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TOP - Mallory Vaughn, of Bowling Green, accepts an award from President Gary Ransdell after being named the 2016 Homecoming Queen on Saturday, Oct. 22, at Smith Stadium. Vaughn was sponsored by Chi Omega and Sigma Phi Epsilon. Abby Potter/HERALD LEFT - Senior Anna Durham cheers with her Delta Zeta sisters during the judging of the Homecoming floats before the Homecoming parade Friday, Oct. 21, on Avenue of Champions. Brendan O’Hern/HERALD RIGHT - Graduate student Jenesa Moran, center, holds a sign bearing the names of people killed during encounters with police officers while posing for a photo with Zeta Phi Beta before performing in the step show on Friday, Oct. 21, in Van Meter Hall. Brendan O’Hern/HERALD

Racial crime victims disappointed with WKUPD BY EMMA COLLINS HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU On Wednesday, Oct. 5, while Bowling Green sophomore Francisco Serrano and his girlfriend were walking outside of the Downing Student Union, a McDonald’s cup was suddenly thrown at them, according to Serrano. His girlfriend’s shoes were splattered with an unknown liquid as they both looked up to see what Serrano later described as a black Hyundai Tiburon driving past them. A passenger yelled a racial slur as the car drove away. Serrano’s experience is just one of a number of race-related crimes that have occurred on campus since school started in August. On Tuesday, Aug. 30, a racial slur was carved into Lexington senior Cheyenne Mitchell’s car. On Wednesday, Sept. 7, Louisville freshman Tarik Maddox was hit with a bottle of urine as she walked with a group of her friends to Pierce Ford Tower. During a several day period in September, Michelle Jones, an associate math professor, found several threatening notes containing racist language slipped under her door. All of the victims had two things in common: they are members of minority groups and they are all unhappy with how the WKU Police Department has handled their cases. Mitchell’s case was the first incident to make the news. On Tuesday, Aug. 30, Mitchell called the WKUPD to report her car had been vandalized with a racial slur. Someone had also keyed the driver side fender and let the air out of the front driver side tire. “It was just kind of shocking,”

Mitchell said. “It was a lot to deal with.” After her friend had an altercation with another driver in Parking Structure 1 earlier that day, Mitchell said when she returned to her car after class she saw the vandalism. “It upset me some and scared me a little bit because I didn’t know what to do,” Mitchell said in a previous College Heights Herald article. “I was in shock about it that somebody would do that to my car in broad daylight.” After calling WKUPD, Mitchell said an officer arrived at the scene, documented the crime and took pictures of her car. Since then, she said she

ing Green Police Department and received the number and the name of the man who called to report the situation with Mitchell’s friend in PS1. Casas said the WKUPD contacted the man who said he was willing to do whatever was necessary to prove he was innocent. Ultimately, the WKUPD decided the man had not vandalized Mitchell’s car. Contrary to Mitchell’s story, Casas said he had been in touch with her several times. He said he even encouraged her to take the crime report to the county attorney’s office to see if the office would want to press charges against the man. So far, Ca-

It’s kind of aggravating to know they havn’t done anything or at least if they have done anything they haven’t told me.” Lexington senior Cheyenne Mitchell has had little contact with the university police. She does not feel the police have taken much initiative with her case. She said she has received a few updates but not nearly as many as she would have liked, and she still does not know if any progress has been made. “It’s kind of aggravating to know they haven’t done anything or at least if they have done anything they haven’t told me,” Mitchell said. WKUPD Sergeant Rafael Casas said the police have done everything possible to solve Mitchell’s case. A WKUPD officer contacted the Bowl-

sas said Mitchell has yet to pick up the report. Maddox also complained about a lack of updates from the WKUPD regarding her case. On the night of Wednesday, Sept. 7, Maddox said she was walking with a group of friends from Chili’s back to PFT. As they were walking, a car drove by and threw a bottle of urine at the group. “I was just like, ‘really?’ –– on a campus where they said it’s safe,” Maddox said. “After that, I’m like ‘no it’s not.’” Maddox said she reported the incident the next day to an officer from the WKUPD. She said she felt the

officer’s response seemed insincere and she left feeling nothing would be done. “I just felt like it was another thing that I just have to go through,” Maddox said. Serrano and Jones also felt the WKUPD lacked interest in their cases at first. Jones said she went to the WKUPD several days after the incident to file a police report. The officer she met with copied the documents and took down her contact information. “When I left the police department the first time, I left there with the mindset that, ‘oh well nothing’s going to be done about this,’ and I did not like leaving there with that feeling,” Jones said. According to the incident report from Jones’s case, after the officer met with Jones he determined the notes were not “a violation of Kentucky law.” Casas said when it is determined an incident is not a crime, the officer is supposed to inform the victim no crime was committed. Jones said she was never told it did not meet the criteria for a crime. Casas said the officer initially determined the incident was not a crime because Jones did not share all the information with the officer when she went to the police department. “The initial officer didn’t do a crime report because he didn’t feel that it met the standards and the necessary requirements for the harassment or for the terroristic threatening,” Casas said. Once more information was received, Casas said the incident was determined to be a crime. He said he did not know why the officer did not

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

A2 ‘Young Visionary’ receives national recognition BY JAMIE WILLIAMS HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU After starting a nonprofit organization when he was 16-years-old, a WKU freshman has become the first person from Bowling Green to receive the National Caring Award. Kenan Mujkanovic started the Young Visionaries Foundation in order to give back to the Bowling Green community, he said. The foundation has since then worked on various projects in Bowling Green including providing meals to those in need, supplying books to children and cleaning up Greenways trails. On Saturday, Mujkanovic received the National Caring Award –– an award previously won by Pope Francis, Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali and Maya Angelou. In addition to being the first person from Bowling Green to be presented with the award, he is also the seventh Kentuckian and first Bosnian to receive the honor. “I’m just beyond blessed,” Mujkanovic said. “Just thinking back on my journey and everything that I went through, it’s just heartwarming, and I’m just thankful.” The National Caring Award is given to those who have made “a long-term commitment to social improvement” and who have “made an impact that will last their lifetime and beyond,” according to The Caring Institute’s website.

Zak Ahmed, co-founder of The Young Visionaries and Mujkanovic’s friend of 10 years, said he could not express how proud he is of Mujkanovic for winning the National Caring Award. “I’m honestly really, really happy that he did,” Ahmed said. “He literally works so hard; I’ve never seen someone work as hard as he has.” Mujkanovic, the son of two Bosnian immigrants, struggled during his childhood. In the third grade, he tutored his parents to pass the United States’ citizenship test, and he helped his father build the family’s first house by hand. He now strives to make a difference in the lives of children by inspiring them to take action and follow in his footsteps. “Whenever they see my story they get inspired, and whenever they see what I do they get inspired,” Mujkanovic said. “That just encourages them to chase their dreams and make their dreams a reality. That’s the main thing of my foundation –– it’s just to help kids make their dreams come true.” Mujkanovic also wants to show young visionaries they should always take the opportunity to chase their dreams, even if others don’t fully support them. “Whenever you have an idea that’s so big and a dream that’s so big to you, and you try to tell other people, they can’t see what you see,” Mu-

jkanovic said. “Most likely they will not support you, but that’s why you have to show them.” Karen Foley, Mujkanovic’s mentor, has supported the foundation by connecting The Young Visionaries to other organizations and community leaders. “The Young Visionaries Foundation has sort of taken the strategy of not just focusing on one particular cause,” Foley said. “They’re not just focusing on one particular issue. They start from the premise of ‘anyone can make a difference, so let’s go make a difference in as many different things as we can.’” The Young Visionaries’ next event will be an annual turkey giveaway on Thanksgiving, which marks the foundation’s two year anniversary. Mujkanovic will also be publishing a collection of stories from youth in Bowling Green, set to be released in the near future. He hopes that the stories will inspire visionaries from small towns and teach them to chase their dreams. “Young Visionaries really changed my life, and Kenan changed my life,” Ahmed said. “I’ll be forever grateful for that.”

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Bowling Green freshman Kenan Mujkanovic, holds the National Caring Award he received for creating the Young Visionaries Foundation on Saturday, Oct. 22. Out of 10 thousand nominees, Mujkanovic was one of five who won the award which is presented in Mother Teresa’s name. “I owe this city and it’s people a lot for molding me into the person I am today,” Mujkanovic said. “My people gave me this opportunity so I’m not going to take it for granted.” Brendan O’Hern/HERALD

University Senate approves open search resolution BY MONICA KAST HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The University Senate approved an open search resolution regarding the presidential search and the identities of candidates which may be recognized at the Friday, Oct. 28, Board of Regents meeting. During the September University Senate meeting, senators expressed concern after learning the search for the next president may be a closed search. Since that meeting, two senators wrote an open search resolution based on a study done by the American Association of University Professors. “WKU is not a privately held corporation, but a public institution with a responsibility to its campus members and the wider community to ensure that the best possible choice for our next president be made,” the resolution reads. “Such an outcome is only possible if the decision-making process is transparent and open to the greatest possible input from a diverse array of community members, not solely the product of a select group operating exclusively behind closed doors.”

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inform Jones during the first meeting that the notes did not meet the criteria for a crime. After meeting with the officer, Jones decided to speak to someone in a more “powerful” position about what had occurred. As a result, Jones said Provost David Lee made a phone call to the WKUPD. She said after the call, two officers contacted her and arranged to meet with her at her office to discuss the case in further detail. “They were in my office probably for 45 minutes to an hour, which is what I was expecting the first time,” Jones said. Similarly, Serrano said he thought the WKUPD appeared uninterested because he never met with an officer when he called the police to report the incident. Serrano made three calls on the night of Wednesday, Oct. 5, to the police department, he said. His first call was to the emergency line where the officer asked Serrano to call back on the non-emergency line. Casas said Serrano’s case did not constitute as an emergency because no one was in immediate danger. In non-emergency situations, victims are asked to call the department’s non-emergency line. When Serrano called the non-emergency line, he claimed two police officers were nearby and drove after the car. During this second phone call, Serrano did not mention that a passenger in the car had yelled a racial slur. It was not until Serrano made a third call later that night to the police that he mentioned the slur. “That was probably from me still being shook up from everything,” Serrano said. “The second [call] I guess I was able to calm down a bit more and assess the situation and explain it a bit better.” During his third call to the police, Serrano asked the officer if he would receive updates or another call from the police. The officer on the line said he did not think Serrano would receive another call unless progress

Mac McKerral, professor in the School of Journalism and Broadcasting and university senator, raised concerns about information that was not included in the resolution. “I support the resolution although I guess my concern with the resolution is that it focuses almost primarily on AAUP research … which is certainly one element of the closed search issue,” McKerral said. “But I think there are other issues that are equally important that are absent.” Eric Kondratieff, associate professor in the history department and co-author of the resolution, said due to time constraints, they were not able to include more information. He also said he felt it was important the resolution included a request for the campus community to give input. “I think we felt it would be good to have some sort of open meeting in a large space,” Kondratieff said. Along with requesting a venue where feedback could be given on candidates, the resolution “respectfully proposes and strongly requests” the presidential search be an open search, where candidates are known. “In light of these statements and the principles of shared governance they are meant to uphold, the University Senate respectfully proposes

and strongly requests that the presidential search remain open with respect to the finalist candidates,” the resolution reads. The resolution concludes by requesting the three final candidates would be made known, and “the campus community be given the appropriate opportunity to provide its input on the final choice for president.” Jay Todd Richey, student regent and presidential search committee member, said the search committee has been consistently told by Issaacson, Miller a closed search is the best option, so applicants will not risk their current jobs by applying. “It always comes back to ‘this is the highest position on campus,’” Richey said. McKerral raised another concern, and said it was unknown where “this closure is coming from.” “Who’s driving the closure bus?” McKerral asked. Faculty Regent Barbara Burch was not in attendance at the senate meeting because she was ill, according to University Senate Chair Kate Hudepohl. However, the report Burch intended to give at the meeting was posted on the senate website, and addresses the progress of the presi-

had been made or if there were more questions. Casas said this is standard practice for the WKUPD. He said officers usually only contact a victim if they have questions or they have made some sort of progress. Serrano reached out to the police several times after the incident. During one call on Sunday, Oct. 9, Serrano said he was surprised to learn a police report for the incident had not been made. According to the incident report, an officer said during the phone call on Sunday, Oct. 9, that he told Serrano a report about the incident had not been made. In the report, Serrano is said to have refused to file a police report. “Serrano stated he did not want a report now and would be filing a complaint with Chief [Mitch] Walker,” read the report. Casas said he did not know if a complaint from Serrano had been filed. Maddox and Serrano decided to meet with Chief of Police Mitch Walker to discuss their experiences. Both claimed Walker was using his cell phone throughout the meeting and seemed distracted. “He was just very distracted,” Maddox said. Casas said he could understand why the four victims were upset with the progress made on their cases. He said victims normally want their case to be the police department’s number one priority. “They think that we don’t have anything else to do but their case,” Casas said. “Unfortunately, that’s not the case.” Serrano said he plans to release the audio and video tapes from the night of the incident so that the public can view them. He said he wants the public to be able to come to their own conclusions about what happened to him and his girlfriend that night. Jones said despite her experience she does not have any problems with the police. If she was to encounter another incident, she said she would still report it to the WKUPD. “I understand that there are lots

of things happening on our campus and that they may not have the manpower to jump right into certain types of crimes that they may not see as life threatening as others,” Jones said. Jones said she does wish people understood how upsetting being the victim of such a crime can be. “Even though someone didn’t

dential search. “There are a number of applicants applying and it looks like there will be a good pool,” Burch wrote in her report. “Data was incomplete on many of the names, and the search committee provided feedback to the search firm, letting them know which on applicants they wished to have additional information.” Later on in her report, Burch wrote she anticipated approximately 10 applicants “would be invited for an off-campus interview with the search committee.” “Three or four names will ultimately be sent to the Board of Regents as finalists,” Burch wrote. “Then the Board of Regents takes over the process. It is not yet known for certain how the final process will be carried out.” The resolution passed, and Hudepohl said she had intentions to send the resolution to the Board of Regents chair and the Search Committee chair that night.

Reporter Monica Kast can be reached at 270-745-6011 or monica.kast187@ topper.wku.edu. Follow her on Twitter at @monicakastwku. physically assault me, they do not understand the pain that something like this can cause someone,” Jones said.

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Jim Gray discusses tuition at campus visit BY EMMA COLLINS HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU United States Senate Candidate Jim Gray returned to Bowling Green on Friday to speak with WKU students about issues like college tuition and job creation in an on-campus forum. Gray, who visited Bowling Green in September for a meet-and-greet at the Warren County Democratic Headquarters, spoke to a crowd of nearly 100 faculty members and students gathered in the auditorium of Grise Hall. His nearly 50-minute speech focused on a range of topics including the price of college tuition, the creation of new jobs and the future of the coal industry. Gray said throughout his time campaigning around the state, he has heard complaints from both current students and former students about the price of a college education and the large amount of debt students graduate with. He said when he completed college he was able to graduate debtfree and then take risks once he had graduated. He said now students must take risks when they go to college because they are forced to take out multiple loans. “I think it’s a shame that students have to go to school today to get a college education and leave with a mountain of debt,” Gray said. During his speech, he proposed two possible solutions for the large amount of debt. The first would be allowing the refinancing of student loans. The second would be encouraging young people to consider alternatives to college such as an apprenticeship or trade school. Gray focused primarily on the second solution and said he had spoken to a number of employers in the state who described a great need for young people who have the skill sets required for jobs such as manufacturing. Gray said he was also told there are numerous job opportunities for young people who choose to enter such a profession. “The opportunities to make a good living are significant,” Gray said referring to the available jobs in manufacturing. Throughout the rest of his speech, Gray talked about the importance of investments for both the creation of new jobs and the future

Kentucky Senate candidate Jim Gray shakes hands with Bowling Green resident Jack Thomas after Gray’s speech at the meet and greet held on Saturday, Sept. 24 at the Democratic Headquarters in Bowling Green. Thomas says he wants to see change in how the Kentucky senators operate. “ I think it’s time to remove the deadlock and absurd positions that our two current senators have taken on every single issue,” Thomas said. Michelle Hanks/HERALD of the coal industry. He said one of the main components of his campaign platform is the need for the government to make more investments. For Kentucky specifically, these investments would add infrastructure to the state which would allow jobs to be created. He said the new infrastructure and investments would also allow Eastern Kentucky to diversify its economy and move away from the coal mining business. Gray used his stance on the coal industry to compare himself to his opponent and current United States Senator Rand Paul. Gray said he, unlike Paul, supports the Miners Protection Act which is designed to ensure there is enough money to provide for the benefits to which miners are entitled. “We have built our country on the backs of coal miners,” Gray said. “This is the wrong time for us to turn our backs on coal miners.” Student responses to Gray’s presentation differed. Hunter Smith, a freshman from Bowling Green, said overall he enjoyed Gray’s speech. “I think he kind of got a

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bit too wordy and kind of got sidetracked a lot,” Smith said. “If you get through that I think he said a lot of good things.” Smith said he also attended Paul’s speech when the senator visited WKU on Oct. 3. He said Gray seemed more practical than Paul. Another student, junior Anna Williams from Elizabethtown, criticized Gray’s speech because he did not provide any specific plans for change, unlike Paul. “He didn’t give me a clear presentation of what his plan was,” Williams said. Gray, a seventh generation Kentuckian who grew up in Glasgow, first entered politics when he was 19 years old and served as a delegate for the Democratic National Convention. Around that same time, Gray’s father passed away leaving a wife and six children. He also left a small family construction business. Gray said after his father’s death, his mother was encouraged to sell the business; however, she refused. For the next seven years following his father’s death, Gray said the family struggled financially and eventually became “flat broke.”

• Owensboro senior Aaron Brzowski reported Sunday, Oct. 23, that his Moped was stolen from the Alumni Square Garage. It was valued at $700. • Bowling Green freshman Brooke Nicole Farvour was arrested Sunday, Oct. 23, and charged with failure to or improper signal and driving under the influence in the first offense. • Louisville freshman Blake Heckman was arrested Sunday, Oct. 23, and charged with driving under the influence in the first offense and disregarding a traffic control device. • Providence freshman Joseph Singleton was cited on Saturday, Oct. 22, for drug paraphernalia possession. • Paducah sophomore Brian Johnston reported Saturday, Oct. 22, both his rearview mirrors were knocked off his car while it was parked in the Lower Hub Lot. • Wadesville, Indiana, freshman Hunter Garibay reported Friday, Oct. 21, a burglary with a theft from his room. It was valued at $500. • Hawesville sophomore Adam Tindle reported Friday, Oct. 21, a burglary with theft from his room. It was valued at $862. • Trent Blair, director of facilities management, reported Friday, Oct. 21, graffiti in the restroom of Grise Hall. • Huddy freshman Steven Elliot Booth and Vine Grove sophomore Ryan Andrew Ford reported Thursday, Oct. 20, two males entered their room in Keen Hall while they were asleep and took Booth’s wallet. It was valued at $350. • Andrew Ford reported Thursday, Oct. 20, two males entered their room in Keen Hall while they were asleep and took Booth’s wallet. It was valued at $350. • Louisville freshman William Iovenko was cited on Wednesday, Oct. 19, for the possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

With the help of family and friends, Gray’s family was able to recover, and the small family business eventually became an international company called Gray’s Construction. Gray said his experience working in the family business has given him the skills needed to be a politician. One of these skills is the ability to compromise, something of which Gray accused Paul of being incapable. “In a family business you may have disagreements one day but the next you gotta get up and work together,” Gray said. Gray started his current trajectory in politics during 2006 when he won a position on Lexington’s city council. Only four years later, Gray beat out incumbent Jim Newberry in the election for mayor of Lexington and became Lexington’s first openly gay mayor. Gray said when he first became mayor, he was faced with a $30 million budget deficit and a fire and police pension underfunded by nearly $350 million. Since his time in office, he said he has been able to reduce the budget deficit and increase funding for the pension. He has

also improved healthcare for city employees and created new jobs. Gray said since his time as mayor he has made investments for Lexington, and he believes it is this type of government intervention that allows people to succeed. Unlike Paul, Gray said he supports allowing the government to help people achieve success. “Give people a leg up in life,” Gray said. Gray also took time to criticize Paul’s recent campaign for president. Paul campaigned in the primaries for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination. Gray said he, unlike Paul, has no desire to run for president. As a result, Gray said he will be able to focus on Kentucky. “I will be your United States senator,” Gray said. Both candidates will appear on KET on Monday, Oct. 31, at 8 p.m. for a debate.

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LEASE OF THE LAND Bowling Green must pass URLTA

THE ISSUE: After continued years of lobbying efforts, Bowling Green has still not passed the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (ULTRA). OUR STANCE: The city’s continued failure to pass the act is an affront to ensure safe housing for both tenants and landlords alike. Several other smaller cities in Kentucky have passed URLTA, leaving Bowling Green in the dust. To ensure its passage, we have to vote for city commission candidates who support its passage.

ack in 2008, then mayor of Bowling Green Elaine Walker, held forums about URLTA in hopes that the city would consider passing the law. Eight years later, Bowling Green has still not taken a stance in favor of protections for tenants and landlords. Before we start pointing fingers at the city for its unwillingness to protect people from “retaliatory evictions” and leaving them on the streets, we have to take a look at the history of URLTA in the state. URLTA was first enacted by the Supreme Court of Kenucky in 1974, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Originally, the act’s scope was limited to Lexington and Louisville. The two cities fall into a state category known as First Class Cities. Fast forward nine years and the Kentucky State Supreme Court struck down URLTA, but in 1984 they later readopted the act with the provision that “gave jurisdictions the choice to opt in to implementing the legislation.” We can only imagine this kind of turnaround from the court is something Gov. Matt Bevin eagerly awaits every time he snaps a selfie. Currently, the jurisdictions which have URLTA are: Barbourville, Bellevue, Bromley, Covington, Dayton, Florence, Lexington-Fayette County, Georgetown, Louisville-Jefferson County, Ludlow, Melbourne, Newport, Oldham County, Pulaski County, Shelbyville, Silver Grove, Southgate, Taylor Mill and Woodlawn, according to the Legal Aid Network of Kentucky. Even more recently, the city of Morgantown passed URLTA. Not to drag Morgantown, but they voted to allow the legal sale of alcohol in the city just back in September. As the Beech Tree News reported, it marks the first time since 1942 a “community in Butler County will be able to legally sell alcoholic beverages.”

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Morgantown city government struggled more with the legal sale of alcohol, some 80 years after the ratification of the 21st Amendment, than they did with guaranteeing protections for tenants and landlords in the city. Let’s talk briefly about these protections that URLTA offers. URLTA serves to “encourage landlords and tenants to maintain and improve the quality of housing and clarify the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants.” Some of the protections include a standard of habitability which, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, provides tenants legal resources to remedy unsafe and unsanitary housing conditions. URLTA also protects tenants by requiring landlords to give a 48 hour notice before entering a property. On the landlord side of the coin, URLTA provides a uniform and speedy eviction process, it also requires tenants to pay rent on time, maintain their unit and abide by basic health and safety guidelines. Tenants and landlords alike benefit from URLTA provisions, so what’s the hold up? It can be anything from misconceptions about URLTA wanting to completely do away with landlords, as Jay Todd Richey, founder and chair of the WKU Student

Coalition for Renters’ Rights, has said. Or on a local level, it’s opposed by landlords and property managers, as the Daily News reported back in 2013. The passage of URLTA often falls in the hands of Bowling Green city commissioners. However, current commissioners have publicly opposed passage of URLTA, which is troubling because the owner-occupied housing unit rate from 2010 to 2014 for Bowling Green is 38.8 percent meaning a large number of people who live in the city are renters. It’s not only city commissioners who have turned their backs on the city. Mayor Bruce Wilkerson has also been vague when describing flaws within URLTA. Wilkerson told the Daily News earlier this month he found some provisions within URLTA “troubling,” such as having to adopt the act in its entirety as opposed to crafting a local alternative. That’s a good point; why bother ensuring protections for tenants and landlords alike when you can make it look like you’re just trying to do what’s in the best interest of the city? But if that were actually the case, URLTA would have been passed long ago. Even if you look past the legal pro-

tections URLTA offers tenants and landlords, the argument can also boil down to one of ensuring human rights. Article 25 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to “a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing … ” We cannot claim Bowling Green adheres to this standard of living when you have students such as Jasmine Routon, who in February of last year, told a Herald reporter she experienced roach infestations, black mold and strange men inside the apartment she was renting. Luckily, Bowling Green voters have the chance to finally pass URLTA with this year’s city commission race. According to survey responses of city commission candidates from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Andrew Manley, Nate Morguelan and Ryan Fulkerson support the passage of URLTA. Other candidates either did not respond at all or gave non answers. Bowling Green voters should not consider voting for candidates who either do not respond to or give non answers to whether or not the city should ensure the basic human rights of tenant and landlord alike.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Coffee to go extinct, a tale of climate change

I want you to imagine a world without coffee. For many of you, this is your worst nightmare, as you rely on the caffeine-packed, little bean for your daily well-being. Now, I want to tell you that this “end of the world” scenario could become a reality. All thanks to climate change caused by global warming. Although the majority of noticeable symptoms of climate change affect island nations or coastal regions –– you have and will continue to feel its effects. Yes, even here in Bowling Green. Of course, I’m not talking about rising sea level or drastic changes in the daily temperatures. I’m talking about your daily cup of joe or frappuccino. While many still debate whether climate change –– caused by global warming –– is true or if it is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese, the coffee industry and all whom it supports are struggling to stay afloat. No, they aren’t struggling with the rising sea levels many experience.

Instead, they are fighting a losing battle with rising temperatures, increasing incidences of pests and diseases, drought and periods of rapid rainfall. All of these occurrences threaten the livelihoods of more than 125 million people in Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Ethiopia and Indonesia, according to a 2015 study by The Climate Institute. As global temperatures continue to rise, the effects are magnified along the equator. This has major repercussions for The Bean Belt –– the area between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn –– where a majority of coffee is capable of growing. To grow coffee, a precise balance between temperature and precipitation is needed. An ill-timed, minute change of a half a degree and unreliable precipitation will severely affect the aroma, flavor and yield of the coffee bean. Therefore, with increasing global temperatures, the geographical distribution in which coffee can be grown is shrinking … and shrinking fast!

According to The Climate Institute, by the year 2100, with our current rate of temperature increase, mean global temperatures are expected to rise by 4.8 degrees Celsius. This is a death sentence for coffee, as it will likely go extinct. Worse than your pumpkin spice latte missing the whip cream or not getting that extra shot of espresso … remember, the livelihoods of millions of people and the economic stability of countries within The Bean Belt are at stake. Hopefully, at this point, you are wondering what you can do. First and foremost, I want to emphasize that the fate of the coffee industry and the world are not yet set in stone. If we choose to act now, we can begin to mitigate the effects of climate change. Furthermore, do your own research. I would suggest visiting the NASA and United Nations webpages dedicated to climate change as I have provided only a brief summary of some of the issues facing a single population: coffee farmers. I implore you to research where

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you buy your coffee from. In your research, you will learn about carbon-neutral coffee companies and companies who guarantee fair return to small farmers. Give these companies your business. Lastly, I am not naïve enough to believe that we will all go out and buy electric cars. That is an impossible expectation. We are all broke college kids, right? That being said, it is not naïve or inconceivable to increase our use of the free, public transportation system provided by the university, bicycling or even simply walking. Additionally, we need to make our university and city more aware of the need for action. WKU is already making strides in sustainability efforts, spearheaded by the Center for Environmental Education and Sustainability. However, we can and should always strive to do more. Our university is well designed and capable of becoming a beacon for sustainability and renewable energy among public universities in Kentucky, nationally and abroad. Samuel Tegge

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COLLEGEUNIVERSITY HEIGHTS HERALD OCTOBER 25, 2016 > WESTERN KENTUCKY » Ben Sollee: Turn to page B2 to read about the latest event in WKU’s Cultural Enhancement Series, a concert from Kentucky cellist and singer Ben Sollee.

Annual event celebrates local art

BY JULIA ADAMS HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU This weekend the third annual Pop-Up Art & Comic Shop and House Show Extravaganza was hosted at Falcon’s Nest on Chestnut Street. Local artists were featured at Falcon’s Nest and other musicians played afterward at the Former Friends of Young American’s house. Lauren Culbreth, co-owner of Falcon’s Nest said she got the inspiration for the event after a trip to St. Louis. “They had a really cool art scene,” Culbreth said. “I wondered: why relocate when I can cultivate a scene like that in my hometown?” Falcon’s Nest has hosted bands and house shows previously. “All of my friends are super talented and they need a venue to display that,” Culbreth said. Many artists showed up to display a variety of art styles. Homemade jewelry, paintings, prints, baked goods, light fixtures and other mediums were featured. “There’s a lack of opportunity in Bowling Green for young people, and some older people, to showcase their art,” Culbreth said. The third Pop-Up has been unlike the two before it. With more notoriety, the event has grown. “This was the first event where I could get sponsorship from local businesses,” Culbreth said. “Being able to have things donated makes this more of a sustainable project.” Culbreth said the most difficult part of creating the event was the communication with the artists and the vendors. “Artists are artists; we’re kind of last minute procrastinators,” she said. Culbreth looks forward to the growth of the event. “If this keeps growing and getting bigger, we may have to expand to a larger venue,” she said. One of the featured artists was Brittnie Lineberg. She said she’s been interested in art since fifth grade. “I was right around 10,” Lineberg said. “This dude and I would draw Bugs Bunny for people, then I moved to horses. It was the only time I made money for my art.” Lineberg works with a variety of media to create her pieces. “I’ve been trying to get more into mixed media lately: glitter, confetti,”

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Alumni Ashyya Robinson of Zeta Phi Beta performs their step routine for a large audience on Oct. 21, 2016 in Van Meter Hall. Zeta Phi Beta won first place out of the sororities. Brendan O’Hern/HERALD

step back up National Pan-Hellenic Council brings stepshow back to Homecoming

BY EMMA AUSTIN HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU The National Pan-Hellenic Council Homecoming Stepshow returned to WKU Friday night in a performance filling Van Meter Auditorium with the sound of stomps, claps, laughter, chants and cheers. Audience members filled the auditorium, lining the seats from wall to wall. The show sold out completely, NPHC president DJ McCormick said. The show included nine performances by eight of WKU’s NPHC sororities and fraternities and Nfinity, a dance team based in Bowling Green. The night’s host Tez greeted the audience to the auditorium and began with a roll call, recognizing each competing organization and their alumni in the audience. The show opened with Omega Psi Phi fraternity, whose performance brought a response of laughter and loud cheers from the audience. Zeta Phi Beta sorority performed next in a more serious piece touching on current issues involving gun violence. Props onstage included signs reading “stop the violence” and “my life matters.” Throughout the performance, Zeta

Phi Beta dancers shouted out names of shooting victims as they danced, bringing relevance to the issue. Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity ended the show with the winning performance among male competitors; Zeta Phi Beta placed first in women. Zeta Phi Beta alumnae Ashiya Robinson said she felt relieved after performing with her sisters. “I felt like we did a really good job,” Johnson said. “We left our heart on the stage.” Lexington senior and Zeta Phi Beta member Kierra Muhammad said her team has been working hard, practicing since July. “We’re thought of as leaders on this campus,” Muhammad said. “People want to see what we have to offer.” After the performances, two scholarships were presented to students Ar’Meishia Burrow and Bryan Anders in recognition of outstanding service and academic success. “I thought it was a really good performance,” Radcliffe senior Crystal Belcher said. “I think everybody tried and did the best they can, which is awesome. It was actually fun to see all the unity and everybody coming together.” Belcher, also a member of Zeta Phi

Beta, said she thought her sisters’ win was well-deserved. “They did a good job,” Belcher said. “The topic was good. Just to see how everything came together was awesome.” Though the show hasn’t happened in the past few years, McCormick said he’s hoping it will become a continuous annual event. “Honestly, the stepshow is really to get all nine organizations from NPHC together to where we can all kind of have a unity moment, all coming together to see everybody’s show, kind of to get the black community to come together.” The show is one of NPHC’s biggest fundraising events, McCormick said. “It’s really key that all members from different organizations come out and support their fraternity brothers and sorority sisters,” McCormick said. “I think it went well. I’m disappointed the AKAs didn’t get to perform, but overall, I think everyone did exceptionally well. It was a good turnout.”

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Disability basketball game raises awareness BY MEGAN COLE HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU On Thursday evening, in honor of Disability Awareness month, the WKU Student Accessibility Center, the National Wheelcats and WKU Intramurals teamed up to host the Annual Wheelchair Basketbrawl Challenge. Nashville wheelchair basketball teams traveled to WKU for a scrimmage. Wheels rolled across the floor as basketballs flew through the air for perfect shots. “I think that this brings awareness that, while people may play differently, they aren’t lacking any form of ability,” Preston Center’s assistant director, Candice Douglas, said. “It highlights our need to celebrate Disability Awareness.” Playing for a wheelchair basketball team in Nashville for close to 10 years, Matt Davis, WKU professor and

Student Accessibility Resource Center coordinator, said he was able to meet many people with various disabilities. “We don’t have a wheelchair basketball program in the community and that is something that I would like to see,” Davis said. Getting ready for the game, Davis laughed while transferring into his basketball wheelchair. “It’s been awhile since I’ve played so don’t laugh too hard if I miss,” Davis said. “It’s like riding a bicycle though, once you learn you never forget.” Jeff Hall, program director of the Music City team, says he has been a part of the program for 11 years. Hall said he got into playing during his freshman year at UNC Charlotte 16 years ago when he went to a practice one day. He has played ever since. “It’s been amazing over the years seeing the exposure that adaptive sports can have not only to the dis-

abled community but the sports community as a whole,” Hall said. Hall said adaptive sports tend to broaden your horizons and gives you a different lens to view competitive sports from. “It’s something that affects each and every one of us and it’s something we can all learn a great deal from,” Hall said. “It’s definitely something we’re all passionate about.” Pulling a sweatshirt over his head, he revealed his jersey reading “Music City” across the front as he prepared to compete in the games Thursday. “In the post 9/11 world, we’ve definitely seen an influx of veterans come into the program,” Hall said. “They were very physically active before their physical life was altered and you can see that as they begin to play again, life is brought back into them through adaptive sports. It lets them know that life is different, but life goes on.”

The metal bleachers spilled over with students coming to see the games, including sophomore Dana Jorgensen. “It’s definitely different but it’s also really exciting,” Jorgensen said. Jorgensen gestured to the court as an offensive player broke away from a defensive block and banked a perfect shot and said she believes the program is a really good thing. “Everyone deserves a chance to play, and I think this is what this is,” Jorgensen said. “It’s a chance for them to play and for us to celebrate what they have to offer.” “Our main goal and purpose with adaptive sports is to highlight and focus on the person and their abilities, not their disabilities,” Davis said.

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Kentucky cellist performs, releases new record BY EMMA AUSTIN HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU Kentucky cellist and singer Ben Sollee released his new record, “Infowars,” on Friday after performing at Van Meter Auditorium Thursday evening as a part of WKU’s Cultural Enhancement Series. Sollee opened his set with “Learn To Listen,” joined by percussionist and fellow Kentuckian Jordon Ellis. Sollee spoke to the audience often during his performance, sharing his story beginning when he first played the cello at age 9. He would switch back and forth from playing classical music at school and playing blues and “fiddle tunes” at home with his family. He played an excerpt from a wellknown Bach cello suite, demonstrating the classical style, and asked the audience if they recognized it. “They play it in all the cleaning commercials,” Sollee joked. He also played and sang a portion of “Stand By Me,” one of the songs he grew up playing alongside his dad, a guitarist. Sollee’s set was made up of several original songs, including “Whole Lot to Give,” “Prettiest Tree on the Mountain,” “DIY” and more. He also played “The Long Lavender Line” and “Cajun Navy,” both songs from his new record. “Another man with an iPhone walks off a cliff, says he’s chasing creatures, got to try to catch them all,” Sollee sang in “The Long Lavender Line.” “Cajun Navy” is a song dedicated to those who risk their lives in hurricane rescue and relief efforts, with lyrics saying, “when the storm is ragin’ trust in a Cajun, they won’t let you down.” “Infowars” was a collaboration between Sollee and Ellis. The album was conceived, recorded and released all within a six-week time frame, Sollee said. Song lyrics touch on recent developments including Pokémon Go and Louisiana flooding. “It’s really different,” Sollee said. “It incorporates a lot of field recording and a lot of use of electronics and sampling.”

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she said. “My heart will always be with ink and watercolor.” Lineberg describes her art style as “wishy-washy.” “I enjoy small details,” she said. “I enjoy not completing anything. I like to not cry onto my art.” When Lineberg was first starting high school, her biggest artistic influence was Alex Pardee, an artist inspired by old cartoons, according to his website. “Right now, I’m influenced by gen-

Cellist Ben Sollee performs as part of the Cultural Enhancement Series on Thursday, Oct. 20, at Van Meter Hall. Brendan O’Hern/ HERALD

Sollee and Ellis were later joined onstage by banjoist Bennett Sullivan and guitarist Simon Meurer for a performance by their string band, a new project Sollee said had rehearsed beforehand for only two days. “We’re going to try it because we trust you, Hilltoppers,” Sollee told the audience. “We know you’re eclectic, because, well, we walked around campus and you have buildings from every architectural period.” Sollee stayed after his performance for a meet-and-greet with audience members, autographing CDs and taking photos with new and old fans. Louisville sophomore Corinne Warlick and Somerset sophomore Lincoln Curry both said they saw Sollee play when they went to the Governor’s Scholar Program at Bellarmine Uni-

versity. “I love it,” Warlick said. “It’s so different. He just pulls stuff out of nowhere.” Curry said he’s been listening to Sollee on Spotify since he first heard his music two years ago at GSP. “I think his story’s just so cool,” Curry said. “Just how he started out on a bike, and biked across the country with his cello.” Both Warlick and Curry said their favorite song Sollee performed Thursday was “Prettiest Tree On the Mountain,” a song Sollee said was inspired by a tree he saw that was the exact color of a girl’s hair after a failed romance. Sollee, known for his political activism, has spoken to shed light on issues such as mountain top removal and sustainability, according to his website. “I think music is a really great tech-

nology for connecting people in a time when it’s really easy for people to live in their own niches,” Sollee said. “And sometimes that means expressing views in songs that would be hard to express in conversation.” When he began his career, Sollee had a lot of politics in his music. “Over time, I learned that it was a little bit more impactful to talk about more personal human things, rather than politics,” Sollee said. “Because that’s kind of surface-y stuff when you really think about it, and there’s basic lives being lived that need to be addressed.”

itals,” she said. “I’m trying to get into embroidery though.” Common themes that show up in Lineberg’s work include “faces, beer, cigarettes and tears,” she said. As far as why people create art, Lineberg believes “everyone has their own motives.” Another artist featured at the PopUp was Drew Guy, who described himself as an illumination artist, working with lighting. “I’ve been interested in art since I was two years old,” Guy said. “I got shocked by a Christmas tree and I’ve

been obsessed with electricity since.” Right now, Guy is interested in everything spooky and scary. The front of the Falcon’s Nest showcased one of Guy’s pieces, a huge, cut-out cat with blood dripping from its mouth. “The cat was inspired by 1941 German Halloween decor,” Guy said. Guy said his style is inspired by minimalism, goth style and sex. “Sexual things are going to be very prominent,” he said. In the future, Guy hopes to expand to different kinds of media. “I’m interested in working on an-

imations, motors and more moving parts,” he said. “It was so cool to have friends to work on this,” Guy said. “Seeing these crazy, hair-brained ideas come to life has been so gratifying.” “Don’t let time or money hold you back,” Guy said as advice to young artists. “If you want something, make it work.”

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The touchdown was set up by a 44yard punt return from junior wide receiver Nacarius Fant who took the ball down to the ODU 16-yard line. Fant had another big return toward the end of the second quarter when he took a kickoff 57 yards to the ODU 25-yard line after faking a handoff to fellow return man redshirt junior Kylen Towner. Fant suffered an ankle injury on the play. Brohm said it would be too early to tell the extent of the injury. “It didn’t look too good after the game,” Brohm said. “Obviously we’d love to get him back. He’s tremendous on special teams and he’s probably the football player with the best knowledge of anybody.” The momentum was in WKU’s favor from the start. The Toppers scored a touchdown on their first five drives of the game while ODU brought out the punt team after its first five possessions. A pair of 53-yard touchdown passes from ODU quarterback David Washington were the Monarchs’ only

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off against the Road Runners of the University of Texas San Antonio. Hudson knew the team would have their hands full with UTSA as they played them in the C-USA championship last year. However, WKU continued its winning streak, taking down the Runners in four sets. “I am just really proud of our kids’

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scoring plays of the first half, as they headed into the locker room trailing by a score of 52-14. WKU out-gained ODU 459 to 200 in total yards after one half of play, and 624 to 330 for the game. “I for sure thought we were locked in,” Brohm said. “I think all of our guys want to do well, like to be motivated and want to find a way to improve … We want to try to challenge ourselves every week to raise our level. Old Dominion was 4-2 overall and we had to win the game.” White followed up the 44-43 shootout in Murfreesboro with a 378yard, four-touchdown performance on 28 of 32 passing. “I think in the first half, his play was extremely good,” Brohm said. “I think he played very well and was into it.” White was able to spread the ball around to his receivers all evening long. Senior wide receiver Nicholas Norris caught six of his passes, gaining 90 yards and scoring once in the process. Norris wasn’t the only one to get in on the offensive downpour. Wales gained 157 yards on just 15 rushes

and had two touchdowns. “I showed a lot of stuff that I normally don’t do,” Wales said. “At this point I’m just trying to do whatever it takes to win.” The scoring slowed down in the second half for the Toppers, and ODU’s offense came out with a nineplay, 77-yard drive capped off by an eight-yard touchdown run. On the first WKU possession, White’s screen pass to Taylor was picked off and returned to the Topper six-yard line. The Monarchs settled for a field goal three plays later, making the score 52-24 halfway through the third quarter. The next time WKU got the ball, a brawl broke out between both teams and a majority of the WKU sideline. ODU sophomore defensive back Jamshyer McUmber was ejected as a result of the skirmish, and every player from both teams received offsetting unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. “It’s a conference game and both teams are going for a conference championship,” Wales said. “Tempers got flared and it’s just part of football.”

On Monday, C-USA announced that Wales and ODU’s Christian Bynum would each be suspended for the first half of their team’s next games. The conference also reprimanded four other players including WKU’s Towner and Norris. Freshman running back Marquez Trigg’s one-yard touchdown run was the final score of the game with 12:39 left in the fourth quarter. With the win, WKU improves its record to 5-3 and is in total control of its own destiny moving forward. “We always want to win a conference championship, and now we know that we’re in the driver’s seat,” Wales said. “We’re in control of our own destiny and we know we just have to win so we go out there each and every day and go hard.” The Toppers will continue conference play on Saturday when they travel to Florida Atlantic University. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. in Boca Raton, Florida.

The Lady Tops finally found a breakthrough at the 87:09 mark of the match, as Gorham netted her third goal of the season off a corner kick. Played in by senior defender Dee Dee Green, the ball rolled around the box and before the Roadrunners were able to clear it out, the redshirt sophomore found enough space in the lower right corner to bury her shot. “We had a lot of corners, so I thought we were bound to finish on one,” Gorham stated on her goal. “One of our goals is finishing on set pieces, so finally someone got a foot on it and we were able to score.” Less than a minute later, Dunn found the back of net to give the Lady

Tops the two-goal lead. Sophomore forward Hannah Cady had the ball and found the senior streaking up the field and connected with Dunn on a long pass. The senior, setup with a one-onone breakaway opportunity, made the most of it and sent a shot past the goalkeeper into the left corner to seal the 2-0 win for WKU. “It feels great to have gotten the win again,” Dunn noted. “Hannah Cady chased down the ball and was able to cross it and I was there waiting for it.” It came down to the wire, but the Lady Tops, like they have done throughout the course of the season, were able to find a way to win.

“That’s what we’ve been talking about; good team s find a way to win,” Neidell added. “I think tonight [Thursday], we just found a way to win. I turned to my assistants with eight minutes left and I said, ‘I know there’s a goal in this game in regulation and I hope it’s ours.’ It was just a hard fought game.” WKU will close out its regular-season with a meeting with Old Dominion University on Friday at the WKU Soccer Complex. The match is scheduled to kickoff at 6 p.m.

toughness today,” Hudson said according to a WKU Sports press release. “To play a team like UTSA on the back end of this road trip and drop game one and yet find a way to win says a lot about our players.” Anderson finished the match with career highs offensively. She threw down 20 kills on a .633 hitting percentage while also adding four blocks. Cavanaugh put in 12 kills of her own accompanied by a career-high

seven digs in the match. Lucas put together her ninth double-double of the season with 39 assists and 18 digs. She also added six kills and four blocks. O’Connell matched her season-high dig performance with 23 in the win. Engle added 11 and senior defensive specialist Kaelin Grimes had seven of her own. “I thought our senior defensive players, Georgia [O’Connell] and Kaelin [Grimes], were terrific today

in leading us and playing high-level defensive,” Hudson said. The Lady Tops will be back in action this Friday at 5 p.m. as they will travel to Huntington, West Virginia, to take on the Thundering Herd of Marshall University.

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

Reporter Matthew Stewart can be reached at 270-745-6281 and matthew.stewart015@topper.wku.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @MES_ WKU22.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016 > WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY » Volleyball: Senior defensive specialist Georgia O’Connell and sophomore middle hitter Rachel Anderson were named C-USA Players of the Week on Monday.

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Lady Tops back in the top 25 Tops roll to 59-24 victory over ODU BYMATTHEW STEWART

HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The road trip the Lady Toppers took to Texas this weekend seemed to be a turning point in the season for the team as WKU is back in the AVCA top 25 as a result of the games, coming in at 23rd. On Friday, Head Coach Travis Hudson won his 550th career match with the WKU sweep of the University of Texas El Paso. With the win the Lady Tops improved to 21-2 on the season and 8-0 in Conference USA play. “I’m extremely proud of the way our kids played tonight against a tough UTEP squad,” Hudson said according to a WKU Sports press release. “We withstood a first-set challenge and played much better as the match wore on.” All-American junior setter Jessica Lucas nearly put together a triple double performance in the win over the Miners. Lucas finished with 30 assists, nine kills and nine digs. She also posted a team-high .571 hitting percentage. Lucas finished the evening with 30 assists, nine kills, nine digs, three block assists and a team-leading .571 hitting percentage. Offensively, All-American junior outside hitter Alyssa Cavanaugh put up a match leading 12 kills while sophomore middle hitter Rachel Anderson had 10 to her name. This was the 21st double-digit kill performance for Cavanaugh this year and the 15th for Anderson. Junior outside hitter Sydney Engle added six kills of her own to go along with three service aces and four blocks. Senior defensive specialist Georgia O’Connell held down the WKU defense with 10 digs in the match, which marked her 19th double-digit dig match of the year. On Sunday, the Lady Tops faced

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Junior wide receiver Nacarius Fant (1) runs down field during WKU’s 59-24 win over ODU on Saturday, Oct. 22 in Smith Stadium. Fant contributed 31 yards on three catches. Brendan O’Hern/HERALD

BY EVAN HEICHELBECH HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU With another pivotal conference matchup on its plate after travelling to Middle Tennessee State University the week prior, the WKU football team took care of business with a 5924 homecoming victory over Old Dominion University on Saturday. “Without question, it was a great night for our football team,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said. “Our guys really stepped up, came ready to play and came out in the first half and executed at a high level at all facets of the game.”

The win puts the Hilltoppers in a tie for first place in the Conference USA East division with Florida International University. Things were never realistically in reach for the Monarchs, as the WKU point barrage started immediately after the opening kick. The Toppers’ opening drive lasted all of one minute and 10 seconds as redshirt senior running back Anthony “Ace” Wales took a handoff on the third play of the game 44 yards for a touchdown. WKU got the ball back just one minute and 32 seconds later after an Old Dominion three-and-out, and redshirt junior quarterback Mike

White found senior wide receiver Taywan Taylor in the end zone for the first of his three receiving touchdowns of the night. Taylor finished the game with 10 catches for 123 yards to go with his three scores. “Coach Brohm preaches to us before the game to come out locked in, focused and with great energy,” Taylor said. “We just want to come out and strike first and strike early.” Three ODU three-and-outs and a little more than six minutes of game time later, Taylor caught a 14-yard strike from White to make the score 28-0, advantage Toppers.

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Lady Tops find a way to win against UTSA BY TYLER MANSFIELD

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Senior midfielder Caitlin Hesse (6) goes up to head the ball against UAB midfielder Paige Merry (16) during WKU’s 2-0 win Saturday, Oct. 9, at the WKU Soccer Complex. Matt Lunsford/HERALD

After an uncharacteristic night for a college soccer match, the WKU women’s soccer team overcame many obstacles and found a way to post a 2-0 win against the University of Texas at San Antonio last Thursday night. Thursday’s match, which was originally scheduled to take place at the WKU Soccer Complex, was moved to Warren Central High School in Bowling Green as there was a power outage at the facility. Not only was the lighting a problem, but the weather wasn’t the best as it was rainy and windy. “Well, we talked about staying focused,” Head Coach Jason Neidell said following the conclusion of the match at Joe Hood Field. “Obviously, I think the conditions were a little bit tough. We had to change our game plan a little bit –– a big part of our adjustment was UTSA.” The Roadrunners battled until the end with the Lady Toppers (12-5-0 overall, 7-2-0 Conference USA) as both sides participated in a scoreless draw over the first 87 minutes. In the match, Texas-San Antonio played tenacious defense and its freshman goalkeeper Hannah Weisse saved four WKU shots while playing the full 90 minutes.

“I think they’re a really good team,” Neidell said of UTSA. “I feel like they’re one of the better teams we’ve played in the conference. They were athletic, they knocked the ball around well and they gave us all we could handle.” WKU maintained its hold atop the C-USA standings with the victory, which marked the club’s 10th shutout of the year. The Lady Tops outshout the Roadrunners 12-7 on the evening including a 6-4 advantage in shots on goal. The unit was also awarded 13 corner kicks compared to UTSA’s two. Redshirt sophomore midfielder Sarah Gorham and senior forward Iris Dunn each recorded three shots each to lead all players while senior defender Olivia Fitzgerald attempted a pair. Junior goalkeeper Allison Leone earned her ninth solo shutout with four saves while playing in between the posts the entire 90 minutes. Neither team was able to even record a shot on goal until the Roadrunners’ senior defender Alexis Alaniz did so in the 25th minute. Alaniz challenged Leone with a shot from inside the box, but the junior saved it. Over the next eight minutes, the net protector saved two more from Alaniz and sophomore

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