonable suspicion is much less broadly applied to rapists than it is to other criminals.

Though the numbers are stacked unfavorably toward Weinstein, building a case that will stand strong enough for him to eventually sit behind bars will prove difficult to say the least. The New York Police Department has begun this process and is gathering evidence in the first allegation deemed “credible” enough to press charges.

Not to say the threshold over which rapists will be held accountable is completely insurmountable, but rather that it will be a long climb before that precipice

comes into view for many.

Public discourse provides a platform on which victims can feel welcomed by the understanding that they do not stand alone. It educates victims and grants them the knowledge that this thing they’ve undergone has a name, has a face and deserves punishment.

It cannot be brushed aside simply because people were not aware that their experiences are more than a feeling of uneasiness about a person’s presence or comments. Abuse and harassment are so deeply ingrained in the roots of everyday interaction that they often go relatively unnoticed or misinterpreted. People make excuses for inexcusable behavior because that’s what they were taught to do.

Aggressive and demeaning advances are not flattering, so stop normalizing them.

A co-worker or superior relentlessly making passes at you, sexualizing you, or inappropriately touching you are not an acceptable quality of workroom banter. These acts establish a demoralizing work environment and contribute to the disgusting notion that others exist to accomplish predators’ penchant for sexual domination.

Begin to normalize debate and lawful action instead. Start the conversation, but don’t let it lose traction until change is actualized. It is a good start, but it is only a start.

REVIEW

Netflix’s new show, ‘Big Mouth’, is raunchy yet informative

BY NOLAN HOVELL HERALD.OPINION@WKU.EDU

“Big Mouth” is Netflix’s new animated adult comedy show created by Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Marl Levin and Jennifer Flackett. In late October, one month after its season one premiere, the show was already renewed by Netflix for a second season.

The cast includes such comedic talents as Jordan Peele, John Mulaney and Jessi Klien as the show explores the issues and experiences that arise during puberty. It follows the life and relationships of high school students Nick Birch, Andrew Glou-

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berman and Jesse Glaser respectively.

The show’s creators are not afraid to relate in accurate detail the awkward, strange and exciting struggles kids deal with when going through puberty. The “Hormone Monster” is a beastly personification of Nick’s pubescent mind that follows him around and arrives at inopportune times to influence Nick’s decision making. He’s curious and outrageous and often leads Nick into trouble. One of the stranger scenes portrays a young girl having a conversation with her vagina as it fills her in on how everything works.

The show fearlessly deconstructs the thought process of adolescents discovering their sexuality and the social circles and hierarchy of high school. There are

plenty of embarrassing and hilarious situations from this but, jokes aside, there is a fair amount of significant information being taught throughout the episodes.

Despite the humor that can, in some situations, stem from sex and sexuality, these are important topics to discuss.

Sexuality can be a tough subject to navigate, but it’s not one that should be neglected. The show’s creators understand this and, they try to combat this confusion with knowledge laced with dark humor. Andrew Goldberg was previously a writer on Family Guy with Seth MacFarland, keeping the tradition of indirectly educating youth about adult subject matter alive.

Although the series has received some

criticism for being heavily sexual and vulgar, it effortlessly encapsulates the arduous transition into adulthood and developing one’s identity. Nick Kroll, whose childhood the show is based around, says the experience of being “pantsed” in the seventh grade in front of his crush inspired the shameless, in-your-face, bold series. The concept is strange and cathartic but it has a good message: we shouldn’t be afraid or ashamed of our bodies. Furthermore, our emotions and hormones are just part of what makes us normal, not some grizzly monster. If you want to see an innovative and original show that’s as funny as it is uncomfortable, then “Big Mouth” is a must-see. Just don’t watch it with your parents.

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SPORTS WKU set for Hawkeye Challenge in Iowa City

BY TYLER MANSFIELD HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU

SHABAN ATHUMAN • HERALD

Western Kentucky University offensive lineman Darrell Williams Jr. (62) holds on to the Boca Raton trophy after the Hilltoppers’ 51-31 win over Memphis on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016 at FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Fla.

LOOKING TO

BOWL

Hilltoppers still in search of bowl eligibilty

BY CAMERON BROWN HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU

The WKU football team has achieved bowl eligibility by October the past couple seasons, rolling to a Conference USA title both years.

But that has not been the case in 2017.

The Hilltoppers (5-4, 3-2 C-USA) all but lost their chance to contend for a third straight conference title after a 42-28 loss to Lane Kiffin and Florida Atlantic at home on Oct. 28, and they dropped to 5-4 on the year after a 3117 setback to Vanderbilt in Nashville on Saturday. But WKU still has the opportunity to make a bowl game for the fourth consecutive year.

“We’re one game away from bowl eligibility; that’s what we have to go out and take care of,” head coach Mike Sanford said. “Whoever the guys are that are going to step up will go through practice this week, and I really believe they’ll do that.”

WKU closes out the regular season with three tough opponents in Marshall, Middle Tennessee and Florida International, needing to notch only one more victory to reach that six-win plateau.

The Hilltoppers will travel to Huntington to face Marshall (6-3, 3-2) on Saturday night, and the WKU offense will have to deal with a stifling Thundering Herd defense. Marshall’s de-

fense ranks in the Top 25 nationally, giving up just 19 points and approximately 329 yards per game.

WKU will then return to Bowling Green for a showdown with rival MTSU (4-5, 2-3) the following Friday night.

The Blue Raiders will be seeking revenge this year after the Hilltoppers stole a 44-43 victory in Murfreesboro last October.

A game at Florida International will be the regular season finale for Sanford and the Hilltoppers. The Panthers (6-2, 4-1) have won six out of their last seven games after getting blown out by now 18th-ranked and undefeated Central Florida, 61-17, in the season opener.

The main thing that has plagued WKU thus far is its ground attack. The Hilltoppers have struggled to run the ball all season, and they did not even rush for positive yardage against Vanderbilt on Saturday, accumulating -6 yards on 30 carries.

“We have got to solve that now,” said Sanford after the loss. “We’ve got to find ways to run the football, or it’s going to be tough sledding every game no matter who [we] play.”

The receiving corps has been a rotating cast of players so far this season, which doesn’t make veteran quarterback Mike White’s job any easier to find a rhythm.

White’s main target is senior Nacarius Fant, who has caught a team-high 41 passes for 385 yards and two touchdowns. Fant is an explosive playmaker

that is good at getting yards after the initial catch, and he will look to do even more on a team that has been hit with injury after injury.

Graduate transfer Cameron Echols-Luper (217 receiving yards) and senior Kylen Towner (173 receiving yards) are still listed as day-to-day with undisclosed injuries, and redshirt senior tight end Deon Yelder is questionable after missing his first game of the year on Saturday.

Yelder has been a bright spot at tight end for the Hilltoppers, as he leads the team in touchdown catches and is second in receptions and receiving yards.

WKU may have another solid rising tight end in Mik’quan Deane, as the junior caught five passes for 57 yards in the loss to the Commodores.

The main thing WKU will have to correct if it wants to go bowling, however, is the number of sacks allowed.

The Hilltoppers are currently ranked 121st nationally in this statistical category, having allowed 29 sacks for a total loss of 214 yards.

“We just have to make sure we sustain our blocks,” Sanford said. “All five guys on the offensive line sustaining their blocks together and then our running backs going between the tackles.

That’s what we have to do.”

Reporter Cameron Brown can be reached at 270-577-1699 and cameron. brown647@yahoo.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Cameron_Brown_3

Michelle Clark-Heard has mentioned multiple times that she sets out every season to find the toughest competition to put on her team’s schedule.

The sixth-year WKU head coach did exactly that for 2017-18, as the Lady Toppers open their regular season slate with a pair of tough games in Iowa’s Hawkeye Challenge, beginning with No. 16 Missouri on Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. “[Missouri] is a top-16 team in the country. Robin [Pingeton] does a great job and they play in an amazing conference,” Clark-Heard said of WKU’s next opponent and its coach.

With a schedule full of tough opponents – especially early in the nonconference part of it – WKU traveled to Louisville last Sunday for a closed scrimmage against the ninth-ranked Cardinals to add additional preparation for this weekend for next Tuesday’s home showdown with No. 6 Notre Dame.

“It really helped a lot and that’s kind of why we scheduled it that way so we could get on the road and go there and make it feel like an away game,” ClarkHeard said. “Louisville is always a consistently good, well-coached team and they do things similar as an SEC team.”

Coming off a 2016-17 campaign that included both Conference USA regular season and tournament championships, WKU tipped off this season with a 101-58 exhibition win over Union University.

“I feel really good about this team,” sophomore guard Whitney Creech said. “The two games really showed us where we’re at and what we need to work on and what we’re doing pretty good at, so I think we have a good feel going into these games and what we can do well.”

Missouri won both of its exhibition games, 77-55 over Southwest Baptist and 80-30 over McKendree, respectively, over the past two weeks. Along with ranking 16th in the preseason poll, the Tigers were selected to finish third in the SEC with junior guard Sophie Cunningham being named to the Preseason All-SEC team.

The Tigers went 22-11 overall and finished with an 11-5 mark in SEC play a season ago. As a then-sophomore, Cunningham averaged 17.5 points per game.

Following Friday’s game against Mizzou, the Lady Toppers will then meet either host Iowa or Quinnipiac on Saturday to close out play in Iowa City. Clark-Heard has a good relationship with Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder from their time with USA Basketball, and she invited WKU to play in the tournament.

Women’s basketball beat writer Tyler Mansfield can be reached at (270) 935-0007 and tylermansfield@ yahoo.com. Follow him on Twitter @_ TylerMansfield.

WKU to close out regular season at North Texas

BY CLAY MANLOVE HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU

The Lady Topper volleyball team will hit the road to take on perhaps one of their most challenging opponents yet when they face an experienced North Texas team on Thursday night in Denton.

The matchup between WKU and the Mean Green should be highly anticipated as North Texas has emerged as the second-best team in Conference USA behind the Lady Toppers, compiling a 24-2 overall record and an 11-1 record in conference play.

The lone conference loss for North Texas was a 3-2 decision to Southern Mississippi in its conference opener on Sept. 22. The Lady Toppers swept the Golden Eagles in Diddle Arena on Oct. 6. “[North Texas] is a lot like us in that they’ve had a lot of seniors that have

played a lot of volleyball games,” WKU head coach Travis Hudson said after Sunday’s win over Middle Tennessee.

“A lot of credit goes to [Mean Green head coach Andrew Palileo]; those kids have gotten better every year that he’s been in their program. They’re seniors, tand they’re playing like seniors.”

Like WKU, the Mean Green plays to the tune of an explosive offense that has averaged a .302 hitting percentage on the season and a defense that has held opponents to a .184 clip.

“We’ve got to lock [North Texas] down defensively,” senior setter Jessica Lucas said after Sunday’s win over MTSU. “We just need to go out and have fun. It’s the last one for our seniors. It’s going to be crazy in that gym, so it will be a fun match.”

The Mean Green is led on offense by senior middle blocker Aman Chamberlain, who has racked up 299 kills on the season while hitting at an impressive .480 percentage. Senior middle

blocker Holly Milam follows up with 245 kills on the season while junior setter Karley York has 1106 assists.

Chamberlain also leads North Texas on defense with 101 total blocks while freshman libero Henrianna Ibarra has a team-high 222 digs.

The Lady Toppers clinched a share of the C-USA regular season title for the fourth straight season on Sunday after sweeping MTSU in Murfreesboro.

For the 10th week in a row, the Lady Toppers saw players earn individual awards as Jessica Lucas and Darby Music picked up weekly honors.

Lucas was named Conference USA Setter of the Week for the sixth time this season after picking up 66 assists over the weekend slate, facilitating the WKU offense to sweeps over Rice and MTSU. Lucas also tallied 20 digs, nine kills, four aces, four blocks and a .444 hitting percentage on the weekend.

With her award, the senior Lucas set a C-USA record with 18 individu-

al awards during her tenure with the Lady Toppers.

Music was awarded C-USA Defensive Player of the Week honors after collecting 20 digs (3.33 digs/set) over the weekend. Music also accumulated a service ace, two assists, a 100 percent serve percentage and a 100 percent receive percentage.

With the pair of awards, the Lady Toppers have now collected 16 individual awards on the season, Lucas with a conference-high six honors.

After sitting at No. 25 last week, the Lady Toppers dropped back out of the AVCA Top 25 polls, coming in at No. 26.

WKU will be back in Diddle to host the C-USA Tournament from Friday, Nov. 17 to Sunday, Nov. 19.

Reporter Clay Manlove can be reached at clayton.manlove475@topper.wku. edu. Follow him on Twitter at @ ctmanlove58.

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LIFE Bowling Green couple grows state’s largest sweet potato

BY SARAH YAACOUB HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU

MADDY NAVIN • HERALD

Haiwang Yuan, a professor and coordinator of Web and Emerging Technologies, teaches “Tai Chi Tuesday” a class provided through WKU’s WellU program on Tuesday.

SELF BALANCE WellU to offer weekly Tai Chi Classes

BY LAUREL DEPPEN HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU

In the lower level of Java City, chairs were pushed out of the way to make room for eager Tai Chi participants.

Tai Chi, which originated in China, is based on the philosophies of Taoism. Like Taoism, Tai Chi emphasizes the balance in all things.

WKU Libraries is partnering with the WellU program to bring the ancient practice of Tai Chi to students on campus. Every Tuesday afternoon in November, a Tai Chi class will be hosted in the lower level of Java City.

According to the Tai Chi for Health Institute, “everything is composed of two opposite, but entirely complementary, elements of yin and yang, working in a relationship which is in perpetual balance. Tai Chi consists of exercises equally balanced between yin and yang, which is why it is so remarkably effective.”

The practice can be beneficial for both mental and physical health. Tai Chi can help strengthen muscles and relieve stress.

Haiwang Yuan, a library faculty member in the Web & Emerging Technologies Work Group, has been interested in Tai Chi for six years. He taught himself the practice after a visit to China.

“The Chinese believe that people

are made of the elements. They are in balance,” Yuan said. “Tai Chi by itself means the yin and yang, the balance.

It relieves pressure [and] increases the immune system.”

Yuan went on to explain how students can continue to develop their interest in Tai Chi. “It’s up to the teacher to get the students into the door … it’s up to the students themselves to practice, to learn and to perfect their skills,” Yuan said.

“This is kind of introductory. Probably,

Chi. “I have anxiety, so it was really calming for me,” Crawford said.

Students have a unique opportunity to try something new by participating in Tai Chi Tuesday.

Bella Dana, a junior from Hendersonville, Tennessee, participated in the event and commented on gaining a new experience.

“It was cool to experience something that was different—something I’ve never done before.”

“It was cool to experience something that was different—something I’ve never done before.” junior from Hendersonville, Tennessee BELLA DANA

the students will be like me and get interested in it and learn by themselves or invite me or anybody else to teach them more.”

Tai Chi Tuesdays take place in the lower level of Java City from 3:30-4 p.m. and will continue for the rest of November. WKU Libraries Communication Coordinator Jennifer Wilson said she hopes to continue Tai Chi sessions into the next semester.

Sophomore Madi Crawford commented on how she benefited from Tai

Though Tai Chi is physically beneficial, participants didn’t find it straining.

“Some people might turn away because they don’t think they’re athletic,” sophomore Kailey Minor said. “I think anybody could do this.”

Reporter Laurel Deppen can be reached at (270)745-2655 and laurel. deppen774@topper.wku.edu.

When Jennifer Anderson and her husband, Spencer, began harvesting their sweet potato crop three weeks ago, they weren’t expecting anything special. It was their third time growing the vegetable, and so far, the results had been only ordinary.

This time, though, they were anything but. Among the roots they unearthed was a colossal sweet potato initially weighing in at 19.78 pounds.

As a point of comparison, the average size for a commercially sold sweet potato is four ounces, or a quarter of a pound—almost 80 times smaller than the one grown by Jennifer and Spencer Anderson.

Gardening is an amateur activity for the Andersons, and they grow their vegetables in the backyard of their Bowling Green home. They picked up the hobby about a decade ago.

At first, the Andersons were unsure of whether to get their potato officially weighed and registered. The excitement and buzz led them to seek out Ryan Quarles, the Kentucky commissioner of agriculture, for official weighing and verification of their root vegetable. Almost a week after its harvest, the potato weighed 19.17 pounds.

Anderson said the disparity between the initial and official weights could be chalked up to water loss as a result of the dehydration that occurs when produce is removed from its plant.

“As it sits out, it kind of dries,” Jennifer said.

The drying is caused by the hypertonicity of the potato to the air around it.

At any rate, there’s no denying the sweet potato’s abnormal mass is a rarity--in fact, its weight is the largest recorded in the state by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. A question many have is exactly why this sweet potato in particular grew to such a size.

“I don’t think we did anything different,” Jennifer said. “We always get compost from the [WKU] Ag Department, so that might have helped.”

While the gargantuan potato was a unique type--the Molokai purple sweet potato, native to the Hawaiian islands and not especially known for enormity--Anderson doubted her vegetable’s immensity stemmed from its species.

Also, she and her husband concoct a compost tea for her garden, which Spencer said in an interview with WBKO “might have to become a tradition.”

She also said she attributes the unusual size, at least to some degree, to the weather, referencing the warm summer and mild, rainy fall the city has been experiencing.

As for what to do with the massive sweet potato, Anderson said it has already been donated to the WKU Department of Agriculture, although no firm decisions have been made there on what to do with it. It is likely that research will be conducted on the vegetable.

Reporter Sarah Yaacoub can be reached at 270-745-6291 and sarah. yaacoub214@topper.wku.edu. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahyaacoub1.

Event series aims to culturally educate students

BY REBEKAH ALVEY HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU This week, celebrated as International Education Week, aims to engage students, staff and faculty across disciplines with international education through a range of events and discussion.

International Education Week, sponsored by the Office of International Programs began on Monday and integrates international learning into classroom curriculum. Anna Yacovone, coordinator of international programs, said a committee of faculty and staff members began meeting during the spring semester and were tasked with bringing student centered events to campus for the week.

“The ultimate goal is that the focus isn’t just one week,” Yacovone said.

“It’s weaved into different programs all year.”

Yacovone said the objective of International Education Week is to create events and programs that encourage an intercultural environment and that recognize the importance of cultural awareness and connectivity.

“We are a global world,” Yacovone said. “Interconnected.”

While International Education Week and International Year Of... are independent initiatives, Yacovone said there is some mixing. International Year Of... features a different country each year, focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina for the 2017-2018 academic year.

On Monday, the WKU student chapter of the National Dance Education Organization, or NDEO, held a class teaching Kolo, a traditional Bosnian dance.

Glasgow senior Trevor Edwards, the president of the WKU Student chapter of NDEO, said hosting classes on other cultural dances presents students with a new outlook on style and genres while increasing social and cultural awareness.

“Dance is a universal language,” Edwards said.

At the Bosnian dance class, Edwards said he learned more about Bosnian culture than just the dance, such as the attire. He said he found the dance unique because it was social and was inclusive for everyone.

Owensboro Senior Jena Thompson

volunteered to teach the class earlier this semester. She said she was able to learn a lot about Bosnian culture through research and learning the dance.

Wearing a bandana, loose shirt and a colorful, long skirt which Thompson said was a traditional Bosnian outfit for the dance, she showed the other dancers steps for the dance, in addition to giving a presentation on Bosnian culture.

For dance majors, Thompson said it is important to learn about new cultures to recognize it in dances or add to their choreography.

Toward the end of the class, Yacovone came in to watch the students and thank them for their continued participation. She said she loved seeing student involvement.

Last year, Yacovone said students organized half of the events during the International Education week. This year presented a different approach by encouraging events to be incorporated into classrooms through the dialogue series.

There are several events included in the series, such as discussing cultural differences in business, exporting

to global markets and immigration.

Yacovone said all of these events are open to all students and faculty but will take place during classes.

In addition to the dialogue series which continues throughout the week, there are other featured events outside of class times, such as a workshop on networking for international students and an international business forum.

A unique component of the International Education Week is it addresses a variety of disciplines and departments.

“We strive for academic diversity and want every student to encounter this,” Yacovone said.

Yacovone said international education is usually limited to students who go abroad or participate in an exchange program. She said the events this week provide an opportunity for students who stay on campus to benefit and become more culturally educated.

“International education is critical for students,” Yacovone said. “No matter the focus or mission.”

Reporter Rebekah Alvey can be reached at 270-745-6011 and rebekah. alvey660@topper.wku.