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Bowling Green Speaks out ahead of election

TOP: Michael Dennis, 43, of Mammoth Cave, Ky., prepares to leave work from his job as a construction worker. “Trump all the way, baby,” said Dennis when asked who had his vote this election. Trump’s appeal to the working class has been crucial to his success in this election. “I love blue collar workers,” Trump once said while campaigning in Ambridge, Pa. “And I consider myself in a certain way to be a blue collar worker.”

LEFT: William Kirby, 71, is a veteran of the Vietnam War who also lives with memories of the segregated South and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Before he deployed to East Asia in 1963, he had witness a lynching in his town in Alabama and the abuse of peaceful protestors in Montgomery. “I just can’t support Trump because I think he’s a racist and a sexist,” says Kirby. He has also disagrees with Trump’s rhetoric towards military service members and veterans. Hillary Clinton has his support this year.

RIGHT: Melissa Zeisler, 58, of Bowling Green stands reflected in the window of her home which she has spent hours and hundreds of dollars to decorate with pro-Trump merchandise this election. Supporting Trump has become her main focus over the last year even though she is usually not excited about the presidential election. “I don’t even know where this came from. This is who I am right now. It got a life of its own and it makes me happy and excited to be an American...[Trump] has literally changed my life. He’s made me a better person. It’s been incredible.” Aside from an incident of her house being ‘egged’ and one window cracked, response from passersby to her newfound enthusiasm has usually been civil. Gabriel Scarlett/HERALD | See story and photos on A2

Student surrogates debate foreign policy

BY MONICA KAST HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

Students from the WKU Forensics team participated in a surrogate debate of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s foreign policy stances on Tuesday.

Lily Nellans, Des Moines, Iowa, junior, represented democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Brian Anderson, Hodgenville sophomore, represented republican candidate Donald Trump. The two representatives answered questions asked by a panel of WKU professors based on the candidate’s stated foreign policies.

“They will represent the candidate’s positions as surrogate and not pose as the candidates themselves,” Michael McClellan, diplomat-in-residence and moderator of the surrogate debate, said at the beginning of the debate. “They will not imitate the candidates … but will instead focus

purely on their foreign policy positions in response to the questions posed by our distinguished panel of experts.”

The panelists were Eric Bain-Selbo, department head of philosophy and religion, Marko Dumani, associate professor in the department of history, Soleiman Kiasatpour, associate professor in the department of political science and Roger Murphy, associate professor in the department of political science.

Panelists asked the representatives about U.S. relationships with other countries such as Russia and China, the U.S. fight against ISIS, the candidate’s views on NATO and moral obligations to other countries.

Bain-Selbo asked if the candidates believed the U.S. had a moral obligation to the rest of the world and asked why or why not.

Brian Anderson, who won the coin toss, began the debate.

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Donald Trump surrogate Brian Anderson, sophomore from Hodgenville, watches Hillary Clinton surrogate Lily Nellans, junior from Des Moines, Iowa, answer questions posed by a panel of professors on Tuesday, Nov. 1, in Ransdell Hall. Anderson and Nellans were participating in the surrogate debate where they each represent presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Brendan O’Hern/HERALD

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LEFT: Carolyn Caplinger, 53, feels abandoned by her party this election. A registered Republican, she is disgusted with the allegations of sexual assault against Donald Trump, the GOP candidate, and “all his trash about women and these teenage girls.” Hundreds of Republican officials and legislators have pulled their support for Trump in recent months, but he and the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton are very close in the polls. Capilnger says that she will not be voting in this election.

RIGHT: Sadie Saylor-Reiss, a junior from Louisville, feels frustrated this election to not be able to vote for her first choice candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I’m a feminist,” she explains. “Kind of on the more radical side than others. But I would rather vote for an old white man that I agree with than a woman just for the sake of her being a woman.”

Nevertheless, she plans to vote for Hillary Clinton on Election Day. Gabriel Scarlett/HERALD

STORY AND PHOTOS

BY GABRIEL SCARLETT This photo story reflects various viewpoints of voters in the Bowling Green area and some of their thoughts on the upcoming election on Nov. 8.

This story is by no means a scientific or comprehensive survey of the voting populous in Bowling Green.

Rather it stands to show unprecedented trends and feelings of excitement and disappointed seen clearly in this presidential race. With national polls reflecting a tight race, the 4 percent of voters who are still undecided according to Rasmussen Reports could surprise either side when votes are tallied.

The driver’s side door swings open on Michael Dennis’ rusted, blue Ford Ranger, and he steps out. Still sweating from a full day’s work, he smokes a cigarette before heading home. As a construction worker helping to build the new Ogden College Hall, Dennis fits into a key American voter demographic: the blue-collar worker.

Both the Democratic and Republican candidates have campaigned to these voters, trying to promise them

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“The campaign website of Donald Trump isn’t very specific on anything other than domestic moral values,” he said. “But the stated campaign positions in Donald Trump’s speeches is place America first.”

Brian Anderson said although Trump hasn’t clearly said what “place America first” means, many analysts have interpreted it to mean, “he will always prioritize American interests, particularly when it comes to isolationism.”

Nellans, answering the same question, said Clinton has worked “as someone protecting the moral responsibility and moral duty of the United States.”

“Based on her experience, Hillary Clinton has found human right, democracy and principles of American freedom as something incredibly important to promote internationally,” Nellans said. “That is the moral responsibility and moral duty she

the opportunity of more manual labor jobs.

“Our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our airports, our water systems, our sewer systems, they are in desperate need of being either repaired and maintained or built,” Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said while campaigning in Florida. “We’re going to put America to

in his bedroom.

“I just can’t support Trump because I think he’s a racist and a sexist,” said Kirby. Trump’s comments on women and towards military members and their family’s have disturbed him, he said. He instead supports Clinton because he believes she cares more about “black people.”

On some levels, this election has

[Donald Trump] made me a better person.

It’s been incredible.”

Bowling Green voter Melissa Zeisler work building the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.”

Dennis’ intended vote will go to the GOP candidate Donald Trump who has also reached out to the blue collar vote. “I love blue collar workers,” Trump once said while campaigning in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

“I consider myself in a certain way to be a blue collar worker.”

Just a block away from the construction site, William Kirby, a veteran of the Vietnam War, and a witness to the Civil Rights Movement, relaxes

proved to be divisive, with some voters planning to cast their vote “against” one candidate rather than for the other. However, Bowling Green citizen Melissa Zeisler does not entirely fit this model.

Trump has swept her away “ever since he first announced he was running,” she said. Since then, Zeisler has spent hundreds of dollars outfitting her lawn and home with Trump campaign merchandise.

“I don’t even know where this [excitement] came from…He’s literally

believes that the United States has, to make sure that we serve as the best model of human rights and democracy and that we help other countries figure out how to achieve human rights and democracy.”

Dumani asked the representatives if Russia would be considered a top foreign policy threat to the candidates, and how the candidates planned to respond to Russia and Vladimir Putin.

“Secretary Clinton believes, as do I, that Russia is one of the most important foreign policy challenges facing the United States today,” Nellans said. “It would rank second on her list right below the threat posed

by ISIS and the civil war in Syria, but the conflict with Russia is intricately linked to conflict in Syria and our fight against ISIS.” Nellans said Clinton would “pursue a policy” of working with Russia in order to achieve peace in Syria and combat ISIS. Nellans cited Clinton’s negotiations as secretary of state with Russia, and said Clinton would “pressure Russia” to end war crimes.

Brian Anderson said Trump’s three

biggest foreign policy threats were ISIS, Iran and China.

“The way he would respond to Russia would be radically different from the way that Hillary Clinton would respond to Russia,” he said. “He has stated that he favors reproachment … because strong-arming Russia simply doesn’t work, at least historically.”

Later, when asked a follow-up question about relations with Russia, Brian Anderson said Trump’s policy would likely be one that would prevent the U.S. and Russia from “butting heads all the time.”

Nellans and Brian Anderson said most of their preparation for the surrogate debate came from reviewing each candidate’s website, reading transcripts of debates and speeches on foreign policy and looking at analysis of those policies.

“I’m hoping that students got a clearer understanding of where each candidate stands and the contrast between them,” Nellans said after the debate.

Brian Anderson echoed the contrasts between the candidate’s two

changed my life,” Zeisler explained. “[Donald Trump] made me a better person. It’s been incredible.”

Trump emerged as a candidate voicing long-held beliefs of Zeisler.

Contrasting Zeislers election fever are Carolyn Caplinger and Sadie Saylor-Reiss.

Caplinger, a registered Republican and resident of Bowling Green, feels abandoned by her party this year due to its choice of candidate. She is disgusted by allegations of sexual assault leveled against Trump, but does not feel that she can trust Clinton enough to change her vote. Caplinger does not plan to vote in this election.

Saylor-Reiss, a registered Democrat of Louisville, feels let down by the Democratic party and wishes she could vote for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Despite being an active feminist and advocate against sexual assault, she explained she “would rather vote for an old white man that I agree with, than a woman just for the sake of her being a woman.” Nevertheless, she plans to vote for Hillary Clinton.

While these Bowling Green citizens reflect some of the voter demographics in the area, there are number of other citizens with various opinions of the presidential race. More photo stories can be found on wkuherald. com as the Herald updates this story.

foreign policies, and the danger of isolation as outlined by Trump.

“The common trend for protectionism and the idea that we have to build ourselves before we build other people is a dangerous one, and people need to know that,” Brian Anderson said.

Elizabeth Wells, Paducah freshman, said she came to the debate for a class, but was glad she came.

“All of the back and forth and flip-flopping was kind of thrown out of it, unlike a normal presidential debate,” Wells said. “It was more straightforward.”

Andrea Anderson, Paducah freshman, came with Wells to the debate.

Prior, she felt like she wasn’t as aware of the candidate’s foreign policies.

“I’ve heard probably more about Donald Trump in the past from others,” Andrea Anderson said. “I feel like now, I’m more educated on Hillary Clinton’s side.”

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More freshmen enrolling with prior credit

BY KYLIE CARLSON HERALD.NEWS@WKU. EDU The path for incoming freshmen may be changing as 44.5 percent of first time, first year freshmen enrolled with previously earned college credit hours, according to WKU Enrollment Management.

Students are getting many of their credit hours through high school offered opportunities, such as dual credit and Advanced Placement courses.

Many of these courses are offered through the high schools, either online or taught by existing high school teachers with the right credentials.

Brian Meredith, WKU associate vice president for enrollment management, said Kentucky Community and Technical College System, Southcentral Community and Technical College, and Owensboro Community and Technical College are the leading dual credit schools that incoming freshmen are receiving credit from.

“Students are bringing in credits from all over, whether it be WKU or other higher education institutions,” Meredith said. “The old days of a student graduating high school in May and coming into college with zero credit hours, that is kind of fading.”

There is one big benefit Meredith said he is seeing among the students coming in with college credit hours, even as few as six or nine hours.

“There is a very positive by-product that comes with students bringing in hours, and that is that these students have eased into the college process a little earlier,” Meredith said. “They are more comfortable taking the classes, and when they finally come to the Hill, it really prepares them for being suc-

cessful students and gives them a leg up.”

Sharon Hunter, WKU director of strategic enrollment management and retention support, also believes students bringing in credit hours is a positive thing.

“All of the post-secondary education institutions in Kentucky got together with the state and said, ‘we will accept this credit,’” Hunter said, adding Kentucky schools are now offering the opportunity for easily transferable credits.

Meredith said some students in the

incoming class had enough credits to qualify for associate degrees.

In 1999, only two first-time students had enough credit hours to enroll at WKU as sophomores. In the fall of 2016, 133 first-time students enrolled at WKU as sophomores. Also in the fall of 2016, 22 first-time students enrolled at WKU as juniors, according to data provided by Hunter.

Meredith said as students are enrolling with more credit hours, it is not only helping them graduate quicker, but it is also boosting university retention as well.

“As we continue to see these students’ hours grow and increase, it will also positively feed our retention,” Meredith said. “Now they’re getting to graduation faster, but they are still getting to come to campus and experience college, so this is a very positive effect that colleges and universities are experiencing right now.”

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Student groups offer free rides to voting polls

BY JAMIE WILLIAMS HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The Student Government Association has partnered with Ride To Vote initiative to offer students who live on-campus free rides to the voting polls on Election Day. Olive Hill junior Alexandra Knipp, Ride To Vote project leader at WKU, noted the voter turnout in 2012 for the average college student demographic was extremely low, and it had little influence on election results.

“In this election, we’re hoping to increase voter turnout by making sure that all students, no matter their access to transportation, can still vote on Election Day,” Knipp said.

On Election Day, volunteers will offer students who live on-campus and are registered to vote in Bowling Green free rides to their polling location.

The organization is nonpartisan, and volunteer drivers will not pressure students to vote for a certain party or

candidate. The drivers will also refrain from telling others who they personally voted for and will not enter the polling location.

“Because the organization is nonpartisan, because we will not participate in political conversation in the car,” Knipp said. “That will hopefully encourage all students of all political ideologies and backgrounds to utilize this service.”

Vehicles will pick up students throughout the day at three locations across campus: the Hugh Poland Hall parking lot, the Kentucky Museum parking lot and the service lane of Avenue of Champions between Bates-Runner Hall and Downing Student Union. The cars will be labeled, and the service is completely free to students.

Currently, the program has 10 volunteer drivers that will shuttle students to and from polling locations from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday. If more volunteers sign up for the program, those

hours may be extended.

Knipp is excited about the number of volunteers and is hopeful there will be more drivers who sign up before Election Day. “I’ve been looking for a good way just to get involved in the election, and politics isn’t really in my zone of influence,” volunteer and Russellville junior Jason Fox said. “I just heard about Ride To Vote, and it seemed like an easy but good way for me to be involved.”

SGA Chief of Staff James Line said students who live off-campus can also get a ride to the polls by contacting Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a nonprofit organization in Bowling Green.

Line, who has been the leader of the SGA voter empowerment initiative, feels the program has been successful since it can be difficult to get young people interested in the political process.

The first phase of the initiative involved going to classrooms, going

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door-to-door and tabling in order to register approximately 300 new voters. The second phase of the initiative hopes to get those new voters out to the polls.

“We felt that the more we could do to get students out to vote, the better off our community, our state and our country will be, and so we decided to do whatever we could to make WKU play a small part in that,” Line said.

Knipp said the SGA has already done a lot of work to get people interested in the election, and its partnership with the Ride To Vote program will enable students to make their vote count by providing them with transportation.

“We’re really excited,” Line said. “We hope this will make a small dent in the overall lack of participation by young people in politics.”

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Polling pisces Consult the stars to help cast your ballot

BY ANDREW HENDERSON HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU

We’re now in the home stretch of the 2016 election. That is a sentence I have been waiting to write since the early onset of 2015.

To the American people, we are almost there. Let’s not take this moment for granted because it has been one heck of an election cycle.

12 Republican primary debates, nine Democratic primary debates, one vice presidential debate and three presidential debates. We the people have been dragged through it all.

After all is said and done, we’re left with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Oh, and a man who really likes mountains (Gary Johnson) and another woman who possibly runs her own Etsy shop for organic soaps ( Jill Stein).

I understand, you don’t like Clinton or Trump, well join the other 47 percent of registered voters who have a “strongly unfavorable” view of both of them. Either way you still have to vote for someone. And, yes, you can vote third party if you want to; if it means you can remain morally purE. Being edgy and voting just to stick it to the man ceases to be edgy if you’re uninformed.

But if you’re out there reading this and still don’t know who to vote for, I’ve consulted the stars to help you cast your ballot this Nov. 8.

Aries –– Voter fraud is astronomically low, like less than one percent.

Voter disenfranchisement is much more real. The stars have no actual advice for you, Aries. They just really wanted to stress that.

Cancer –– Bernie Sanders is not going to be the Democratic nominee and Mike Pence won’t be the Republican nominee. If you do writein vote for someone, know that nine states won’t accept them and a write-in has never become U.S. president. Do what you want, Cancer, but at least think it through.

Libra –– Libra, the stars are screaming at you to actually vote. If you need a ride to the polls there’s a Ride to Vote campaign here at WKU and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth is also getting people in Bowling Green to polling locations.

Your excuses are running thin, Libra.

Capricorn –– Capricorn, people have died securing the right for you to vote. People of color have been lynched for voting, Capricorn. If that doesn’t move you to exercise your right, the stars also tell me that you’ll get an A on your next econ exam if you vote.

Taurus –– So help me, Taurus, if you share one more blatantly false conspiracy theory on Facebook, the stars will not smile kindly upon you. Occupy Democrats and Right Wing News are blatantly hyper partisan propaganda machines and

benefit no one.

Leo –– Contrary to popular belief, the media is not rigging the election, Leo. Reporting on facts and what candidates say is not rigging the election. The stars aren’t even sure what you mean by “the media.”

Scorpio –– Prominent economics, including eight Nobel Prize winners, recently said Trump “promotes magical thinking and conspiracy theories over sober assessments of feasible economic policy options.” Not sure about you, Scorpio, but the stars have a tendency to listen to Nobel Prize winners.

Aquarius –– But, Aquarius, you cry, what about Clinton’s emails?

Good point, Aquarius, that’s all the stars can really say. No matter how hyped up all those emails become in the news, sometimes over nothing at all, there’s still a serious moment of pause it creates for her.

Gemini –– Enjoy that brief moment of relief come Wednesday, Nov. 9, Gemini, because the 2020 campaign will be officially underway.

Virgo –– Virgo, don’t worry, your preferred candidate will totally win.

Sagittarius –– Sagittarius, don’t worry, your preferred candidate will totally win.

Pisces –– Pisces, your paper about confirmation bias will receive a great grade. Ironic how that worked out.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Attorney General continues to fight for education Our university students and faculty have been through a lot.

For our students, higher education has never been more expensive.

For our faculty and administrators, severe budget cuts have led to more than 700 layoffs. That is 700 Kentucky families that lost a job that put food on their tables.

The mission of higher education is also under attack. Some top state officials are telling students that certain majors or studies are not valued, or even that a college education is unimportant.

University presidents who rightfully advocate for their communities have been unfairly and unprofessionally derided as “crybabies.”

And it took the Supreme Court of Kentucky to reverse the $18 million in blatantly illegal cuts the governor made to Kentucky’s public universities earlier this year. The Attorney General Office’s diligence in taking this issue to the state’s highest court means that

$1,493,000 has been returned to the campus of WKU. This was an issue worth my office’s time and energy because of its impact to students and their families.

And it shows how I value education.

For my office, our daily focus continues to be our core mission — helping to prevent child abuse, protecting seniors from scams and abuse, finding workable solutions to our drug epidemic and securing justice for victims of rape.

Unfortunately, there is still an issue that threatens every university — the governor’s attempt to remove the entire board of trustees at the University of Louisville. And it is not just U of L. The governor claims the power to dissolve every governing board, including WKU. It is the greatest threat faced by the students and faculty at all of our public institutions.

Kentucky’s public colleges and universities receive their accreditation

from a group called Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Its mission is to assure the educational quality and improve the effectiveness of its member institutions.

Accreditation is critical. Without it, students cannot secure federal financial aid.

SACS has indicated, in a letter to U of L, that the governor’s unilaterally dissolving of a university governing board violates accreditation standards.

And when a university is not free from undue political influence, accreditation is placed at risk and can be lost if not remedied.

The loss of accreditation is a death sentence to a university. It could also lose research funding, athletic and academic programs and staff and students.

Accreditation issues and penalties are black eyes that take years to overcome.

I am not suggesting that the governor realized his actions would create

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this unacceptable risk when he took them. At this point, however, the harm is too great, and it is our students and faculty that will pay the price.

It is time for the governor to agree he cannot “dissolve” a university governing board, and he should begin to follow the law and do what every other governor has done: appoint trustees when vacancies become available.

A governor — any governor — that could dissolve a board for any reason, at any time would make our universities totally beholden to politics. Governors could control class offerings and even faculty hiring and firing.

We should all be against that, regardless of political party.

Our system of higher education should be above partisan politics. We owe that to our students and their families.

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LIFE

Students talk about voting decisions

BY MILES SCHROADER HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU

In less than a week, America will have a new president, new House members and, depending on the state, new senators and local governing officials. So the question is this: how does one decide who to vote for?

With each candidate’s different views on issues including foreign policy, tax and revenue, civil rights, immigration, gun policy and more, there is much to consider when making a voting decision.

One week before the election, we asked students on campus about what issues are most important to them when choosing a candidate.

“Foreign policy is a big one for me, but I think all domestic issues are important,” graduate student Spencer Orlowski said. “Social issues are important, gay marriage, marijuana legalization, support for Black Lives Matter, I really find everything interesting.”

According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, the most common issue 2016 voters feel is “very important” is the economy.

Brad Alexander of Leitchfield agrees.

“The economy, money makes the world go round,” Alexander said.

In the same poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, 72 percent of 2016 voters say gun policy is “very important” to their vote.

“The most important issue to me right now is gun control,” Bowling Green freshman Abby Milliken said.

“It’s one of our given rights in the constitution, so any presidential candidate that wants to take that away, I’m just not for.”

Foreign policy is another important topic to many voters in the upcoming election, ranking third in the Pew Research Center’s poll on issues that were “very important” to 2016 voters.

“Foreign and immigration policy are important to me, because tensions are getting high between the U.S. and Russia,” Nashville junior Jason Odine said.

For some voters, it’s not necessarily an opinion on a specific issue they are looking for.

“For me, I don’t know about a specific issue, it’s more about that they recognize the needs of the people,” Rochester, Minnesota, sophomore Lydia Dozier said.

Reporter Miles Schroader can be reached at 270-745-2655 and miles. schroader179@topper.wku.edu.

‘Jive it up’

Singing groups join to celebrate culture

Bremen junior Ryan Jones plays the piano along with Essence in Harmony, a group comprised of members of WKU Choral and the Southern Kentucky Choral Society, on Monday in the Music Hall. The group will be performing on Friday in the Van Meter Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Matt Lunsford/HERALD

BYMILES SCHROADER HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU This Friday at 7:30 p.m., three groups will come together for one concert at Van Meter Hall in a performance titled “Walk Together, Children.”

The concert will feature Essence in Harmony the WKU Chorale and the Southern Kentucky Choral Society.

“We want to spread a message of peace, not only in our community, but throughout the world,” Cathryn Ellis, Danville junior and public relations intern for theSouthern Kentucky Choral Society, said.

“It’s fun to be a part of an organization that involves so many different types of people who can all be united by a similar passion for music,” Ellis said.

Paul Hondorp, associate professor of music, will direct the concert.

“The seed of the concert came this summer in the midst of just watching news report after news report of continued race relations issues in our country,” Hondorp said. “It’s hard not

to feel helpless to a problem so massive.”

As Hondorp tried to figure out what he was going to program this semester, he decided a concert that addressed race relations issues and encouraged peace and unity would be a positive contribution to the singers as well as the community.

One of the featured groups, Essence in Harmony, is an ensemble that performs “dynamic renditions of music and art highlighting the Black experience and African Diaspora,” according to its Facebook page.

Brittany Whitlow, graduate student and president of Essence in Harmony, said the group strives to teach children music can be an escape.

“It is what you can use to better yourself naturally in your home, in school, in your church,” Whitlow said. When you can’t find an escape from life’s challenges, you can find music, she added.

Whitlow has been a part of the Choral Society since 2008 and will be performing on Friday night. She and Hondorp agreed the event will

be very different from performances in the past.

“This actually just puts a good mile-marker on my life,” Whitlow said. “The topic of this concert is what just makes it a little more close to heart. Getting to tie in spirituals with a Renaissance work. Having the gospel mass instead of a Mozart work. It’s a way of saying, ‘Here’s what we usually do, but we’re going to jive it up a little bit.’”

The concert is different than the group’s typical November concert, Hondorp said.

“Typically, the main focus, especially from the Southern Kentucky Choral Society, is major works with chorus and orchestra, such as works from names like Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn that sort of ring familiar in the classical world,” Hondorp said. “So this is a bit of a departure for this group.”

Reporter Miles Schroader can be reached at 270-745-2655 and miles. schroader178@topper.wku.edu.

Students use dress project to raise awareness

Sophomore Emma Margavio of Bartlett, Tenn. is a Nursing major who will be wearing a grey dress for all of November as part of the One Grey Dress Project to raise awareness of human trafficking. “Wearing the same dress and seeing people’s reactions will be interesting,” she said. Tyger Williams/HERALD

BY MEGAN COLE

HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU

The leaves are quickly changing, but the clothing of some students throughout the month of November on WKU’s campus will remain the same in honor of the One Grey Dress Project.

One student taking on the challenge is sophomore Emma Margavio.

Margavio said the One Grey Dress Project involves women wearing the same grey dress or men wearing the same grey shirt for 30 days in effort to raise awareness for those oppressed in human trafficking.

“It’s meant to be one dress, 30 days,

for the girls,” Margavio said. The dress symbolizes the lack of freedom and choice faced by those enslaved in human trafficking.

Human trafficking is a universal problem, not just in developing nations, and it’s all throughout the U.S., Margavio said.

Margavio said she is excited to do something bigger than herself. She hopes many will stand beside her and participate in raising awareness.

She also hopes to participate in another One Grey Dress Project month in the spring with more involvement from the WKU community.

“I don’t want people to just wonder, ‘why is that girl wearing the same grey dress that she wore Monday, and also last week?’ But I want people to ask me so I can tell them why,” she said.

Margavio said she learned about human trafficking for the first time two weeks ago from Pearce-Ford Tower’s Residence Hall Director, Holly Brandewie.

Brandewie, a graduate student, said she heard about the One Grey Dress Project from a campus group during her undergraduate studies at Bowling Green State University.

“From observing them I learned how important it is to stand, even when standing in solidarity, for those who don’t have a choice,” Brandewie

said.

Brandewie said it has been encouraging to see Margavio’s excitement to get involved with the project.

Sophomore Marlee Barrett, vice president of WKU’s chapter of International Justice Mission said as a college student in Kentucky, it can be difficult to imagine having an impact on an issue like human trafficking.

“Human trafficking is the use of force threats, or violence to get a person to do something against his or her will,” Barrett said. “This can include prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor or servanthood.

This can also take place in the form of actions like property grabbing. We forget just how large the issue is.”

Barrett said it’s important to focus on everyday steps on how we can practically approach trafficking and modern day slavery as a whole by educating ourselves on what companies use slave labor to produce their products when we make purchases.

“It is important that we put these men, women and children before ourselves in this situation,” Barrett said. “They have been cast aside and oppressed. We have the option, as college students and consumers, to put them first by not supporting companies that exploit them.”

Reporter Megan Cole can be reached at 270-745-2655 and megan. cole775@topper.wku.edu.

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Continued from Sports get the ball,” Brian Brohm said. “But they have a defense that is very multiple with a lot of different fronts and different coverages. They’ll try to confuse your center on the o-line calls, and they’ll try to confuse your quarterback a little bit. We want to take advantage of every opportunity we have, and we know that they might try to hold the ball a little bit and keep it away from us.”

A big part of the FIU defensive production comes from junior linebackers Anthony Wint and Treyvon Williams who have combined for 175

SOCCER

Continued from SPORTS on the road in Denton, Texas, against the reigning champion Mean Green.

Although they didn’t win that certain match in the Lonestar State, the Lady Tops did make history as they picked up their first ever win versus the Rice Owls in a 1-0 shutout win back on Friday, Sept. 30, in Houston.

The check in the win column sat WKU atop of the league standings, a place it battled for all season long.

Most of its season may have been nicely played, but WKU did get off to a shaky start on this season’s cam-

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total tackles this season.

Wint and Williams rank 18th and 21st nationally in tackles per game with both recording just under 10 tackles per contest.

“We don’t overlook or underlook anybody,” Norris said. “We’re just going to come out and play our game.

I feel like that if they’re the top 25 [tacklers], we have two of the top 25 receivers so they bring their game and we’re going to bring ours.”

Norris, who now ranks second in WKU history with 172 career catches, is a big reason as to why the Topper offense ranks fourth in the nation in total yards gained and averages over

500 yards of offense per game.

He has been a favorite target for redshirt junior quarterback Mike White who is fifth in the nation in passing yards and is coming off his fourth consecutive 300-yard passing game for an offense that is peaking at just the right time.

“It’s very important,” Norris said.

“As you see we’re trying to make a championship run like we did last year even with having an extra loss in that column. It makes us want to go extra hard, so it’s important to everybody that it’s clicking and everybody is producing.”

Norris needs just 138 more yards

to join senior wide receiver Taywan Taylor as the first tandem of WKU receivers to eclipse 1,000 yards in the same season.

“We feel like every drive we touch the field, we should score,” Norris said. “We should give our defense a little confidence knowing that they go on the field and it’s 7-0 instead of 3-0 or 0-0.”

Kickoff for the Toppers’ home matchup with FIU is set for 4:30 p.m.

paign.

The Lady Tops grabbed a 7-1 victory on the road at the University of Tennessee Martin on Friday, Aug. 19, but after that dropped two-straight at the University of Memphis (2-0 on Sunday, Aug. 21) and at Miami (Ohio) (3-2 2OT on Friday, Aug. 26).

However, the Lady Tops turned things around and began to play dominant soccer.

Over the course of their next eight contests, the Lady Tops went 7-1 as they beat Austin Peay State University, Georgia State University,

Morehead State University, Marshall University, Belmont University, the University of Southern Mississippi and Rice University while just suffering a tough 1-0 defeat against Southeastern Conference foe Louisiana State University.

WKU dropped a 1-0 decision to Old Dominion University to close out its regular-season on Friday, Oct. 28, but it’ll be entering the C-USA Women’s Soccer Tournament, which begins Wednesday evening in Charlotte, North Carolina, with total confidence that it could return to Bowling Green with a trophy.

The match against Charlotte hadn’t been played, as of press time.

The third-seeded Lady Tops are set to square off with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the tournament host, at 6 p.m. at Transamerica Field.

WKU (12-6-0 overall, 7-3-0 C-USA) and the 49ers (9-8-1, 5-4-1 C-USA) did not meet in the regular-season, but the two sides have split the two meetings in program history.

BASKETBALL Continued from SPORTS

Carmichael went nine of 10 from the charity stripe and finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds.

“Willie Carmichael never played a game out in the perimeter in his life,” Stansbury said. “Willie played center at Tennessee. He played with great effort. Look at the rebounding column, that’s the effort column. He has 13 rebounds.”

“Willie is like a wild stallion right now,” Stansbury continued. “He just runs around, quick and just flies around. Can’t put a saddle on him very well yet. He’s got a lot of quickness and a lot of energy. The more experience he gets he will see things start happening a little bit.”

Justin Johnson led the way for the Tops offensively with 22 points along with 12 rebounds. The forward showed how his game has expanded

We got five or six guys that can score double figures and we need them to.”

Head Coach Rick Stansbury as he went two for three from three point range.

“He’s gonna be a guy I can move around,” Stansbury said. “I have total confidence in him shooting the three –– shoots it with a lot of confidence, expanded his game. Justin has been really good for us, his experience out there.”

The Tops had five players finish in double figures in their first contest.

Lawson with 12, Carmichael and Lomomba with 11, Thomas had 17 and Justin Johnson with 22.

The offense had the opportuni-

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ty to spread the scoring duties with Stansbury’s motion offense. The new coach has expressed that his players will have freedom on offense to make plays.

“We need those guys in double figures every night,” Stansbury said.

“There won’t be many nights Que Johnson isn’t in double figures. Foul trouble never let him get going. We got five or six guys that can score double figures and we need them to.”

Saturday, the Toppers will be back in action in Diddle Arena as they take on Kentucky Wesleyan College in

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their second exhibition of the season.

KWC is an NCAA Division II school that has won eight national championships in the program’s storied history. The team is coached by Happy Osborne who has also won championships at Georgetown College.

The Panthers will be taking on the Louisville Cardinals on Thursday, at the KFC Yum Center before heading to Diddle Arena for an 8 p.m. showdown with the Tops Saturday night.

“We’ll get better before the next game,” Stansbury said. “We are gonna have to [because] Kentucky Wesleyan will be a better team.”

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» Women’s Basketball: The Lady Toppers will play tonight at 7 p.m. against Young Harris College in an exhibition match at Diddle Arena.

SOCCER

Lady Tops end season, earn honors

BY TYLER MANSFIELD HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU

our sets and everything.

He does a really good job leading this team.”

“Overall, I thought he [Lomomba] did okay,” Stansbury said. “Just his experience out there, his toughness –– knowing what happens in the game a little bit. It’s the first time in his career he has ever played point guard ever. So I was pleased with some things. He has a lot more to give.”

Lomomba put in 11 points and three assists to go along with five rebounds.

The fans also got their first look at sophomore transfer forward Willie Carmichael. He was one of two Topper players with a double-double performance in the victory.

The WKU women’s soccer team had quite the regular-season and with the dominance it was able to present, it racked up a handful of Conference USA accolades in the league’s official release on Tuesday afternoon.

Head Coach Jason Neidell, who is in his 16th season at the helm, was named the 2016 C-USA Coach of the Year while five Lady Toppers in senior defender Olivia Fitzgerald, sophomore midfielder Nicole Roseland, senior forward Iris Dunn, junior goalkeeper Allison Leone and freshman forward Chandler Backes were all tabbed with All-C-USA Team honors.

Neidell’s Coach of the Year honor is the coach’s first since the program joined C-USA prior to the 2014 season, but the third of his career, as he earned the award in 2007 and 2013 as a member of the Sun Belt Conference.

The only coach WKU has ever had currently has an overall record of 180-101-33 (62 percent) as the 12 wins the Lady Tops have recorded this year are the most they’ve had in a single season since 2012.

Fitzgerald and Roseland were both named to the All-C-USA First Team and Dunn and Leone were placed on the Second Team while Backes landed on both the Third Team and the All-Freshman Team.

The all-conference honors were the first of each athlete’s career except for Dunn, who earned Third Team honors last season.

After being selected to finish eighth in the Preseason C-USA poll, WKU outperformed the prediction by five spots as it finished third in the conference behind the University of North Texas and Rice University.

The Lady Tops went 7-3-0 in C-USA contention and gave up only four goals against league opponents, which was the fewest in the league.

WKU opened its C-USA slate with four straight wins, and didn’t surrender a single goal in that time frame — a shutout streak that lasted 533 total minutes and was the third longest in the nation, until a 2-1 setback

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Redshirt senior guard Pancake Thomas (12) jumps over the defense to make a shot during the WKU men’s basketball 87-79 victory over Campbellsville University at Diddle Arena on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. Thomas scored 17 of the Topper’s 87 points.

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“Only up from here” Hilltoppers defeat Campbellsville in first exhibition

BY MATTHEW STEWART HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU It’s a new year, new coach and a new look for the Hilltopper basketball team. Tuesday night, fans saw the team defeat Campbellsville University 87-79 in the Toppers’ first game of the year.

The Tops started the game off with a big presence on the inside. Senior forward Ben Lawson put up six of the first eight points for the Tops.

Lawson finished with 12 points, going four for four from the field and knocking down all four free throw attempts. Ben also finished with six rebounds, two blocks and one steal in 20 minutes on the court.

Lawson’s teammates and Stansbury made it

known he will be an impact player this season after Lawson averaged five points and three rebounds a game last year.

“Ben is gonna be a factor all year long,” Head Coach Rick Stansbury said. “He was a factor tonight. He has gotta continue to make those effort plays. I’m pleased with Ben. Ben has done a good job for us. You saw a lot of good things and he is getting better.”

“He [Lawson] was aggressive, finished around the rim, made free throws, blocked some shots and protected the rim,” junior forward Justin Johnson said.

The team has been playing against only each other up until this point and hasn’t had the opportunity

to get an offensive flow on the court until now.

“I’m just glad that one’s over cause you get all the jitters out,” redshirt senior guard Pancake Thomas said. “This is our first time playing against somebody else. I’m just glad we got that out of the way; it’s only up from here.”

Redshirt senior guard Junior Lomomba has been out of practice for the past two weeks, but he got the start at point guard Tuesday night and ran the Topper offense.

The newly positioned point guard showcased his court vision and ability to move the ball up the court in a timely manner, according to his teammates.

“Junior knows everyone’s role,” Justin Johnson said. “He gets us in

FOOTBALL

WKU looks to keep winning streak versus FIU

BY EVAN HEICHELBECH HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU Just four weeks removed from sitting in the middle of the Conference USA East Division race with a 1-1 conference record, the WKU football team (6-3, 4-1 C-USA) is now in complete control of its future.

“Like last year, we have control, and everything is on us,” senior wide receiver Nicholas Norris said. “If we keep winning, we keep moving on. If we take a step back, somebody might overpass us. It’s a great feeling knowing that you have to be on your cues every week. You have a target on your back and somebody’s trying to get you.”

The Hilltoppers were coming off a 52-55 road loss to Louisiana Tech leaving their season goal of winning a second consecutive conference championship up in the air.

Since then, WKU has reeled off three straight conference victories.

“I think we’ve always had a good attitude around here,” quarterbacks coach Brian Brohm said. “We’ve always been grinding and working hard to win football games. I do think that that loss [at La. Tech] stung a little bit. These guys like winning, and they hate losing. We were able to pull a close one out against Middle, and I think that really showed our character, and we just want to keep it going.”

Now, three conference opponents with a combined record of 9-16 are the only obstacles in the way of a WKU squad determined to get back

to the conference title game. The Florida International University Golden Panthers (3-6, 3-2 C-USA) also led the division just two weeks ago.

FIU fired Head Coach Ron Turner after starting the season 0-4, and promoted defensive coordinator Ron Cooper to be the interim head coach.

Since then, FIU won three conference games before dropping two straight to the high-powered offenses of Louisiana Tech and Middle Tennessee State University.

“Ever since the coaching change, you can see that they’ve adjusted,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said. “They’re being much more aggressive on the defensive side of the ball and much more aggressive on offense. Their guys are playing loose, and they’re playing hard. Two weeks ago they were leading the conference at 3-0 in the division, and they played two tough teams.”

The Panthers’ loss to MTSU came down to the final two minutes as FIU quarterback Alex McGough’s pass was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by MTSU to put the game away by a final score of 42-35.

Despite the loss, the Panthers totaled a season-high 517 yards of offense and dominated the time of possession with a 20-minute advantage over MTSU. Coming into Saturday’s matchup with WKU, FIU ranks second in the conference and 38th in the nation in time of possession, averaging 31:42 per game.

“We want to score every time we

Redshirt junior quarterback Mike White (14) hands the ball to redshirt senior running back Anthony Wales (20) during WKU’s 44-43 double overtime win over MTSU on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, at Johnny “Red” Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tn. Kathryn Ziesig/HERALD

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