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Reusable boxes to improve sustainability

Funds returned to universities after months of debate

BY JAMIE WILLIAMS

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

The new reusable take-out container program at Fresh Food Company aims to reduce WKU’s environmental footprint while giving customers a better to-go experience.

The WKU Office of Sustainability, the WKU Restaurant Group and the Student Government Association’s sustainability committee have been working to reduce wasteful packaging in dining services. Fresh’s styrofoam containers are a large source of waste, as styrofoam is difficult to recycle.

“Our goal is to eventually just get rid of the styrofoam –– the disposable containers –– which can’t be recycled on our campus,” Christian Ryan, the Office of Sustainability coordinator, said.

The new to-go containers will be available at Fresh for a fee of $5 for one academic year. After you takeout and enjoy your meal, you rinse the container and return it to Fresh.

There, you will receive a new container or a keychain tag to keep until the next time you want a take-out box.

“It’s a good thing to do if you want to reduce your environmental footprint, and you carry food out; this is a really easy way to do it,” Ryan said.

“It actually couldn’t be any easier.”

The containers are microwave and dishwasher safe, and they are sturdier than the styrofoam containers.

Savannah Molyneaux, chair of SGA’s sustainability committee, said that the reusable container is well-worth the $5 fee.

“They’re very sturdy, they hold a lot of food, and they don’t spill over like the styrofoam ones,” Molyneaux said. “Even if sustainability isn’t something a person knows a whole lot about or is passionate about, they just work better and are more functional than the styrofoam ones.”

The program started with 150

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BY EMMA COLLINS

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T

he nearly $18 million of university funding cut by Gov. Matt Bevin will be returned to the universities by Thursday, according to a court order.

The order comes after the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Bevin could not cut funds in the middle of a fiscal year’s budget that had already been approved by state legislators. Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear sued Bevin because of the cuts claiming Bevin did not have the power to change the budgets halfway through the fiscal year. Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate ruled in Bevin’s favor; however, the Supreme Court disagreed and reversed the ruling.

Earlier this spring, Bevin ordered all of the state’s public universities to immediately cut two percent of their 2015-2016 budgets despite protests from the House Democrats. He planned to use the money for the state’s underfunded pension system. Kentucky’s pension system is one of the worst in the nation and is underfunded by nearly $38 million.

The $18 million cut from the universities was placed in an escrow fund until the courts decided whether or not the money had to be returned to the universities.

Ann Mead, senior vice president for finance and ad-

ministration, said Bevin’s cuts removed $1,453,000 of state appropriated funds. She said she expects to receive the money soon.

In order to cover the budget cuts, WKU was forced to dip into its nearly $3.5 million reserve fund. Only $129,460 remained in the reserve fund.

“This is one-time money that will be placed back in the University Reserve,” Mead said in an email.

To compensate for the loss in funding and to maintain a balanced budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year, the university was forced to reduce its 2015-2016 fiscal year budget by nearly $6 million. The cuts resulted in the elimination of several empty faculty positions, the consolidation of the Alive Center and the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility and the reorganization of the administration in several departments. Faculty and staff spouse tuition benefits and several smaller programs were also cut.

Despite the need to reduce the 2016-2017 budget, WKU chose to raise full-time employees’ salaries by three percent over a 12-month period. To cover the raises, tuition was increased by 4.5 percent or $430 per school year.

Bob Skipper, media relations director, said the university will not issue a response to the court’s decision. He said an email sent on Thursday, Sept. 22, will be the only

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French film festival returns to the Hill

BY BRYSON KELTNER

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

For the fifth year in a row, WKU will be hosting the Tournées French Film Festival from Monday to Wednesday, Oct. 26.

The event was made possible by a national grant sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture and the French Embassy.

“As a result of our numerous international connections and our status as the state’s only public university with a film major, WKU is in a prime position to host an event that spot-

lights issues that are becoming even more central to popular culture,” Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield, festival director and assistant English professor, said in a press release.

Since Monday, Oct. 17, the event has featured three films, and it will show three more films from Monday, Oct. 24 to Wednesday, Oct. 26, of next week. They will each begin at 7 p.m. in Cherry Hall 125.

When Hollyfield came to WKU in 2012, he brought the festival from where he was previously employed at Louisiana State University. Hollyfield said the festival has had a large influence on the prosperity of WKU’s film

program, but he wishes it will create something bigger.

“My hope is that the festival will foster discussion between WKU and the greater Bowling Green community about how contemporary French cinema has a rich history of addressing otherness and migrancy in a way that is applicable to our own region,” Hollyfield said in a press release.

Each of the films have a tie to adolescence in post-colonial French culture; however, some also highlight immigration and Islamic culture in Europe. “‘The School of Babel’ is a documentary about a school that teach-

es French to immigrants,” Hollyfield said. It will be featured on Monday, Oct 24.

“Chocolat”, a film featured in the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, will be playing on Tuesday, Oct. 25. It spotlights a French girl’s childhood in Cameroon, a colony in France.

The finale on Wednesday, Oct. 26, will feature the film, “My Friend Victoria.” It is an adaptation of a short story by Nobel Prize winner, Doris Lessing, Hollyfield said.

“It tells the story of a black woman living with a white bourgeois family,” Hollyfield said. “Years later, she has

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an affair with one of the family members and they have a child together.”

Hollyfield said in a press release he sought a series of films that would appeal to scholars from a wide range of departments –– many of whom will be on hand to moderate post-screening discussions.

English professor Ted Hovet will be introducing “My Friend Victoria” and leading the discussion after the film.

“I’m just very excited to see a series that gives us a better understanding of France and French cinema, especially its more global elements,” Hovet wrote in an email.

Other moderators include faculty from the department of modern languages, pop culture studies, film program, English, gender and women’s studies program as well as students in the new MFA screenwriting program.

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response to both the Supreme Court’s ruling and the most recent decision ordering the funds to be returned.

When the Supreme Court issued its ruling saying Bevin’s cuts were illegal, Bevin took to the internet and posted a video criticizing both the court’s decision and the university

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“One of the best aspects of WKU is seeing how the work we’re doing in one department relates to what others are working on in completely different fields,” Hollyfield said in a press release.

Ian LaBarge, a junior film major from Paducah, attended the showing of “Mustang.” He said the film was a good way to put students in a different world for a while.

“It’s good because the festival has free, fun movie events that also allow you to learn at the same time,” LaBarge said.

Both Hollyfield and Hovet said they have been pleased with the turnout for the festival so far.

“We’ve been very happy with the turnout, but hope for even more during the second week of the festival,” Hovet said.

Reporter Bryson Keltner can be reached at 270-745-6011 and philip. keltner856@topper.wku.edu.

A still from the film “Mon Amie Victoria.” Image courtesy of Tournées French Film Festival.

presidents’ request for the money to be returned.

“That $18 million was not going to help lower student tuition,” Bevin said.

He went on to criticize the university presidents for insisting the universities could not handle the cuts.

“The very same universities, the very people who are crying about how much they are being cut, that

$18 million accounts for less than one-third of one percent of their $6.6 billion operating funds,” Bevin said.

The court’s decision creates one more disagreement in the feud between Bevin and Andy Beshear. Since Bevin took office, the two men have disagreed on a number of the governor’s decisions including Bevin’s decision to investigate former Gov.

of styrofoam completely. WKU’s sustainability efforts also hope to work with the Restaurant Group to reduce the use of plastic bags, implement reusable cups and allow for the green to-go container to be used at multiple dining locations.

Alexis Corbin, the Office of Sustainability’s student ambassador, hopes that this initiative will not only be better in terms of helping the environment, but also in terms of making WKU a better school.

“I think we have great potential

Steve Beshear’s administration. Steve Beshear is the son of the former governor. They have also argued over the reorganization of the governing board for the University of Louisville.

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to make something like this happen and to show that going red is really going green,” Corbin said.

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2016 Homecoming Parade and Float Contest 5:00 p.m.

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Faculty creates website to explain budget

BY MONICA KAST

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The University Senate Budget and Finance Committee has created a website , wkumoney.wordpress.com which details the budget cuts, expenditures, revenue and issues at WKU, according to committee members.

Laura DeLancey, assistant professor of library technical services, serves as the library representative on the Budget and Finance Committee. She said the website is a “more user-friendly version of the information that is available.”

According to the website, it was created “as a place to start learning about WKU’s finances.”

DeLancey began serving on the committee last fall, and said she took over the website from Eric Reed, a professor in the history department and the interim dean of the Graduate School.

DeLancey said Reed began

creating a website last year, but had not made it public.

Reed said in an email the website is “meant to be a clearinghouse of information and perspective about budget issues for faculty and other interested parties.”

Reed said he has not participated in maintaining the site since DeLancey took it

“The purpose of the website is that although all this information is available on the WKU website if you know where to look for it, it can be buried pretty deeply,” DeLancey said.

Claus Ernst, professor in the department of mathematics and chair of the budget and finance committee,

What we would like to acomplish is basically to have people be informed about bugetary issues.”

Chair of budget and finance committee Claus Ernst over, and said DeLancey has “given it a clean look and organized and reorganized the data to make it more useful for the visitors to the site.”

DeLancey said when she joined the committee, she began “revamping” the site, updating the information and adding graphs and visuals.

said the website “allows people to get accurate information.”

“What we would like to accomplish is basically to have people be informed about budgetary issues,” Ernst said.

DeLancey also said the website tries to “explain what was complex in a simple way.”

Ernst and DeLancey both said the website will continue to be updated about budget and funding issues at WKU. Both cited the sports medicine complex as a current topic that would be added to the website.

Additionally, DeLancey said the website includes information and analyses that the Budget and Finance committee did of the WKU budget.

The website also has links to Budget and Finance committee reports. A major source for the website was a recent report done by the Budget and Finance analyzing WKU budgets since 2004.

Ernst said this report is the “best source for anyone who wants to get a large-scale overview” of the budget.

Additionally, DeLancey said there are links to articles about funding and spending higher education, and comparisons between WKU and other schools’ funding, spending and compensation.

“A lot of the issues that we

look at on our campus and that people talk about aren’t unique to WKU,” DeLancey said. “So athletics, compensation, student fees, buildings, all of that, these are going on everywhere. We try to put it in context.”

DeLancey said the committee received positive feedback about the website, and those who viewed it found it helpful. She also said including “a student’s perspective” could be an addition to the website.

“We’d actually be very interested to hear from students, because I know that the finances of the university looks different from a student’s perspective,” DeLancey said. “If there is anything that students would want to see on there, I would love to include that.”

Reporter Monica Kast can be reached at 270-745-6011 or monica.kast187@topper. wku.edu. Follow her on Twit-

SGA announces safety polls, new members

BY JAMIE WILLIAMS

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The Student Government Association discussed initiatives on improving campus safety polls and appointed two new members at its Tuesday, meeting.

The Public Relations committee will be asking students about campus safety on Thursday, Oct. 20 from 3-5 p.m. in Centennial Mall and on Monday, Oct. 24 from 3-5 p.m. in Downing Student Union.

“Our whole purpose is to make sure the students are happy,” Alex Sergent, chair of the Public Relations commit-

tee, said.

Sergent said they will ask students where they feel the most safe, least safe and if they have any concerns about campus safety. This poll is designed to help SGA determine where and how the campus needs to be improved.

WKU and the SGA have been trying to promote campus safety for several years.

In 2014, WKU became the fourth university to be accredited by the National Safety Council as a safe community. The SGA also takes part in annual campus safety walks in search of locations that need safety improvements.

“While we as administrators agree that there are certain areas that are more safe than others, there are also areas where there’s the impression that we’re unsafe, but truly we are safe due to the many measures the university takes,” Zach Jones, the committee chair for campus improvements, said.

Newly-elected senator Spencer Wells spoke in favor of finding “hotspots,” or areas on-campus where attacks are more common, in order to better protect against violence.

“My girlfriend’s scared to walk outside most nights,” Wells said. “It’s very dangerous to walk home.”

In addition to Wells’ appointment to the senate, Megan Armstrong was also appointed to the judicial council. Wells and Armstrong were appointed following the resignation of two SGA members last week.

“I’m very excited to work with SGA in general because I think the organization has made great strides in improving our campus and making it a safer place,” Armstrong said in an email. “In the end, being appointed to such an incredible organization is very humbling and thrilling and I hope to help continue making WKU an even better place.”

In his report, SGA Presi-

dent Jay Todd Richey said he would potentially be lobbying with fellow SGA members in the spring. Possible issues to be discussed include tax reform, gender-neutral bathrooms, concealed carry laws and free-speech zones.

The SGA will discuss several bills at its next meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 25, including funding for several organizations, support of fair and diverse main campus housing and an amendment to the SGA’s constitution.

Reporter Jamie Williams can be reached at 270-745-6011 and jamie.williams539@topper.wku.edu.

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Exorcism off the big screen and in practice

BY MILLIE RONKAINEN HERALD.OPINION@WKU.EDU

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creaming girls, maniacal dolls and blood dripping from the walls –– typical Hollywood depictions of demonic possession and romanticized exorcisms. What are exorcisms? What is true demonic possession and how does it occur?

Simply put, an exorcism is the removal of a demon from the bodily presence of a person or from an object such as a house. It is performed by a specially trained priest known as an exorcist that follows a certain structure set by the Catholic Church. An exorcism is only performed if it can be Millie definitely determined Ronkainen that person or object is possessed.

There are several telltale signs that distinguish possession from other conditions such as a mental illness.

Signs can also indicate the severity of the possession which can range from mild to severe.

A person who is possessed will

have an extreme aversion to holy things. A priest once told me that a possessed man jumped through a plate-glass window to escape drops of blessed water. Sometimes possessed people will have extraordinary strength, such as a frail old lady who threw an entire couch out a window during her possession.

People suffering from a possession sometimes display knowledge of secret information or fluently speak a language they have not learned.

Demons can only possess someone who gives them permission to do so. Permission can be given in seemingly insignificant actions, most notably mantras, séances and use of a Ouija board. Sometimes priests will ask the demon its name during exorcisms. One demon revealed his name to be the personal mantra of the man whom he was possessing. The man had been saying this mantra during meditation and had summoned the demon into himself by repeating his name.

Séances and Ouija boards are direct methods of communication with demons who disguise themselves as spirits of the dead. They present a danger because they inherently open the mind to demons while they are spiritually present.

My aunt was the subject of an exorcism a few years ago. She had been experiencing a mild form of possession displayed as extreme irritability, hearing whispers of voices in her house, and an aversion to holy things.

This was a result of her involvement in the New Age spirituality, fortune telling and séances. As the priest was praying over her, she said she felt a wrenching, burning sensation pulling away from her body, especially her stomach. The change in her behavior from pre-exorcism to post-exorcism was astounding.

She is happier, more lighthearted and more patient now, and when she laughs she genuinely seems to be enjoying herself.

Although movies may overdramatize the realities of possession and exorcism, both are very real phenomena. But do not be afraid. Good judgement can prevent demonic possessions.

With that being said, as we approach Halloween, I would encourage you to reconsider any adventures that may include Ouija boards or communication with the dead.

Neither are worth the discomfort of even a mild possession.

I returned to WKU in June 2015 after many years in the workforce, under a provision of Kentucky Law K.R.S. Section 164.284, which allows senior citizens to attend any state-supported institution of higher learning free of all tuition and fees.

During the summer session of 2015 the Billings and Receivables office put a hold on my transcript for nonpayment of tuition. After they were contacted by a veteran’s representative, my account was corrected to show a $0.00 balance.

During the fall 2015 semester, the Billings and Receivables office again put a nonpayment hold on my account. Again, they were contacted, and it was corrected.

When I received a bill for the 2016 winter session, I sent a strongly worded email to the Billings and Receivables office, stating that if they sent me one more bill, I would forward said bill to the Kentucky State Legislature so that they could investigate WKU’s accounts payable office, and why accounts payable choses to ignore the law.

During the spring semester, no one from accounts payable sent me any bills and there were no holds placed on my transcript.

On Thursday, Oct. 13, I received another bill from the Billings and Receivables office advising that I was barred from registering for next semester and there is a hold on my account.

Now I wonder if WKU hires high school dropouts who can’t read to do their billings.

- Edmond V. Schwab, Sr.

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Ken Bone and his question about energy

BY TAYLOR HUFF HERALD.OPINION@WKU.EDU Anyone who watched the second presidential debate likely noticed a certain well-dressed man with a vigorous enthusiasm for clean energy steal the spotlight.

At the last debate Americans across the nation and party lines discovered Ken Bone, a town hall participant who posed the question of how our nation can satisfy our energy needs in an environmentally friendly fashion.

Bone became an overnight sensation, a man who viewers crowned the real winner of the previous presidential debate. Due to this exposure, Bone’s social media presence has grown vastly from seven Twitter followers to over 248,000 in the matter of a week.

The midwestern, coal plant operator has also been the subject of countless memes on social media

being compared to a “Guess Who” character and the antagonist of “Toy Story 2” to name only a few.

He has also been featured and discussed on several primetime comedy shows including “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “The Daily Show” and “The Ellen Degeneres Show.”

The world came dangerously close to overlooking Ken Bone but was saved thanks to a last-minute wardrobe malfunction.

In an interview with the New York Times, Bone told reporters he had originally planned on sporting an olive suit to the debate but was forced to change clothes after ripping his pants.

If there’s one thing we all know, no girl ever wants to debate with a fool who went and ripped his pants.

Many of us are aware of Ken Bone and the joke he has become through Facebook and Twitter, but finding ways to implement clean energy sources without taking away jobs from the hard-working people in the

fossil fuel industry has been an issue that has plagued the country and countless presidential campaigns.

The concept of climate change as a result of fossil fuel emissions has many politicians split as to what’s the best course of action. As far as our presidential candidates are concerned, one sees it as an imminent threat while the other believes it to be a hoax invented by the Chinese.

Bonus points if you can figure out which one is which.

Politicians aren’t the only ones weighing in on this issue. Celebrities are getting into the mix including Leonardo DiCaprio who has his own foundation dedicated to combating environmental issues like climate change.

The whole concept of climate change seems to make us all uncomfortable, like Bill O’Reilly at an Earth, Wind & Fire concert.

Many of us hesitate to form an opinion on climate change because one day we hear the science is clear

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while the next we see politicians say the experts are overreacting.

Until those in power accept climate change as a valid threat, attempts at addressing the problem will remain half-hearted and unsuccessful.

One thing does remain clear and that is you have a voice. This November we are given the privilege of voting thanks to those who have sacrificed and continue to sacrifice their lives for our freedom.

We are given the opportunity to have a say in how those in Washington decide to tackle, or ignore, climate change.

Regardless of how this apocalypse of an election turns out, it was nice seeing someone on the debate stage with genuine care for the real issues as opposed to the usual pessimism and shallow insults.

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Spanish film festival celebrates cinema

BY EMMA AUSTIN HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU

The department of modern languages kicked off a Spanish film festival this week, showing contemporary movies from Spanish-speaking countries.

In a partnership with the dean’s office of Potter College of Arts and Letters, WKU libraries and the WKU Spanish club.

The festival includes screenings of five different films. The first showing was Monday; the final will be on Wednesday, Oct. 26. The selection includes films from Venezuela, Spain, Peru, Uruguay and Colombia.

“I’m hoping for students to have a wider understanding of culture,” Sonia Lenk, associate Spanish professor who introduced Tuesday night’s film, said. “I think it’s important to get exposure to other films that are not mainstream.”

The films were acquired through Pragda, a distributor of Iberoamerican films to universities for public showings to promote language and culture education.

Brain Coutts, department head of library public services, said he had received emails from Pragda last year about the grant they offered to universities; once WKU was able to raise $1,250, Pragda matched the price to fund a selection of five films to be featured throughout the month.

Coutts reached out to Inmaculada Pertusa, Spanish professor, for help writing the grant to send to Pragda.

Pertusa spearheaded the project, he said; the two worked together to fundraise the money needed to receive the grant match.

“The endeavor was to appeal to Western students to try to get a differing perspective,” Coutts said. Another

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Abbi Broadway of Abbi’s Barkery sells dog treats at the WKU Bark in the Park event on Sunday, Oct. 16, to raise money to purchase a Seizure Response Dog. Broadway was diagnosed with epilepsy a year and a half ago and has recently put down a deposit on a German Shepherd service dog which she will go meet in the upcoming few days. Abbi’s Barkery is a nonprofit started by Broadway and her family to help others in need of service dogs, their Barkery will open on Tuesday, Nov. 1, in Franklin, and it will have its official Grand Opening on Saturday, Nov 19. Lex Selig/HERALD

abbi’s barkery nonprofit to help children in need of service dogs

BY EMMA AUSTIN

HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU About a year and a half ago, 9-yearold Abbi Broadway’s life changed when she had her first seizure. She had been playing with a friend after school while her mother, a teacher, was working late. Her friend ended up leaving, and Abbi Broadway was in the workroom by herself, where her mother found her unconscious.

“It was scary,” Abbi Broadway’s mom, Robin Broadway, said. “You feel like [she’s] dying every time it happens. There’s no other way to describe it.”

It was a struggle learning how to handle Abbi Broadway’s diagnosis of epilepsy, her mom said.

“She said it doesn’t really bother her much to have it,” Robin Broadway

said. “So, that, I’m thankful for. We really try to involve her in a lot and make sure she’s happy.”

While learning about how to treat and deal with Abbi Broadway’s diagnosis, she and her family learned about the possibility of getting a service dog that could warn her if she was about to have a seizure. They started by looking into organizations, usually out of state, who offered fully-trained epilepsy service dogs. However, the price rested at around $20,000, and the waiting list was two years.

Robin Broadway said she started praying for something her daughter could be involved with. She remembered a pet service business plan Abbi Broadway wrote when she was 4.

Then, one day last year, the two were at Ollie’s in the book section, where they found a dog treat cookbook.

“We bought it and started playing with some recipes, and then a thought just hit me,” Robin Broadway said.

“We’ll just make these and sell them at the farmer’s market. So we bought a booth, and started doing that April 28.”

Abbi Broadway started saving the money from her new business to put toward buying and training a service dog. Buying an untrained puppy would drop the $20,000 price to an initial $3,000.

Robin Broadway said everything fell into place throughout their research and planning. After months of saving, Abbi Broadway will finally get her puppy in November. An epilepsy dog trainer from Franklin, where the Broadways live, found Abbi Broadway through the woman with a booth next

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Speakers share Bowling Green Airport history

BY MEGAN COLE HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU Jake Curtis, Bowling Green local, said he took the first flight of his life in 1954 at the Bowling Green Regional Airport.

“It was absolutely exhilarating,” Curtis said. “And I’ve flown many times since.”

The Special Collections Department of WKU Libraries partnered with Landmark Association and Co-Mar Aviation to host “I’ll Fly Away: The History of the Bowling Green/Warren County Airport” on Tuesday, Oct. 18, an event discussing the early history of the local airport.

Taking turns discussing what the history of the airport included was Jonathan Jeffrey, Special Collections department head, Sue Lynn McDaniel, associate professor in the Library of Special Collections and Lynn Niedermeier, archival assistant in the Library of Special Collections.

Newspaper articles and photos almost 100 years old were used from the WKU Libraries to assist in telling stories; stories of planes coming to Bowling Green to fly over and observe the oil fields in the early 1920’s. Another was a story of a WKU student in 1918 falling through a sky light in the ceiling of Van Meter when running across the roof to watch airplanes soar over the town.

To take a ride in a three-passenger airplane at the time was $10, which is

Jonathan Jeffery, head of the department of library special collections and manuscripts/folklife archives coordinator, discusses the history of the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the airport. Jeffrey was one of three WKU faculty who spoke during the presentation. Hannah Leboeuf/HERALD the equivalent to $120 today.

The Bowling Green airport was once highly reputable and known as “the best aviation service in the south,” according to one of the articles from the collection.

Stories of economic depression, social perseverance and the act of lobbying for the airport to remain; all were

essential pieces of the puzzle put together that is now called history.

After the closing of the presentation, the crowd that had gathered to hear the rich history of their town got up from their seats and the room was filled with people reuniting and catching up with one another.

Gaps were closed, friends were em-

braced and chatter quickly filled the room.

Among this group of people was Dan Cherry. Flying in his first airplane at the age of 5, serving 29 years in the air force as a pilot and then flying his own plane for eight years after retiring

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goal was to broaden the appeal to people off-campus as well, he added.

Spanish professor Melissa Stewart said the festival is a great opportunity for not only students, but also for the Bowling Green community.

“These are really contemporary films,” Stewart said. “People can enjoy them and get a lot out of them; they don’t seem really obscure.”

All come from Hispanic countries, she said, and are films students would otherwise not have an opportunity to see.

Generally, films from other countries have a much lower budget than Hollywood films, which are typically

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to theirs at the farmer’s market.

“We were just floored,” Robin Broadway said. “It all comes back to when originally I just felt we didn’t need to go out of state. We could do all this locally.”

In two weeks, Abbi Broadway will meet a litter of German Shepherds for the first time to find a puppy to start her training with. A trainer who also has epilepsy agreed to come down from Chicago to assess the litter and find out which puppies meet the criteria needed from a service dog.

“If I’m about to have a seizure, it’ll start barking before I have one,” Abbi Broadway said. It will also know how to secure her in a safe place so she doesn’t get hurt during the seizure, her mother added.

“What’s really cool is that Abigail

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from the air force, Cherry has a lot of miles and time in the sky under his belt.

“It’s a feeling of complete independence and escape from everything on the ground,” Cherry said about flying.

“Even flying in the simplest of airplanes requires the extreme amounts of concentration. When you come

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produced for entertainment purposes only, Lenk said. Hispanic films often focus on certain ideas or social issues, she explained.

“Other countries have interesting ways to turn very interesting pieces that gives you a different perspective on life,” Lenk said. “They make pretty amazing things. It is a completely different perspective and way of presenting, I think, that gives us a different understanding of ourselves and the world.”

The festival’s first film, “3 Bellezas,” or “3 Beauties,” told the story of a mother who puts forth unlimited efforts to fulfill her childhood obsession of becoming a beauty queen by living through her two daughters in a “scathing satire of Venezuela’s fixation with

beauty and its relation to social status,” according to the description on Pragda’s website.

The second film, “El País del Miedo,” or “The Country of Fear,” showed Tuesday night and told the story of a child’s experience with bully and how it affected his family.

Louisville sophomore Andi Dahmer said she noticed a difference between “El País del Miedo” and American cinema in the way it lacked emphasis on a happy ending.

“From a cinematic perspective, I thought it was really interesting that as the main character’s paranoia grew, the style of filming became more dissociated,” she said. “I thought that really added something I’m not sure you’d see in American cinema.”

Dahmer said she would recommend students attend the festival’s final two screenings, which are scheduled to play on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

“I think that it’s really important to take advantage of this amazing cultural opportunity while it’s here at WKU,” she said. “I think it will be really cool to see different countries as they’re represented through film.”

The festival is free of charge and open to the public. Each screening is located in Mass Media Auditorium at 6 p.m.

[Broadway] will get to compete in dog sports as they train,” Robin Broadway said. “It’s going to open up a whole new world for her. It will not just be a service dog, but a companion.”

The unknown was scary, Robin Broadway said, explaining they never knew when their daughter would have her next seizure. The dog will change that, and give Abbi Broadway and her family peace of mind knowing she’ll be safe.

Abbi Broadway said she’s very excited to get her dog, who she’ll be able to take with her everywhere. She already has decided on a name, Wrylan, inspired by the breeder’s alphabet system of keeping up with the puppy litters; Abbi Broadway’s puppy will come from the “W” group.

Although Abbi Broadway is ready to buy her puppy, she said she doesn’t plan on closing Abbi’s Barkery.

“We started a non-profit,” Abbi

Broadway said. “We’re going to raise money for other kids to get service dogs and these detection bracelets.

Whenever you’re about to have a seizure it alerts you.”

The treats are made from all-natural ingredients, and cover a wide range of flavors, including Canine Carrot, Mulberry Maniac, Peachirrific and Pumpkin Poochie Smoochies.

“I was trying to get some of my friends to eat them, but they won’t, just because they’re called doggie treats,” Abbi Broadway said. “I mean, if they were called granola or cookies or whatever, they would eat it.”

Abbi Broadway also sells puppy birthday cakes and greeting cards hand-painted by her grandmother.

“She was doing people portraits, and then when this all started, she decided to do pet portraits and donate 100 percent of the proceeds to her dog,” Robin Broadway said. “Once she gets her dog,

she’ll donate a regular percentage of sales to the corporation.”

Abbi’s Barkery will also soon have its own storefront at the square in Franklin, something Abbi Broadway had been dreaming of doing. They plan on using each month’s proceeds to go toward a specific child in need of a service dog.

“People can know that what they buy is going toward a good cause, and helping” Robin Broadway said. “It’s not just a regular purchase. We want to help kids in our communities. We’ll definitely branch out and go further, but we just want to start here, where it’s been the premise for everything.”

down from that, subconsciously you have put aside all of your worries and your greatest concentration is flying that airplane.”

One of the best things about this, Cherry added, is that you come down from a flight completely refreshed from the world and all of the problems in it.

If you’re a good pilot, you go up, trying to fly the perfect flight and accom-

plish the perfect mission, Cherry said.

“You know good and well that never happens, but you keep trying,” Cherry added, laughing. “Good pilots never take flying for granted.”

Cherry reflected, adding that it’s a continuous learning process, a process in which you can never stop being refined, which he says has also cultivated humility and diligence.

“If I had anything to say to anyone interested in flying it would be that if

you’re going to fly at all, you need to fly a lot.”

Jake Curtis said flying is closely related to the way in which we approach life. “It’s exciting and terrifying and you have to be determined and not give up,” Curtis said.

Reporter Emma Austin can be reached at 270-745-2655 and emma.austin177@topper.wku.edu. Follow her on Twitter at @emmacaustin.

Reporter Emma Austin can be reached at 270-745-2655 and emma.austin177@topper.wku.edu. Follow her on Twitter at @emmacaustin.

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WKU alumni to wed at Homecoming tailgate

BY EMMA AUSTIN

HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU Two WKU alumni plan to bring their love story in a full circle at their wedding this Saturday; the ceremony will be on the steps outside of Van Meter Auditorium, followed by a tailgate reception on South Lawn before the Homecoming football game.

Todd Porter and Ashlea Shepherd connected for the first time at the fountain on the square downtown after the 2014 Homecoming parade. Shepherd asked if he was going to the game tomorrow. Porter said he wasn’t sure.

Shepherd said Porter now tells her that once he found out she was going to the game, he decided he would, too.

He texted her and offered her a ticket to sit with him, which she accepted.

“That was the first time we ever hung out and got to be around each other,” Shepherd said. “I think we realized we liked each other very quickly, and it just went from there. So that’s why we picked Homecoming day to get married.”

Almost two years later in July, Porter proposed to Shepherd at the fountain in Square Park, where they first talked with each other.

After the two got engaged, they considered a destination wedding or just getting married in Bowling Green without telling anyone and going straight to their honeymoon.

“I remember having a conversation with her,” Porter said. “Yeah, it would be cool to go off and do it where nobody else was a part of it, and then we don’t have to worry about the hassle of a typical wedding.”

However, Porter said he wanted Shepherd’s father to have the chance to walk her down the aisle and give her away.

“I feel like that’s something a dad should get to do,” Porter said. “Especially a dad who only has one daughter.”

So, the two began brainstorming possible venues for the big day.

“We started thinking about it,” Shepherd said. “Homecoming would be the most perfect thing, and we just decided that would be very serendipitous just to all come full circle and do it at Homecoming.”

This Saturday, the couple will have a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. on the steps outside Van Meter Auditorium. Guests will have red towels instead of rice or bubbles, and will follow the newly-

Todd Porter and Ashlea Shepherd hold a copy of their wedding invitation. Porter and Shepherd, both WKU alumni, will get married Saturday, Oct. 22, during Homecoming festivities. Megan Strasswegg/HERALD weds in a parade to South Lawn after the ceremony for a tailgate reception.

“We don’t have any idea how many people to expect,” Shepherd said. “I think we’ve told just about anybody who’ll listen that they’re more than welcome, so we’ve prepared for a lot of people.”

Shepherd worked with WKU event coordinators to organize the ceremony and reception.

“We don’t want anybody to stop for us,” Shepherd said. “We don’t want anything around us to change. We don’t want anybody to stop what they’re doing around us to focus on us.”

Shepherd described it as a flash mob wedding; the ceremony and reception would just be another part of this year’s Homecoming.

Both said their family and friends were all excited when they heard about the venue and plans for the ceremony.

No one reacted like they wouldn’t come just because it wasn’t going to be a traditional ceremony at the church, Porter said.

“I get a lot of, ‘that’s the coolest idea ever,’” Shepherd said. “I mean, my parents were there for the proposal; he did

it right.”

Shepherd said the planning has gone relatively smoothly in collaborating with WKU and getting family and friends to come out.

“We’ve done everything ourselves for the most part, besides catering,” Shepherd said.

“It hasn’t been nearly as stressful as I’ve been making it out to be to him, I think,” she added, smiling at her fiancée.

Both Shepherd and Porter are self-proclaimed diehard WKU fans.

“I probably love tailgating more than I love football, and he loves football more than he loves tailgating,” Shepherd said. “So we’re going to get the best parts of it.”

Porter said he likes the history of WKU athletics and watching the football team’s progression in recent years.

“WKU is my number one team,” Porter said. “I don’t have love in my heart for anybody else.”

“He begrudges me for being loyal to UK,” Shepherd chimed in. She went to the University of Kentucky for graduate school before she came back to Bowling Green to practice family law.

“When it comes to it, though, I pick WKU.” Shepherd said she loves Homecoming and seeing the alumni come together back on campus. Porter, now a Bowling Green police officer and member of the National Guard, had his studies interrupted by deployment to Bosnia and later to Iraq before graduating, so he didn’t have traditional Homecoming experiences as a student.

“This will probably be my first Homecoming memory,” he said.

Shepherd said she thinks the wedding will be one of a kind.

“I think it will be something people who come by and see it, even if they aren’t involved in it, are going to remember,” Shepard said. “This will be a part of WKU’s history, whether or not it’s significant to anyone else but us, but it will be a part of it.”

Reporter Emma Austin can be reached at 270-745-2655 and emma.austin177@topper.wku.edu. Follow her on Twitter at @emmacaustin.

Students promote cultural relations at summit

BY FORDE WOMBACK

HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU Two student founders of WKU’s Project Pengyou recently traveled to a leadership summit held at Harvard University to discuss and learn skills in cross-cultural leadership and how to improve individual chapters of Project Pengyou.

Akron, Ohio, sophomore Francis Wilson and senior Bree Pan, China, established WKU’s chapter last year.

“I had discovered Project Pengyou in my study abroad program in Beijing,” Wilson said. “I was excited and motivated by hearing people’s stories on their abroad experiences, which led me to say ‘Hey, WKU would benefit from these resources!’”

Wilson went to last year’s summit at the University of California Berkeley,

and returned this year to shoot photos and be the media producer.

“It was a great experience for me,” Wilson said. “I was able to sit in and relisten to the lectures I had heard previously. What we focused on was how to tell an effective personal narrative our experiences in a way that motivates people to look at China in a different light.”

Pan said she thinks WKU and Bowling Green could benefit from the project in promoting cultural awareness.

“When I first arrived [to America], a man asked me if I ate dog,” Pan said.

“All I said was ‘no, but I hear Americans eat dogs, the hot ones.’ So I feel like Western, and Bowling Green would benefit from the project as some people still have stereotypes against Chinese.”

Pan spoke at the summit this year to

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a blend of people from China and students from American universities who came together to discuss team-building and improving the chapters.

“I was very nervous,” Pan said.

“There were a lot of people in the crowd, about 200 people. It was pretty cool. We all met up at Harvard, 14 different chapters, and we are all friends now. It’s surprising how fast we bonded over four days.”

“People think, and reasonably so, that learning Chinese is the way to know China,” Wilson said. “And that’s only part of it; the bigger whole is actually sitting down with people and hearing what they have to say. It’s to help raise a more sensitive, worldly, population so that we can have better relations with nations that were once a threat.”

Many people still believe China is a

threat, Wilson said, but he doesn’t see it that way.

“Recently, it’s been essential that we get to know China for reasons of politics and business,” Wilson said. Commonly, people see China as a threat, Wilson said, but he sees it as an opportunity.

Wilson said his primary career goal is to work as a public diplomat in the Department of State in the foreign offices, working primarily as a media consultant to broadcast United States policy and culture with foreign peoples and nations.

“That’s the goal,” Wilson said. “That’s the dream and every step I take I try to focus on that goal.”

Reporter Forde Womack can be reached at 270-745-2655 and forde. womack368@topper.wku.edu.

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Weekend matches take Lady Toppers to Texas

BY MATTHEW STEWART

HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU

The Lady Topper volleyball team (20-2) is headed to the lone star state this weekend for a pair of Conference USA matchups.

During the road swing, Head Coach Travis Hudson and company will be taking on the University of Texas El Paso (4-16) and the University of Texas San Antonio (14-4).

The matchups this weekend will be the first time this season the Lady Tops have taken on either of the teams from Texas. Last season WKU managed to win three total games against these conference foes.

First up for the Lady Tops is a crucial game against UTEP on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The Lady Miners are currently third in the C-USA standings and are looking to move up the rankings as WKU sits atop of the rankings still undefeated.

UTEP is led offensively by freshman outside hitter Macey Austin.

Austin has 175 kills on the season averaging 2.57 kills per set. Senior setter Lindsey Larson is also an important piece to the offense as she has dished out 369 assists on the season.

On the defensive side for the Miners they are led by senior defensive specialist Sarah Villa with 392 digs, good for a 5.23 dig per set average.

The Lady Tops will then travel to El Paso, Texas, to take on the Road Runners on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.

UTSA, one of the top tier volleyball squads in the conference, is led on the offensive side of the ball by senior outside hitter Dajana Boskovic with 305 kills on the year (4.62 kills per set). Its setter, senior Jessica Waldrip, has 638 assists on the season good for 9.67 assists per set.

Defensively, the runners have put up solid numbers as well. Sophomore defensive specialist Shelby Williams has 194 digs to her name this season.

Senior middle hitter Tessa Dahnert has 58 total blocks this season.

Junior outside hitter Sydney Engle goes up for a hit in WKU’s match against University of Alabama-Birmingham on Oct. 14, 2016 at Diddle Arena. Matt Lunsford/HERALD The Lady Tops continue to be led on offense by two All-Americans in junior outside hitter Alyssa Cavanaugh and junior setter Jessica Lucas.

Cavanaugh has thrown down 350 kills on the year which amounts to 4.38 kills per set. Lucas has 842 assists this season which equates to a staggering 11.53 assists per set.

Defensively, senior defensive specialist Georgia O’Connell leads the way in digs with 312 digs or 3.9 per set. Redshirt sophomore middle hitter Amara Listenbee leads WKU in blocks with 76 on the year.

In last year’s campaign the Lady Tops took down UTSA twice, winning both matches 3-1. WKU swept UTEP

3-0 in both meetings last season.

This weekend marks the first leg of the Lady Tops’ road trip as they will travel next to Marshall University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham before returning to Diddle Arena on Friday, Nov. 4, when they will host the Rice University Owls.

“Getting through the mid-season lull if you will and picking our energy back up,” Hudson said in a WKU press release. “We are moving toward tournament time and we only have seven games left. We are starting to get a lot of positive momentum with everybody being really confident and being ready once we move towards tournament time.”

Reporter Matthew Stewart can be reached at 270-745-6281 and matthew.stewart015@topper.wku.edu.

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Lady Tops struggle in Memphis Intercollegiate

BY SAM PORTER

HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The WKU women’s golf team traveled to Memphis, Tenn., this past Monday and Tuesday to compete in the two day-three round Memphis Women’s Intercollegiate at Ridgeway Country Club.

It was the first time the Lady Toppers traveled to the tournament under Head Coach Adam Gary.

The Lady Tops finished ninth out of the 13 team field, besting fellow Conference USA opponent University of Alabama-Birmingham while falling to Florida International.

“We were a little disappointed with our finish,” Gary said about his team’s result. “It was a tougher field in tough conditions and it was also tightly grouped together. We were only six shots out of fifth. Over the course of three days with five players, six shots isn’t very much.”

Freshman Mary Joiner once again led the Lady Tops with a 229 (82-7671) and finished 12th individually.

Entering the final day, Joiner was tied for 41st entering the final round and shot an even-par 71 to surge into

a the 12th place finish. The 12th place finish was the second top 15 finish of the season for the Franklin native “I did the same thing last tournament too,” Joiner commented on her improvement as the tournament went on. “I felt like I was hitting the ball well, but my scoring just wasn’t there. Each round I started making less mental mistakes and shaved off

final round, the Essex, England, native sat in 10th place individually.

However, Blackman’s 80 in the final round dropped her back for the 24th overall individual finish.

Despite the drop, Blackman finished in the top 25 for the third time in three tournaments this season.

Junior Emily Alexander finished 37th individually by shooting a

We just weren’t able to get all our scores together at the same time.”

Head Coach Adam Gary some strokes. It was very windy every round I was able to adjust to that as the tournament went on so I think that was a factor on why I improved.”

Consistency seemed to be a problem for the Lady Tops throughout the tournament.

Junior Georgina Blackman followed Joiner with a 231(73-78-80), finishing tied for 24th. Entering the

234(80-82-72). Like Joiner, Alexander had a strong final round that moved her up from 57th overall to a 37th place finish.

Junior Katie Story rounded out the scoring for the Lady Tops with a 235(74-81-80).

“We just weren’t able to get all our scores together at the same time,”

Gary said about the team’s inconsistency. “We had to count six scores in the 80’s which is something we haven’t had to do since I began coaching here. We had two girls play well one round and then not play well the next round. We also had two girls not play well the first round then play well the next round.”

The Lady Tops travel to Lakewood Ranch, Florida, next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to compete in the Pat Bradley Invitational hosted by Florida International.

The competition will be the second to last tournament for the Lady Tops for the 2016 calendar year.

“Going down to Florida will be good for us,” Gary finalized. “It’s supposed to be similar conditions to Memphis in terms of wind and grasses and greens are similar as well. We basically just had a warm up for this competition so I’m confident we can go down there and compete well.”

Reporter Sam Porter can be reached at 270-745-6291 and samuel.porter841@topper.wku.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @SammyP14.

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Continued from SPORTS gave up way too many perimeter throws … If we can take away those, and not give up so many deep balls over our head and make them throw real routes, we’ll be better.”

WKU’s last two games have essentially been shootouts between both offenses on the field, and graduate transfer linebacker Keith Brown said he’s not ready for another one.

“Of course not,” Brown said. “We want to lower the scoring that we allow and we just have to come out and be more aggressive on defense. We just have to come down and recognize the play faster and everybody has to come to the ball so that they don’t just cut

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not get the same memo that we did.

We continued to drive around a little while longer as we went down Greek row expecting to see a great atmosphere if the Greeks of MTSU were anything like the ones at WKU But once again we failed to see a single student or even a single person.

The campus was practically deserted only an hour and a half before game time.

We eventually found a tailgating area while we were walking into the stadium, but it was a relatively small area when compared with tailgating seen on WKU’s campus.

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regards to UTSA. “They’re scrappy. I think they have scored the most goals this season in the conference, but this season in the conference, but have also given up the most goals. They are the only team that has scored on North Texas this year and that’s big.”

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back and turn it up field.”

Brown spends most of his time trying to stop people from turning up the field, but in last week’s victory at MTSU, he did some cutting back himself.

With just under 11 minutes remaining in the game, a pass was batted directly into Brown’s hands on the WKU 17-yard line. He returned the only turnover forced by WKU all the way to the MTSU 33-yard line.

Forcing turnovers like that haven’t been as common as they were a season ago when the Toppers finished tied for fourth in turnover margin.

The WKU defense has forced just seven turnovers all season. Brown said the 52-yard sprint that followed his interception was the longest he can re-

member running in a game.

“Yeah it was,” Brown laughed. “That was actually my first career interception. [Turnovers] are key. We want to get the ball back to our offense. The more opportunities we give them, the more touchdowns we’ll put on the board.”

The good news for the Topper defense in light of its recent struggles is that ODU’s defensive attack isn’t much better on paper.

The Monarchs allow 25.5 points and 383 total yards per game, which is below average considering their schedule up to this point. The combined record of ODU’s opponents is 17-21, and only one of those opponents is averaging more than 26 points per game (North Carolina State).

The Toppers currently have the 15th ranked offense in the nation, averaging 37.6 points per game and racking up 467 total yards on average each week.

“They’re going to wait for you to make a mistake,” quarterbacks coach Brian Brohm said in a WKU press release. “We can’t have turnovers. We have to convert on third down. They’re really going to make you execute at a high level, so we have to do that.”

Kickoff for the Homecoming match up is set for 6 p.m. Saturday night.

We made it up to MTSU’s extremely nice press box where we got ready to cover the game. To no surprise, the stadium was a lot like the campus: mostly empty and quiet.

The announced attendance was over 22,000 people, but I can personally guarantee that not even half of them were present at the game.

How could it be that one of Conference USA’s best teams could not receive a worthy game-day atmosphere or an appropriate number of fans at their game?

I texted one of my friends who was from nearby Nashville and asked what the deal was, and he was able to give me a very depressing answer.

He said that whenever the Univer-

sity of Tennessee at Knoxville has a big home game that a lot of the students at MTSU will go to that game instead of their own school’s game.

Considering that the Volunteers had a huge match up against the University of Alabama that Saturday, this was the only reason I could think of for why the atmosphere was so lethargic.

So why did I tell this story? Well, I did so because this weekend is Homecoming weekend at WKU, and year after year this university provides students and fans with an awesome Homecoming experience.

Thousands of people roam all over over campus and almost anywhere you look there is someone tailgating or having a good time.

I can’t help but to sympathize with small schools the size of MTSU and WKU as I’m sure that a lot of them have trouble getting fans out to football games.

However, WKU is obviously not one of these schools and that is something that fans and students can be proud of.

So the next time you are tailgating in the Valley or cheering on the Hilltoppers from the Berm at Smith Stadium, just remember to be thankful that you don’t go MTSU.

As for WKU, freshman forward Chandler Backes leads the offensive attack.

Backes, a Carmel, Indiana, native, has scored 10 goals so far on the season, which ranks her first in all of C-USA. On top of that, the versatile player is second among all Division I freshmen in that category, trailing the

University of South Florida’s Evelyne Viens by one score.

On the defensive side of things, junior goalkeeper Allison Leone does the net protecting for the Lady Tops. Leone has made 49 saves for a save percentage of .845 in 1357:40 minutes played.

Her high save number ranks her first in the league in that category.

Following Thursday’s meeting with Texas-San Antonio, WKU will have a week off before hosting Old Dominion University on Friday, Oct. 28, for a 7 p.m. contest.

Reporter Evan Heichelbech can be reached at 270-745-6291 and evan. heichelbech059@topper.wku.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @evanheich.

Reporter John Reecer can be reached at 270-745-6291 and john.reecer104@ topper.wku.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @Reece_12_Falcon.

Reporter Tyler Mansfield can be reached at 270-745-6291 and james. mansfield143@topper.wku.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @ByMansfield.

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opponents.

While Old Dominion’s total offensive statistics aren’t the highest of other opponents on WKU’s schedule this season, the Monarchs are averaging 34 points and 427 total yards per contest –– two numbers that are right around what the Tops are giving up on average this season.

Brohm talked about putting a complete game together with all three facets of the team performing to their top potential, and said the defense has a lot of room for improvement.

“We’re not close enough right now,” Brohm said of the prospects of a complete game. “Offensively we did some good things. In the first half we didn’t punt, but unfortunately, they didn’t punt either. As a defense you just have to find ways to get stops. If you look at our defense this past week, we just

Last weekend I had the opportunity to travel to Middle Tennessee State University for coverage of the Hilltoppers’ showdown with their arch-rivals.

As a senior at WKU, I was very excited for this opportunity to cover what was one of the last football rivalry games as a reporter for the College Heights Herald.

I had been to Murfressboro, Tennessee, once for a WKU-MTSU football game as a sophomore, but I had forgotten a lot of that experience as I got to the game late and I didn’t get to see a lot of the game day atmosphere.

I’ve been to a number of colleges as both a student and a reporter on game day, and I’ve experienced some great atmospheres as every Saturday college football transforms these campuses into environments full of tailgating, excitement and passion.

However, I did not get this experience JOHN when I traveled to REECER Murfressboro on Saturday.

I wasn’t alone as I was traveling with Evan Heichelbech, the football beat writer for the Herald. We had planned to show up early for the game in order to walk around campus and experience yet another great atmosphere as it was MTSU’s Homecoming game.

Instead, what we found when we pulled up to one of the entrances to the university was miles of empty parking lots and almost no one at all walking around campus.

We pulled up to MTSU’s Student Union and I was fully expecting a tumbleweed to drift across the road just like in one of those old spaghetti western movies.

I was genuinely so confused that I honestly asked Evan to look up the time for the game. I thought that it had to be at a different time.

Of course he got there at the right time, but the students of MTSU did

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Redshirt junior quarterback Mike White (14) drops back to pass during WKU’s game against Vanderbilt Saturday, Sept. 24, at Smith Stadium. Jeff Brown/HERALD

coming home wku looks to keep momentum rolling against odu

BY EVAN HEICHELBECH HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU

Head Coach Jeff Brohm preaches to his football team that every week is the beginning of a new season: a onegame season.

That’s all he and his players focused on last week in preparation for a rivalry showdown with Conference USA leader Middle Tennessee State University.

This week’s theme is no different with Old Dominion coming to town on Saturday as the Hilltoppers currently sit one game behind the second-place Monarchs.

“No, we take it one at a time,” Brohm said. “But I think anytime you can get some momentum it helps and being back in our stadium is always beneficial. This is a tough conference game. There’s a lot riding on it. If Old Dominion wins the football game,

they’re in control. If we can find a way to win, we’re going to continue to have a chance for that championship shot.”

WKU (4-3, 2-1 C-USA) has alternated wins and losses this season, and is still looking to shore up its defensive woes after giving up 98 points in its last two games.

“We’ve got to get up and challenge things more,” Brohm said. “We have to get set and have the proper alignment … Our guys are playing on their heels; they’re not playing downhill or getting off blocks. We’re allowing ourselves to get blocked on the perimeter and getting cut all the time. If you’re going to give them perimeter throws and give them easy completions, you’re going to be in for a long day.”

The Topper defense currently ranks 103rd of 128 FBS teams in total defense, surrendering 424 yards per game and just under 30 points to its

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Lady Tops take on Texas-San Antonio tonight

BY TYLER MANSFIELD HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The WKU women’s soccer team returns to Conference USA action as it will take on the University of Texas at San Antonio at the WKU Soccer Complex, beginning at 7 p.m.

The Lady Toppers (11-5-0 overall, 6-2-0 C-USA) are coming off a split weekend after falling to Florida Atlantic University, 1-0 on Friday evening and grabbing a 1-0 victory over Florida International University on Sunday to close out their final road swing of the season.

With Sunday’s win over the Panthers, WKU clinched a spot in next month’s C-USA Tournament, which takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“It’s an exciting process,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said. “We had the goal set for the season that we wanted to clinch a postseason spot early and play for the C-USA championship.

We’re right where we thought we could be.”

Not only did the victory secure that place, but it also pushed the Lady Tops

back on top of the league standings.

Although Neidell’s club was picked to finish eighth in the Preseason C-USA Poll, he says he knew what they were capable of.

“I had total confidence that we’d be able to do what we’ve been doing,” Neidell stated. “Back in the preseason, I picked this team to win it. I knew we could be where we are now and now we’re sitting there.”

The Roadrunners (7-9-0, 3-4-0 C-USA) enter Bowling Green following a 2-1 road win at the University of Alabama at Birmingham last Sunday. In the victory, two different players found the back of the net and although UAB outshot UTSA, 16-12, the club still had enough to put a check in the win column.

UTSA, who is currently in eighth place in the C-USA standings, is paced by junior forward Kaja Skare.

On the year, Skare has scored seven goals for 16 total points on 31 shots.

With that success, the junior also holds a .226 shot percentage and has been the offensive leader for her group.

On the defensive side of the ball,

Redshirt sophomore midfielder Sarah Gotham (10) celebrates with senior forward Iris Dunn (12) during WKU’s game against UAB on Friday, Oct. 7.

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sophomore goalkeeper Michelle Cole leads the Roadrunners. The experienced net defender has saved 26 shots so far on the season and holds a save

percentage of .553 in 737:43 minutes played.

“They’re very good,” Neidell said in

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