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Director of journalism school to step down

BY JACOB DICK

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The director of the School of Journalism and Broadcasting announced at a special-called faculty meeting Wednesday afternoon, he would be stepping down as of June 30, 2017 Loup Langton, who has been at WKU since 2011, said he was leaving the position with two years left in his appointment because he believed it would be the best opportunity for him to continue to contribute to the school.

“I didn’t want to start something I couldn’t finish,” Langton said. “I think, instead, it’s time for someone to come in with a fresh vision to come in and be able to see it through.”

Langton said he will remain at WKU after next June as a faculty member. He said the courses he will teach have to be determined based on what the school needs and the skills he can offer, but he is interested in focusing on ideas of the future of journalism, collaboration in media and international partnership.

He also said he was interested in helping organize a small graduate program within the SJ&B. Langton came to WKU from the University of Miami through an external faculty search for the position of director. He was previously the director of photography for El Universo, one of the largest newspapers in Ecuador, and Copley Chicago Newspapers before becoming the program director of visual journalism at UM. He also helped create Pictures of the Year International-Latin America, one of the largest photojournalism contests in South America.

Aside from allowing him to take a different role in contributing to the vision of the SJ&B, Langton also hopes to be able to work on other projects he was unable to due to his obligations as director.

“I came here having worked on several major projects, and still have worked on them but not to the extent I would have like to,” Langton said. “This allows me to work on things on an international scale ... to do the things I would like to.”

Jacob Dick can be reached at 270745-6011 and jacob.dick@wku.edu.

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Cleveland sophomore Raivon Bledsoe, left, and Sacramento, Calif., junior Shaylin-Kaliea Martin look at the Fusion interactive exhibit Wednesday in Centennial Mall. “I enjoyed this piece for the culture that was displayed,” Martin said. Ebony Cox/HERALD

‘AS AMERICAN AS...’

Photo exhibit encourages diversity, identity discussion

BY MONICA KAST HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU

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photo exhibition encouraging students to discuss American diversity and identity was featured on campus Wednesday.

The exhibition, called “As American As,” displayed photos of people who live in America of different genders, ethnicities and ages. Each photo was nearly 8 feet tall and ranging from 24 to 28 feet wide, according to Scottie Ellis, a community liaison for Fusion. Fusion, a television channel and digital journalism website, put on the exhibition.

“They depict different images of diversity, ranging from race, cul-

tures, sexual identity, gender identity, women’s rights,” Ellis said. “For Fusion, diversity includes a lot more than just the color of your skin. So it was really important for us to encompass all of those different factors.”

Sam Ford, vice president of innovation and engagement at Fusion and an adjunct professor in the department of history, said the exhibition took phrases like “As American as apple pie” or “As American as baseball,” and looked at broadening that to “wider images of the United States.”

The photographs were taken by Gillian Laub around the New York area. Ellis said the subjects of the

photos “are not models, which is pretty cool.”

The photos were displayed in Centennial Mall, and students were encouraged to take a picture next to the one that stood out to them the most, and post it on social media. After posting the picture with the hashtag #AsAmericanAs students could get a t-shirt or water bottle from Fusion representatives.

Louisville freshman Erin Elliot visited the exhibit with friends on Wednesday. Elliot said they were walking through campus and saw the display and t-shirts, and stopped to look at them. For Elliott, the image that resonated the most was that of a

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Candidates debate local, state issues at public forum

BY EMMA COLLINS HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU Candidates for positions in both the local and state government met on Tuesday night at La Gala in downtown Bowling Green for a public debate.

The “Debate in the District” was hosted by the Bowling Green Daily News and the Downtown Redevelopment Authority. It included the two candidates for the Kentucky House of Representatives, the two candidates for mayor and 11 candidates for city commissioner.

The two candidates who are competing to represent the 20th district in the House of Representatives are current Bowling Green city commissioner Melinda Hill and Representative Jody Richards. Hill and Richards were the first candidates to take the stage, and their debate focused primarily on the state’s most pressing

issues; the pension system for state workers.

Both Hill and Richards agreed the underfunded pension system is the state’s biggest problem at the moment. Hill said the pension system is underfunded by nearly $41 billion and is one of the worst pension systems in the nation.

The pension system was one of the main focuses during the 2016 legislative system, and Gov. Matt Bevin chose to make controversial cuts to a wide range of programs including postsecondary education in order to aid the pension system.

Hill said Kentucky should be “ashamed” about the state of the pension system. She said it was wrong to continue to fund the state legislators’ pension while neglecting the pension program for state employees and teachers.

“Our state employees deserve

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Speaker Pro Tempore of the Kentucky House of Representatives Jody Richards, right, answers a question during his debate with Bowling Green City Commissioner Melinda Hill, left, who is running against him, at the ‘Debate in the District’ hosted by the Bowling Green Daily News on Tuesday at La Gala. Michelle Hanks/HERALD

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Candidates for associate provost anounced

BY MONICA KAST

HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU The Office of Research and Creative Activity hosted open forums this week after announcing the candidates for the position of associate provost of research and creative activity this week from an internal university search.

The candidates for the position are Cheryl Davis, professor in the department of biology and interim associate provost of research and creative activity, Joel Turner, associate professor in the department of political science and Blair Thompson, associate professor in the department of communication.

The candidates each held an open forum, where they were able to give presentations and answer questions from faculty.

Davis gave her presentation on Monday, where she discussed her time as interim associate provost and what she would continue to do if appointed to the position.

Davis said it was her belief the role of the associate provost is to work toward increasing internal and external support for research, and maintaining and enforcing standards for ethics within research.

“The other thing that folks in my office felt very strongly about was that they wanted to do a better job of promoting success and letting peo-

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Continued from Front was that of a gay couple.

“As part of the LGBTQ community, it’s good to see that represented in the media,” Elliott said. “That way it’s normalized and there’s less backlash.”

Louisville freshman Samra Ardic stopped at the display with Elliott.

For her, the most powerful image was one of a shirtless woman who had a tattoo saying “My Body My Rights.”

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what has been promised to them,” Hill said. “It’s the obligation of the state legislature to make sure they receive what they were promised.”

Hill suggested reexamining and possibly changing the pension system. In the meantime, she said legislators need to stop making the problem worse.

“Kentucky cannot move forward until we address this pension issue,” Hill said.

Richards, who has been a representative since 1976, agreed with Hill regarding the pension problem; however, he blamed the problem on a lack of diversified investments. He said the legislature was making its required contribution to the pension system and had given $1.2 billion to the fund in 2016.

To combat the problem, Richards said the general assembly would need to increase transparency and reform the system while continuing to make the required contribution.

Both candidates discussed how they would prioritize spending in the state’s budget and what cuts they

ple know what kinds of activities were going on on campus,” Davis said.

Davis said in her role as interim associate provost, they’ve begun sending out emails and press releases and posting on social media about awards and successes on campus.

Additionally, Davis said she thought it was important that people on campus were made aware of resources in the Office of Research and Creativity.

“I realized that one important thing that was missing is so many people on this campus don’t even realize the resources that are available in the Office of Research and Creativity,” Davis said. “They just are not aware.”

Turner presented on Tuesday and said that he focused on his priorities for the Office of Research and Creative Activity as well as personal attributes that would benefit him if selected.

Turner said that he was part of the group that started the Social Science Research Center, and has been the director of the center since 2013. He said he felt the experience had given him perspective on research at the university level.

“I’ve worked independently, I’ve worked with colleagues here, colleagues at other universities, I’ve worked with students here,” Turner said. “I understand the value of collaboration, particularly across disciplines, which is where I think the re-

search field in general is going.”

Turner said that he envisions the role of associate provost as one of a facilitator, working to find out what faculty needs are and trying to meet those needs.

“The way I would envision it is to be sort of a facilitator or a catalyst to help faculty get research done,” Turner said. “The way I view the office is that I would like to find out what faculty need, what their needs are and what students needs are in terms of quality research. And if I can facilitate those needs in any way, do that.”

Turner said that as a faculty member himself, he’s aware of what some of the difficulties and needs are in research, and would use that if selected.

Thompson will present on Thursday, and said that he will focus on his vision for the Office of Research and Creative Activity, as well as the attributes he has that will help fulfill that vision. Thompson said that through his research, he has worked with the Office of Research and Creative Activity in the past.

“I think that I have understanding of the different types of things that the office offers, the different types of things that the faculty apply for, and the different programs that are available,” Thompson said.

Thompson said that his vision for the Office of Research and Creative

Activity includes focus on “communication, collaboration and learning.”

He said that he felt his background in communication would allow him to be able to provide consistent communication and work closely with each department to see what their needs were for research and creative activity.

“It’s an exciting opportunity, because you’re working more at a macro level,” Thompson said. “Not just your own, individual things, now you’re really getting the picture whole and how people across campus can increase funding and potential for what they can do in research and creative activity.”

Like Davis, Thompson said telling others about research and creative activity on campus is important.

“Part of this job, in some aspects, you are a cheerleader for the faculty and their research,” Thompson said.

“In development … part of that is letting others know that they are in key positions and stakeholders what it is faculty are doing with their research.”

Provost David Lee and a search committee will recommend a final candidate to the Board of Regents, who will make the final appointment, according to Lee.

Ardic said it was good to see representation of “loving your own body.”

“Empowering women on a college campus is so important,” Ardic said.

The As American As exhibition has been traveling around the country to different college campuses, according to Ford. Ellis said she felt the timing of the exhibition was “perfect,” given the current election and discussions about diversity occurring in the U.S. “This is the perfect time right now, where you see so much division nationwide, and because of just nation-

al conversations,” Ellis said. “It’s a good opportunity to just talk to people who are the next leaders in this world and really take advantage of that opportunity and have a conversation with them about something that’s very important to the makeup of the U.S.” Nick Gilyard, a community liaison for Fusion, said Fusion representatives were at the exhibit as a “sounding board about diversity” to encourage conversations about diversity and what Americans look like in 2016.

“When you close your eyes and think of ‘what is an American,’ everyone’s going to come up with a different image, and I think part of our installation is saying that’s okay,” Gilyard said. “It should be different, because we shouldn’t all be trying to fit one archetype of what it means to be an American.”

would suggest. Hill said the state spent too much money and needed to make cuts similar to the ones Bevin suggested earlier this year. She defended Bevin’s across the board budget cuts as “decisions that had to be made.”

Richards disagreed with Hill and said the cuts to the universities’ budgets were unnecessary. He said it is important to spend money wisely and aid the pension system; however, he said across the board cuts that include postsecondary education were not a good choice.

After the debate between Richards and Hill, the two candidates for mayor of Bowling Green were invited to the stage to speak briefly about their platforms.

Don Langley, a write-in candidate, spoke about his support for the Fairness Ordinance. The ordinance, also called the Fairness Amendment, would make it illegal for people to be denied a job, housing or other public accommodations because of their gender identity or sexual orientation.

If elected, he promised to vote on the Fairness Ordinance within his first 90 days in office.

Langley also emphasized his sup-

port of transparency in government.

He criticized his opponent, current Bowling Green mayor Bruce Wilkerson, for holding secret meetings during his time in office.

“If you want a full-time mayor instead of a part-time mayor that we so desperately need, write in Don Langley on election day,” Langley said.

During his allotted two minutes, incumbent Wilkerson spoke about the five years he has served as Bowling Green’s mayor. He described the work he has done with the help of the city commission to increase jobs and how he has done his best to prevent tax increases and reduce debt.

“We’ve been able to grow our budget and still provide those services without raising taxes,” Wilkerson.

The last part of the debate featured 11 out of the 12 candidates for the four open city commissioner positions. Incumbent Joe Denning, who has served as city commissioner for 22 years, did not attend the debate.

All 11 participants were given the opportunity to answer each question. Nearly all of them spoke about their support for expanding transportation services in the city including adding new bus routes.

The candidates were more divided when asked about their stance on the Fairness Ordinance. Only five of the 11 candidates said they supported passing the ordinance. Those candidates included Ryan Gene Fulkerson, Andrew Manley, Jennifer Morlan, Nathan Morguelan and Brian ‘Slim’ Nash.

“You either support legal discrimination or bigotry or you don’t,” Fulkerson said. “I’m glad to be against it.”

The candidates were also divided when asked if they supported the Uniform Residential Landlord Tenant Act. URLTA was designed to improve the relationship between landlords and their tenants. It clearly defines the rights for both parties.

Only Fulkerson, Morlan, Manley and Morguelan supported URLTA. The other candidates for city commissioner include Mark Bradford, incumbent Sue Parrigan, Derek Lee Reeder, Dan Rudloff and Matt Stephens.

Correction

In the story “Racial crime victims disappointed with WKUPD” in the Tuesday, Oct. 25, edition, the Herald reported Michelle Jones found letters in her office in September. The letters were actually found in the last week of August and reported near the first of September. Pearce-Ford Tower was also incorrectly called Pierce Ford Tower. The Herald regrets the error and encourages readers to report errors in an effort to remain accurate and responsible.

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Students collect aid for hurricane victims

BY NATALIE PERRY HERALD. NEWS@WKU.EDU In the wake of the Category 5 hurricane that devastated much of the U.S. southeastern coast and Caribbean islands, WKU student organizations are collecting donations for Hurricane Matthew victims.

The Big Red Chapter of National Residence Hall Honorary, WKU Student Activities and the WKU Track and Field team are collecting donations to help those affected by Hurricane Matthew.

Due to the intense flooding and winds from the hurricane, many people have been left homeless.

WKU student organizations saw this as a chance to help.

Kalyn Johnson, associate director of philanthropy for the NRHH, said in an email the donations are going directly to the families affected.

“We saw this as an opportunity for our members to serve a community that is hundreds of miles away,” Johnson said.

Students will be able to donate var-

ious items including: bottled water, cleaning supplies, toiletries, towels, wash rags, trash bags, laundry detergent, paper and plastic cups, plates, silverware and non-perishable food items.

Student Activities office worker Collin Ray said he, along with his co-workers, had a heart to help those in need. The idea to take up donations for the hurricane victims came to Ray when he was traveling back from his hometown one afternoon.

“I realized that in times of disaster, most of the things that I always have are things others have to worry about,” Ray said.

Ray said this donation drive will give WKU students and organizations a chance to showcase their caring nature. Students will have a chance to earn community service hours through Student Activities depending on the quality and quantity of the items they donate.

NRHH and Student Activities will be collecting donations until Friday.

The Minton Hall and Pearce Ford Tower lobbies will serve as drop off

locations for the donations beginning noon each day.

Donations through NRHH and Student Activities can also be dropped off in the Student Activities office in the Downing Student Union Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Laysha Brown, director of operations for the WKU Track and Field and Cross Country teams, said students can donate items on Thursday, by dropping them off at the Track and Field room 2008 from 12-3 p.m.

“It’s just something we wanted to do as a team,” Brown said. “We thought it would be a great opportunity for student athletes with busy schedules to still be able to reach out and help.”

The Track and Field team has also collected water and canned goods.

Everything collected by the team will be given to WKU Student United Way who will be traveling to affected areas to give the donations to those in need.

Student volunteers with Student

Activities and NRHH will drive to Savannah, Georgia, on Friday, Oct. 28, to deliver the donations to the Salvation Army.

According to a FEMA press release, the state of Georgia has received more than 875,000 meals, 930,000 liters of water, 245 generators and 17,200 blankets so far through donations.

According to the United States Agency of International Development, more than 2.1 million people were affected in Haiti alone. More than $37 million has been raised from U.S. donations, and that money is going to the affected nations to help them begin to rebuild and restore.

“Our honorary may never see the outcome of deciding to serve through donations, but that isn’t the point,” Johnson said. “The point is to help someone else.”

Reporter Natalie Perry can be reached at 270-745-6011 and atnatalie.perry204@topper.wku.edu. Follow her on Twitter at @natalie__carter.

Educational progam expanding its reach

BY LEAH JOHNSON HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU WKU’s Educational Talent Search program will be expanding to Barren and Simpson counties after receiving a third grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The Educational Talent Search program is one of five TRiO programs provided at WKU. The federally-funded programs are designed to provide opportunities to low income, first generation students to help them succeed.

The Educational Talent Search specifically serves middle to high school students, tracking them through their college graduation.

Martha Sales, the executive director of WKU TRiO, has been involved with the program since 1997.

The TRiO program at WKU reaches schools within a 10 county target area. The targeted area helps Sales determine which counties to expand

TRiO to with each new proposal.

“It was an area that still had need, but there were no TRiO services being provided there,” Sales said.

There are three Educational Talent Search programs at WKU provided by three separate grants. Since 1981, the first grant has allowed the WKU Educational Talent Search to work with counties surrounding Warren County. The second grant specifically serves the Bowling Green and Warren County area.

This newly-awarded third grant will serve Barren and Simpson counties and provide service to 500 students within the schools in these areas.

Jennifer McWhorter, assistant director of the WKU Educational Talent Search program, has worked for the Educational Talent Search program for 10 years. She said with each grant they’ve applied for, the number of graduates they’ve seen has either increased or remained constant.

McWhorter also travels to schools within the surrounding counties and works with students on study skills, career research, time management and college applications.

“My personal goal is not really numbers necessarily, it’s great to have a bunch of students enroll in college but you really want them to persist in college,” McWhorter said.

“My goal is just to kind of be there as a resource and to know that they can count on me.”

The U.S. Department of Education began the Educational Talent Search program in 1965 as part of the Higher Education Act, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s website.

The Educational Talent Search program is one of eight TRiO programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

The programs share a common goal, but serve various groups of people. Nation-wide, there are more than 2,900 projects serving more

than 840,000 low-income Americans, according to the WKU TRiO Programs website.

Each grant TRiO receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education lasts for five years. Sales, a Trio alum, writes these proposals every four years.

“I was in student support services here at WKU,” Sales said. “I’ve always liked assisting students, providing them with opportunities for success and that’s what TRiO does.”

Sales said her goal with TRiO is to raise awareness for the program to assist more people and get more people involved. She hopes that by word of mouth students can see there are other people just like them out there.

“More people need to know about who we are and what we do,” Sales said.

Reporter Leah Johnson can be reached at 270-745-6011 and lc_ johnson@comcast.net

Record number of Kentucky voters registered online

BY KYLIE CARLSON HERALD.NEWS@WKU.EDU Efforts across Kentucky to get college students registered to vote this year, including programs from the WKU Student Government Association and the online registration website launched by the Kentucky Secretary of State, have changed the amounts and demographics of voters.

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes has been working to make sure eligible Kentuckians are encouraged to participate in elections.

“When we launched Go Vote KY in May, we wanted to make sure every person eligible was able to become registered and get to the polls,” Grimes said. “We have 3.3 million voters registered, which is a record.”

Grimes said a large portion of the 106,000 new voters registered are within the age range of millennials, a group usually criticized for lack of involvement in elections.

“Everyone believes we have lost millennials, but I believe they are

wrong,” Grimes said. “Millennials are engaged and excited. Almost 50 percent of the registered voters are ages 18 to 25 years old.”

Grimes said 30 percent of new registered voters this year have come from online registration, which was launched and publicized by the Office of the Secretary of State through campus and community presentations this spring.

Lynette Yates, Warren County Clerk, says she has noticed the larger online presence in registrations, but voters are also still coming in to her office to register traditionally.

“We have had more registrations online since the website was launched in May,” Yates said in an email. “We also have processed several walk in registrations. We also receive registration from Driver’s License and several welfare agencies. It has been a busy Election season.”

Grimes said, while being registered to vote is an important part of the process no matter what method Kentuckians choose, she wants everyone to remember registering doesn’t count as a vote.

“Registering doesn’t matter if you don’t actually get out and vote,” Grimes said.

SGA President Jay Todd Richey and Chief of Staff James Line, who have also been aiding in voter registration, said getting students out to vote at their designated precincts was a priority for them as well.

“We have been working on determining ways to get students to the polls,” Richey said.

Richey assigned Line the task of figuring out how to get students registered and get students to the polls.

“We’ll be working with hall councils and a program called Ride To Vote to make sure students turnout on Election Day,” Line said. “If anyone needs a ride to the polls, contact the SGA office, and we’ll make sure you’re ready to go.”

Richey and Line have been working since the start of the semester to get students registered, or even interested in the election, which Line said has resulted in about 300 students registering to vote.

“At the start of the semester, Jay

Todd tasked me with leading our first-ever SGA Voter Empowerment Initiative,” Line said. “I put together a task force to start planning and implementing what I saw as two phases of this process: registering students to vote and then making sure students turn out to vote.”

Line said he did everything he could think of in order to make sure he spoke to a vast majority of students. That meant going to classrooms, tabling events and even going to apartment doors.

Richey said one of the biggest points he wanted to stress to students was that it wasn’t just about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

“We stressed that it wasn’t just about the presidency,” Richey said.

“We wanted them to know the importance of other offices they could vote for once registered as well.

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A SLICE TO SAVOR

Orange you glad I didn’t say pumpkin?

BY KELLY BURGESS HERALD.OPINION@WKU.EDU

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range is my favorite color, but of all the colors, I feel like orange is often ostracized.

From my experience, most people who like orange generally like it because of its association with the University of Tennessee. However, even though I am from Tennessee, I can honestly say that is not why I love the color orange.

I love the color orange because it radiates warmth and reminds me of every beautiful sunset I’ve seen. Orange is a transition color; not quite red, not quite yellow, it is somewhere in between, and represents the gradual change of seasons better than anything else. Therefore, fall is the perfect time of year to embrace the color orange in every sense the color inspires.

The first thing that comes to mind when considering the color orange and the autumn season is a pumpkin. Pumpkin is either something you love or hate, avoid or embrace.

Whether you think it’s the greatest thing since sliced pumpkin bread, or

too “basic” to stand, it has definitely earned quite the reputation.

But wait, I did say I wasn’t going to say pumpkin, so what’s the catch?

Pumpkins aren’t the only orange things available to eat this time of year –– let’s give the other overlooked orange foods their time in the limelight, or orange light if you will.

The family of orange vegetables is not limited to pumpkin, but includes butternut squash, acorn squash and sweet potatoes just to name a few.

Color isn’t the only thing that unites this fall faction. Common color indicates similar nutrients and nutrition benefits. Orange vegetables are rich in Vitamin C and beta-carotene, an organic compound that gives them their rich orange color. Carrots actually got their name from this compound!

In your body, beta-carotene can change into a usable form of Vitamin A, which will work wonders for your health! Vitamin A is commonly known because of the vital role it plays in eyesight and vision. Vitamin A also boosts your immune system –– something especially important as the end of year allergies and assignments threaten your immune

health. Orange vegetables are also known to help regulate blood sugar levels, which is especially helpful for diabetics, or anyone trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

To get as much of this orange goodness into your kitchen as possible, it is important to know the tricks of the trade for eating orange veggies. Butternut squash, acorn squash and sweet potatoes can all be used and prepared in very similar ways.

The most basic way is to oven roast with either olive oil and black pepper or butter and brown sugar for savory or sweet flavors, respectively.

They can also be combined with apples and other spices to make creamy soups, or cubed and mixed with other vegetables. The squashes can be simply cut in half and stuffed with all sorts of tasty combinations, and sweet potatoes make awesome fries and pies!

Cooking with your variety of orange ingredients doesn’t have to be hard if you just get a little creative and “expand your orange.” Any way you eat it, your body will thank you.

Orange you glad there’s more to fall than just pumpkin?

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COMMENTARY

Rigged election: conspiracy or excuses?

BY ANDREW HENDERSON HERALD.OPINION@WKU.EDU

We are now a little under two weeks away from election day that sweet, sweet day of relief where the 2016 election will finally conclude after the absolute atrocity that it has been.

The polls will close across the United States the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 8, as we all cuddle together in bunkers underneath our homes awaiting CNN’s holographic electoral college map to light up red and blue.

The next morning, we will wake up knowing we elected a new president, and everything will officially be over.

Unless, you know, Donald Trump doesn’t accept the results of the election and releases a tweet firestorm on the American people.

The Republican nominee recently said at the third presidential debate when asked by moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News if he would commit to accept the results of the presidential debate that he would keep us all in suspense.

This would mark the first time Trump has kept us all in suspense, so we’re not even sure what that could look like. The day after the debate, Trump said he would accept the elec-

tion results ... if he won. Ah! He was so close to not making yet another mockery of our democratic system.

Everyone was awestruck. How could Trump, of all people, not intend to accept the results of the election? It’s surprising that a man who’s not a fan of a free press and peaceful protest wouldn’t be a fan of accepting the results of the election. Truly a shocking moment in political history.

But what is it that’s preventing Trump from embracing the election results? Could it be his dwindling poll numbers? Or is it more sinister than that?

For a while now, Trump has claimed the election is rigged. First, what does it even mean that the election is “rigged?” This question came up as part of the FiveThirtyEight election podcast where Clare Malone, senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight, says Trump is “most likely talking about voter fraud.”

We have a baseline –– Trump is talking about voter fraud. Or he could be talking about a large-scale, coordinated effort by Hillary Clinton and her body doubles to go out and vote at every single polling place in the U.S. Truly, that woman will stop at nothing.

So exactly how likely is voter fraud?

“The Truth About Voter Fraud,” published by the Brennan Center for Justice, reviewed elections that had been studied for voter fraud and found “incident rates between 0.00004 percent and 0.0009 percent.” That number is so low that I’m having trouble finding an apt comparison for it.

You’re more likely to find an empty parking space at WKU than finding an occurrence of voter fraud, and that’s saying something.

A Columbia University study tracked incidence rates for voter fraud over a period of two years and found that when fraud was reported it could generally be traced to “false claims by the loser of a close race, mischief and administrative or voter error.”

Rick Hasen, founder of the Election Law Blog and author of “The Voting Wars,” told NPR in order to pull off the sort of rigged election Trump talks about, you’d have to coordinate millions of people in large swing states to achieve such a feat.

None of that actually matters, but then again, when has factual information mattered in this campaign?

A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found that a “large majority of Republican respondents

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He has also spent time reporting in North Carolina where Republican officials gutted 238 hours of early voting in Charlotte’s Mecklenburg County, which has a huge effect on African-Americans voting.

You want to talk about a rigged election? Talk about these blatant forms of disenfranchisement and unnecessary hurdles to get to the polls.

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A river boat floats down the Ohio River as the sun sets in the distance on Oct. 21.

“Mountain was an unbelievable experience,” photographer Kelsea Hobbs said. “I not only grew as a photographer, but made so many connections with photojournalists that have shaped the way I approach my subjects and my photos. Because I grew technically while there, I was able to take photos in new situations, like from a helicopter over Paducah, Kentucky. I was also able to leave these new situations with photo’s I’m proud of.” Kelsea Hobbs/HERALD

Jamey Ward, 45, is a retiree of the river barges. Ward is now an alcoholic who spends most time at home surrounded by beer cans. “At one point Jamey told his friends ‘I don’t give a shit what he takes pictures of. This is my life, this is how I live,’” photographer Gabriel Scarlett said. “This week I learned that my images will always fall short of telling my subjects’ entire stories, and that is okay.” Gabriel Scarlett/HERALD

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Martha Emmons of Paducah fixes her shoes as she and her husband Hutch Smith get ready for work on Oct. 19 in their house in Paducah. “Because of the Mountain Workshops, I learned to build relationships and ask the right kind of questions to get into intimate spaces with my subjects, such as the bedroom and the bathroom,” photographer Kelsea Hobbs said. “You’ll never gain that access if there isn’t trust and if you never ask.” Kelsea Hobbs/HERALD

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very October the photojournalism program in the WKU School of Journalism and Broadcasting hosts a week-long workshop held in a different town in Kentucky. This year the workshop was held Tuesday through Saturday, Oct. 18-22, in Paducah.

The Mountain Workshops recruit “coaches” from major publications including: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, among others.

Throughout the week the coaches work with participants, mainly students, who sign up for the five workshops including: photojournalism, video storytelling, picture editing, data visualization and time-lapse photography.

The participants choose their story assignments randomly out of a hat and are given five days to produce the story. The stories are published in a Mountain Workshops book and appear on the MountainWorkshops.org website.

This year, 79 students participated in the 2016 Mountain Workshops. James Kenney, workshop director, said the workshop helps promote the WKU photojournalism program and gives Paducah a unique documentation of the town.

“They’re getting a historical account, at least of five days there, of what it is like to live in Paducah,” he said. “That’s an incredible documentation of a community –– they benefit from that.”

These are a selection of our favorite photographs the Herald staff created during the workshop.

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Jake May, left, Mountain Workshops coach and chief photographer at the Flint Journal, talks with Elizabethtown junior Kelsea Hobbs. “I think it’s vital to continue to hand over the lessons we’ve been taught to the next generation of photographers,” May said. “It’s incredible to watch the growth from start to finish of each student.”

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St. Louis senior Michael Noble Jr. takes a break from transcribing video on Thursday during the Mountain Workshops in Paducah. “I wanted to learn how to put a story together, figure out story structure and tell a story in a way that I hadn’t done before, I’ve only ever done three videos before this so I was very new to it,” Noble said.

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Student podcast looks at disabilities

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on Halloween.

To prepare for the show, eight WKU students were chosen to become cast members, each to portray a different character from the show. For this year’s production, the cast is lead by Louisville senior Dexter Crowdus, a theatre major, and Taylorsville senior Cadeja Hays, who studies criminology and psychology.

“This is my third year helping direct ‘Rocky Horror [Picture Show],’” Hays said. “It’s an awesome experience. You get to meet so many new people.”

Within the last week of rehearsals, the cast of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” completed their first dress rehearsal. Clad in high heels, outlandish clothing and plenty of fishnet stockings, the cast members slowly meandered their way toward the sound of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”

At the beginning of August, Franklin senior Jacob Holt released the first episode of “Ability,” a podcast made up of interviews with people who have disabilities.

Part of Holt’s inspiration came from “The Loveumentary,” a podcast by a man who interviews different couples with a wide range of love stories.

“I really love the intimacy of those interviews and hearing those people talk about their stories,” Holt said.

“Because, you know, everybody has a story.”

Holt knew he wanted to have a podcast of his own, so he began brainstorming different ideas until he came up with the idea to interview people with different disabilities.

“That’s something I would want to listen to,” Holt said. “I thought that would be really neat.”

In his first episode, Holt interviewed life-long friend Destiney Dyer. Both Holt and Dyer live with Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type 3, and have been friends since preschool. In the episode, the two exchange stories about what it’s been like growing up with their disability.

“We both lived in Franklin, and it’s a pretty small town, so everybody knows us and knows our condition,” Dyer said. “But, when we go to bigger cities, not everyone knows, and people kind of stare and wonder what’s wrong with us.”

Dyer said something she sees often is parents pulling their children away from her and not allowing them to ask any questions.

“That kind of bothers me, because at that age, it’s best to expose them to these kinds of things,” Dyer said.

“With me, and I know Jacob’s the same way, we don’t care if people ask ques-

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This Louisville freshman Dejon McClure, left, and Bowling Green sophomore Sophia Nasato rehearse for the upcoming annual “Rocky Horror Picture Show” using the movie as a guide Tuesday, Oct. 25, in Downing Student Union. “Rocky Horror Picture Show” will be performed Monday. Oct. 31, at the Capitol Arts Center. Michelle Hanks/HERALD

Come up to the lab Students Prepare return to stage of capital theater for “Rocky Horror picture show” Production

BY ELISABETH MOORE HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU

The cult classic “Rocky Horror Picture Show” hits the stage of the Capital Arts Theater on Halloween night. Clad in a golden bra and boy shorts, Rocky steals the show as Dr. Frank-N-Furter marvels at his latest creation. In the background, dancing bikers from the far-off planet of Transylvania dance to the Time Warp, a national dance from their home planet.

Once a year, WKU students have a chance to join the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” in a one-night showing sponsored by the WKU Campus Activity Board. The event is scheduled for Halloween night, next Monday, at the Capitol Arts Center in downtown Bowling Green.

Doors open at 9 p.m. and the show will begin at 10 p.m. Tickets cost $10,

including a prop bag for audience members to use throughout the show.

First premiering in 1975 and airing in a recent remake this month, “Rocky Horror Picture Show” is a cult classic showcasing a love story intermingled with aliens, a rocking biker and a muscular creation named Rocky.

“Working on the show has been a blast,” Florence sophomore Madeline Marita said. “The ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ means just embracing everyone. We are only on this Earth so long and spreading hate is such a waste of our short time. ‘Rocky Horror [Picture Show]’ is really just a reminder of love.”

Marita, who plays a female version of Rocky, said the auditioning process began toward the end of September.

Rehearsals for the show took place twice a week and every day in the week leading up to their one and only show

ASL hosts deaf culture event for Halloween

BY KALEE CHISM

HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU With Halloween coming up, there are festivities to get everyone in the community involved, including the Deaf Culture Event Halloween Party.

The Deaf Culture events allow students studying American Sign Language to expand skills and learn from advanced students as well as people within the deaf community, giving them an opportunity to understand more about deaf culture.

“We basically have different events that are completely voice-off so the students have to sign the whole time, and it’s kind of a good time for the students to practice outside class and get immersed in what deaf culture is,” Austin Rutland, Lexington senior and president of the ASL organization on campus, said.

The Halloween party Tuesday night included activities such as pin the boo on the ghost, Halloween bingo, coloring pumpkins and a costume contest.

Deaf children and their parents from the Bowling Green community were also invited to come participate at the event.

“I know that especially for students, being an advanced student now, I can see how it’s helpful for the younger students because they get help from all of us,” Cincinnati junior Mariah Armstrong said. “But, also, it’s a place for everyone to meet people that are deaf that do live in Bowling Green and are

Luke Akridge, 27, a WKU computer science major and web developer for WKU’s IT department, attends an ASL costume party on Tuesday, Oct. 25. Kelsea Hobbs/HERALD around the community.”

The events aim to give students opportunities to practice signing; doing it with other people can make learning easier.

“I think it’s good exposure for learning new signs, and I interact with the deaf people, and Mariah and people who are in ASL three and four and

can kind of show you the way,” Mount Washington junior McKenzie Perdue said.

Armstrong said she has learned about how deaf culture is different from the hearing community since learning sign language.

“A lot of people think it’s just ‘oh, they’re deaf, living in a hearing com-

munity,’ but they have so much stuff that’s just their own, and it’s been really cool to learn about that,” she said. “It’s neat to see other people realize that, too.”

Learning sign language is a skill that can be used anywhere, and it can be much more beneficial than many peo-

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BY MILES SCHROADER HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU In October 1935, Radio Femenina went on the air in the unassuming but progressive South American city of Montevideo, Uruguay, with programming made by and for women, according to the University of Louisville history department’s Christine Ehrick in her latest book, “Radio and the Gendered Soundscape.”

Last Thursday at Barnes and Noble, Ehrick gave a summary presentation about her book on the history of women, radio and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Uruguay.

Ehrick spoke about radio between 1930 and 1950, emphasizing what it meant to have a female voice heard on that platform.

“A woman’s voice on the radio: it is worth pausing for a moment to consider all that this implied, especially in radio’s first decades,” Ehrick said during her presentation. “Radio was the internet of its day; it revolutionized the way people received information and perceived their place in the larger human community.”

Feminists have used the word ‘voice’ to refer to a wide range of aspirations, Ehrick said, including cultural agency, political enfranchisement, sexual au-

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tions. We would rather that than you just sit there and wonder.”

Holt said he hopes “Ability” will give people a new and broadened understanding of disabilities.

“The internet’s existed for a long time, and a lot of people use the internet to enforce their own point of view, their own belief system,” Holt said.

“They don’t use the internet in what

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During rehearsal, cast members played their part in front of a television showing the original “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” While lip-syncing their way through the film, each member has to follow the stage movements as well as show every emotion their character shows.

“Halloween is my favorite holiday,

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ple expect, Rutland said.

Rutland said he hopes people can gain an understanding of deaf culture and how beneficial knowing ASL can be in life.

“I think it’s something that even if

tonomy and expressive freedom.

Comedian Niní Marshall was one of the women Ehrick focused on in her presentation, saying she believes one of Marshall’s most important characters was Catita.

“Catita is loud, brash, and her speech peppered with urban slang and malapropisms stereotypically associated with working-class women,” Ehrick noted. “She seems fearless, utterly unconcerned about the pressures most women faced to be good, to be quiet, to be submissive.”

Another woman Ehrick believes was an influential figure for women in broadcasting is former First Lady of Argentina Eva Duarte de Peron.

“The one person in the book people usually know about is Eva Peron,” Ehrick said. “I think it’s important to really think of her in terms of her voice. We think of her as a visual presence, but sometimes we don’t pay attention to how important her voice was on the impact of South American politics.”

“I think what’s memorable [from the presentation] was this is the first time I’ve ever heard the voice of Eva,” Brian Coutts, department head of library public services, said. “I’ve seen the movie version with Madonna, but this was different hearing what she really sounds like.”

Ehrick spoke about how significant

it was just to finally have a female voice on the radio.

“History has many themes. One of them is that women should be quiet,” she said, quoting Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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I think is the proper way, which is to learn new things, challenge yourself, become more.”

In his third episode, Holt interviewed Shannon McCaffrey, who is blind.

“It kind of changed my point of view on life,” Holt said, explaining that he now notices little things when he’s out that would make life harder if you’re blind.

“You know, I’ll see a step that’s not marked and think about how [McCaf-

frey] would not notice it and just walk off of it,” he said. “So, things like that.

I hope that people just grow in understanding and learn a new point of view.”

Holt has released one podcast each month since August and said he plans on continuing the project as long as he can.

Holt said he loves podcasting as a medium, joking he has a “face for radio.”

Holt said he hopes his following

continues to grow, offering exposure to a wider crowd of listeners.

“Not every disability is the same,” Dyer said. “We’re not going to get people to acknowledge what these disabilities are unless they get comfortable asking questions.”

personally, and ‘Rocky Horror [Picture Show]’ makes it 10 times better,” Jeanie Battaglia, a graphic design major from Burlington who plays Colombia, said.

“This is probably the most exposed I’ve ever been in public.”

While adjusting to the quick outfit changes and repositioning of sets, cast members struggled to find their correct footing in the small room they were given to practice in. Yet, as the movie played on, each cast member adjusted

and lip-synced their way through their first dress rehearsal.

“I actually didn’t know about this,” Monroe, Georgia, freshman Aaliyah Barnes, who plays Eddie, said. “Jeanie is a floor mate of mine and I came back one night and she told me about it. My first time seeing it [‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’] was during practice.”

Whether or not they have heard of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” before, various WKU students have come to-

gether to recreate the original cult classic. With the addition of a very diverse cast and a few gender-bent characters, the cast and crew of the WKU “Rocky Horror Picture Show” is ready to premiere on Halloween night.

you just know a couple signs, whether you work in a school or in a restaurant, it’s something that you’re probably more likely to come across than you think and just knowing those couple words can make somebody’s day, and just being exposed to those things,” Perdue said.

Rutland said being involved in this

organization and its events has exposed him to people he would never had met, much less communicated with, had it not been for this program.

intelligent or illiterate or things like that, but they’re completely normal, and I’ve met some amazing people through ASL.”

amazing.”

Tying in the theme of a woman’s voice into current times, Ehrick mentioned how historically significant it is that this is the first time we’ve ever heard a woman at a presidential debate.

“The importance of voice is pres-

The importance of voice is present all of the time, but we don’t always pay a lot of attention to it. ” Author of Radio and the Gendered Soundscape, Christine Ehrick

en and microphones were incompatible in 1934, a common opinion, Ehrick said. At the time, the popular opinion was that women’s voices were seen as too high pitched or “shrill” for the radio.

“I like that these women were fearless during a time when it wasn’t common to hear women on the radio,” Michael Moore, WKU library systems office manager, said. “Something interesting to me from the presentation was that during a World War, women were even allowed to get on the radio and have this open forum. It’s quite

ent all of the time, but we don’t always pay a lot of attention to it,” Ehrick said.

“We were talking, for example, about the presidential campaign. We’re not always conscious of the degree of long standing prejudices against the female voice. This book helps us pay attention to the history and significance so that we become more aware of it.”

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Screening held to raise awareness of food waste

Max Goldstein, right, a freshman from Louisville, hands out popcorn during a screening of “Just Eat It,� presented by the Office of Sustainability on Monday, Oct. 24, on South Lawn. “Just Eat It� is a documentary that follows a couple for six months that only eats wasted food or food that is unfit to be sold in a grocery store. Evan Boggs/HERALD

BY ADAM SIMS HERALD.FEATURES@WKU.EDU On Monday night, students passing by South Lawn may have been offered free popcorn and a chance to watch a movie projected on the Academic Complex. Many students accepted, not knowing the popcorn they ate may have been from the same batch they were eating at the Homecoming parade.

The movie, “Just Eat it: A Food Waste Story,� is a 2014 documentary about filmmakers Jenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin, who decide to live six months eating only food discarded by other people in an effort to raise awareness of food waste. Students were encouraged to watch the documentary while eating popcorn left over from local movie theaters and the Homecoming parade.

Elizabeth Gafford, coordinator of resource conservation in facilities management, was inspired to show the film after going to Nashville, where the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation hosted a screening of the film. “We thought it was inspiring and informative, so we decided to host a community screening of the film on campus for National Food Day,� she said.

National Food Day was established in 2011 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Every year on Oct. 24, National Food Day celebrates healthy and sustainable food. “Wasting food to this degree is ex-

pensive, socially irresponsible and environmentally destructive,� Gafford said.

According to Feeding America, a non-profit organization that brings food to underfed Americans, an estimated 25 to 40 percent of food in the United States will never be eaten. Every year, an estimated 70 billion pounds of food is wasted in the country. The food tends to end up in landfills, where they can decompose into methane, which can cause global warming faster than carbon dioxide. Feeding America recovered two billion pounds of food in 2015.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has a Food Recovery Challenge, which encourages companies to donate excess or leftover food for a greater cause. On its website, the EPA has a food recovery hierarchy, a reverse pyramid ordering the uses of excess food from most to least.

At the top, the EPA’s goal is to reduce the amount of surplus food. Descending from that is having the food used to feed hungry people, then animals. Industrial and composting are near the bottom.

Max Goldstein, a sophomore from Louisville and vice president of the Horticulture Club, said many farmers’ markets are unable to sell some of their food because of its irregular shape. Despite the food being as edible as conventional produce, farmers end up with more than they can eat, and some even use the food for compost.

“It’s not good for the soil to make compost out of tons of tomatoes,�

Goldstein said, noting their acidity.

At the bottom of the EPA’s inverted pyramid is throwing food away in the landfill, which should be used as a last resort.

Some students are against the idea of throwing away edible food and are

at the planning stages of founding a Food Recovery Network chapter at WKU. Lawrenceburg senior Alexis Corbin, student ambassador for the Office of Sustainability, said her childhood is one of her inspirations for her involvement in conserving food. “My family couldn’t afford to waste food,� she said. “Food waste is something that is sensitive to me.�

When visiting friends, Corbin would eat their food if they left it behind. She listed the many ways people recover food, including getting it from friends and dumpster diving. “It’s a little offsetting when you see a dumpster filled with hummus,� she said.

The WKU Food Recovery Network chapter is projected to open by the end of the spring semester. Currently, they are looking for community partners and finding staff to train.

Their showing of “Just Eat It� aimed to bring awareness of the project.

Lexington senior Lauren English represents the future Food Recovery Network chapter, and said she hopes to see the chapter off the ground soon. “Food waste is a huge issue everywhere, and students can make a difference here in Bowling Green and our campus,� English said.

Any student who wants to be involved can contact anyone involved in the Food Recovery Network chapter, or contact Elizabeth Gafford.

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pass the ball to and make plays.

“They make my job a lot easier; both of these guys can score the ball with the best of them, so it helps me transition a little better,” Lomomba said. “I don’t have to do as much.

These guys help me on the court; they communicate.”

Lawson has had a career on the Hill mostly highlighted by being a prolific shot blocker and rim protector for the Tops. This season might be a little different for the 7-foot Englishman.

“I always saw my role in previous years as a defensive stopper and kind of just provide on the offensive end if it’s setting a good screen or trying to go for the offensive rebounds

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Continued from SPORTS omore Jaycee Coe will finally be eligible after transferring from the University of Kentucky.

The Lady Tops also return several key players from last season such as redshirt senior guard Kendall Noble, redshirt senior Micah Jones, and junior forwards Ivy and Tashia Brown.

Jones returns for a fifth year after tearing her ACL very early last season, giving her a medical redshirt allowing her to come back for one final season.

“Her leadership and experience

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“We need those guys to step up,” quarterbacks coach Brian Brohm said. “We’ve asked them multiple times to step up this year, and they’ve answered the bell every time, so now we’re looking forward to giving them some time and seeing what they can do.”

Baker is expected to make his second career start in the WKU backfield.

The freshman running back filled in for Wales in week three, accounting for 115 total yards from scrimmage and a touchdown to go with it.

“I’m just approaching it like another week, and I just have to do what [Wales] would do if he was in there,”

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as much as possible,” Lawson said.

“Coach has really made an emphasis that there is three primary ways of scoring; we are gonna pass it into the post and drive it to the paint, and we’re gonna shoot threes and, then everything is gonna flow from there.

“You really start to see great ball movement,” Lawson continued. “We are starting to look like the San Antonio Spurs out there.”

Lawson was the leading scorer in the team’s scrimmage this past Saturday and the team is noticing the improvements he has made and the hard work he has put in to better his game.

“His confidence is up; he is dunking everything around the basket, and that’s what we need from Ben,” Justin Johnson said. “Finishing ev-

erything and being a rim protector, he’s doing his job. He has gained some strength over the summer. He has worked really hard, and as you can tell he has improvement in his game. I think his improvement has shown tremendously.”

Lawson is excited for this year’s offense and how it will help him expand his game to help the team.

“The kind of players that have come in this year are tremendous shooters, and that’s just gonna open the floor up incredibly for any post presence,” Lawson said. “Now we are adding pick and rolls and movement to it which is gonna be so useful to me exploiting my quickness and agility rather than my strength back to the basket. I’m still gonna have that post presence, and we are starting to

are second to none,” Clark-Heard said. “It’s been tough on Micah because she had a previous ACL tear in high school. [She] and I have had a lot of conversations about understanding her body at this time in her career. She’s been awesome because she leads the team and can do so many different things. The more she’s out there, the more confidence I have that she’s still getting better.”

Last season, the Lady Tops’ most impressive victory was a 71-69 win over then 16th ranked University of Louisville.

This season, the Lady Tops’ non-conference schedule includes a

home game against Indiana, a trip to Florida for the Gulf Coast Showcase that begins with a game against DePaul, and a trip to Louisville where the Lady Cards will look for revenge against the Lady Tops after last year’s showdown.

The players hope that an impressive showing in the non-conference will take the pressure off of winning the C-USA tournament to receive a bid to the NCAA tournament.

“Those game are going to be really big for us,” Noble said about the non-conference schedule. “It’s going to give us a chance to prove ourselves

Baker said. “The first eight games, I’ve learned a lot. It’s the most I’ve learned about football since I’ve been playing, so every day I’m growing and making strides. Hopefully Saturday I can go out and do my thing.”

Not only will the Toppers be without Wales for the first half, but multi-talented junior wide receiver/ punt returner Nacarius Fant is also listed as questionable with an ankle injury heading into a matchup with a versatile defense.

“They’re an athletic bunch,” Brian Brohm said of the FAU defense.

“When you turn on the film, there’s some guys running around that’ll challenge our receivers and get up and press them and make you complete some passes with some tough one-on-one coverage.

“The Owls (1-6, 0-3 C-USA) are in the midst of a six-game losing streak,

but their record can be a bit misleading. FAU has lost its last four games by a combined 17 points, losing to conference opponents Florida International, Charlotte and Marshall by one score or less.

“They’ve lost a lot of game that went down to the wire which means they’re competitive, and they’ve got good players,” Jeff Brohm said.

“They’re very capable of beating anybody. I think there’s a lot of parity in this conference, and I think that our guys need to understand that if they’re not ready to play, without question we’ll get beat.”

It will be a Homecoming affair for a lot of Jeff Brohm’s players as seven of the Hilltoppers’ starters hail from Florida, including the nation’s sixth leading passer and WKU starting quarterback, Mike White.

“It’s always fun when you get to

develop some plays where I get my jump shots, so I’m really excited for this.”

Stansbury is excited to have Lawson as a part of his first Topper team.

“He [Lawson] is a guy that needs something good to happen for him,” Stansbury said. “I see a lot more good in him than bad. How many 7-footers can run, catch the basketball? He’s got great hands. I think he feels like we believe in him, and we do. There is no question that he will be a factor on this team.”

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and give us an opportunity to get an at-large bid so there’s not so much pressure going into the conference tournament like last year.”

The Lady Tops begin their 201617 season with a scrimmage against Young Harris College on Thursday, Nov. 3, in Diddle Arena. The regular season kicks off in Diddle Arena with a matchup against Alabama A&M who won just five games a year ago.

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go 35 minutes away from where you grew up, but it’s a big game for us,” White said. “We kind of took this playoff mentality that we gotta win out and reach the goals we set back in the spring.”

With a win on Saturday, the Toppers will reach one of those goals that is set to begin every season: bowl eligibility.

“We expect it of ourselves,” White said. “Our only goal in mind right now is beating FAU. It’s a one game season –– coach [Jeff] Brohm preaches that –– and I think obviously in the back of our mind we want to reach our goals we set when we started, but it’s just one game at a time.”

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“I have always believed that practice has got to be harder than the games,” Stansbury said. “The games has got to be easy compared to practice. I feel very comfortable that these guys are giving me everything that they got.”

Lomomba, a small forward from Providence out of the Big East Conference, is transitioning to the point guard position for the Toppers this season.

“He is a great young man,” Stansbury said. “He is about the team, he’s about winning. He is willing to do whatever I ask him to do. You can imagine being a three player [small forward] your whole life. Basically as a three player you take care of yourself. Now, all of a sudden, you are out there having to guard the most difficult position to guard and that’s the point guard.”

Lomomba has had a little help making the move by having Thomas and Que Johnson, veteran players, to

As the Michelle Clark-Heard era enters its fifth year, the expectations couldn’t be higher for the Lady Toppers as the team hosted its annual preseason media day on Tuesday.

Clark-Heard will look to lead the Lady Tops to their third conference championship and third trip to the NCAA tournament in just five seasons.

She will also look to add a large number to her already impressive 103 wins (25.75 wins a season) as the head coach of the Lady Tops.

After a successful 24-5 (15-3 Conference USA) regular season in 201516, the Lady Tops had high hopes of winning the C-USA tournament and appearing in the NCAA tournament for the third time in four years.

However, a heartbreaking 66-63 loss to Marshall University in the Lady Tops’ opening game ended those hopes.

The Lady Tops received a bid to the WNIT and ended the season 277(15-3), ending the 2016-17 campaign with a 68-54 loss to North Dakota State in the WNIT quarterfinals.

After the 27-win season, the Lady Tops enter the 2016-17 season as the favorites to win C-USA and get back to the NCAA tournament.

“You always want to be in the conversation to win a championship,” Clark-Heard said. “From the day I stepped foot on campus I said I wanted to have a chance to be in the same conversation as all the big programs. Nobody puts more pressure on themselves than me.”

“We’re going to make sure every single day that we’re competing and doing the thing we need to do and the results will take care of themselves,” Clark-Heard continued. “At the end of the day, this is where you want your program. You want people talking about you and wanting them to say that you’re the team to beat.”

Depth and experience are key factors of why WKU was picked as the pre-season favorite to win C-USA. After sitting out last season due to transfer rules, redshirt junior Kyvin Goodin-Rogers and redshirt sophomore Jaycee Coe will finally be eligi-

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Redshirt seniors Que Johnson, Junior Lomomba and Cleveland “Pancake” Thomas answer questions during a press conference on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at Diddle Arena. They all transferred to play basketball at WKU for their fifth and final year of eligibility.

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Hilltoppers host preseason media day

BY MATTHEW STEWART HERALD.SPORTS@WKU.EDU The season is getting closer for the WKU men’s basketball team and first-year Head Coach Rick Stansbury. The Hilltoppers held their annual basketball media day in Diddle Arena on Tuesday.

Stansbury has brought a wealth of experience to the team with three graduate transfer guards in Junior Lomomba, Que Johnson and Cleveland “Pancake” Thomas.

The three fifth-year seniors have helped with communication on the court and helping the younger players adjust to being on a college basketball team.

Junior forward Justin Johnson has noticed the immediate impact they will have on the team.

“Those three guys have played at a high level,” Justin Johnson said.

“Having those guys and the leadership that they bring and us [himself and senior forward Ben Lawson]

coming back … and those three guys know what it takes to win. We are gonna compete with those guys every day and as we continue to grow.”

The returning players recognize the importance of communication on the court. The team is still building that aspect in practice and is ready to see it carry over on the court.

“It’s all about communication, we are all very high IQ players and I think just getting on the same page is still one of our issues,” Lawson said. “The leadership has to come into play. We need to make it a key in practice so that when we have game slippage it won’t be as problematic as it is right now.”

“Communication plays a role in that, seeing guys make that extra pass,” Justin Johnson said. “You can see it every day, the ball movement is getting better every day.”

Stansbury has been preparing his team with tough practices that will prepare them for game time situations.

WKU prepares for road contest against FAU

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Three weeks ago, the WKU football team was sitting at a record of 3-3 overall with a lot of question marks surrounding the direction of its season.

Heading into their ninth game of the season, the Hilltoppers (53, 3-1 Conference USA) are tied for first place in the East division of C-USA “I think every year is going to be a new team and you’re gonna have to replace certain pieces,” Head Coach Jeff Brohm said. “We had a good schedule early on; we played some tough teams and weren’t able to win a couple close games. But that’s all about growing and becoming better, and I think that you understand your weaknesses early on and where you need to improve.”

After notching consecutive quality conference wins over Middle Tennessee State University and Old Dominion University, the Toppers will travel to Boca Raton a bit shorthanded.

As a result of the sideline-clearing brawl that took place in Saturday’s game against Old Dominion, redshirt senior running back Anthony “Ace” Wales will be suspended for the first half against FAU. The conference released a statement on the issue earlier this week citing that Wales and Old Dominion safety Christian Bynum will both miss the first half of their team’s games this weekend.

The statement also said that WKU senior wide receiver Nicholas Norris

Redshirt junior quarterback Mike White (14) goes for a pass during WKU’s 59-24 win over ODU on Saturday in Smith Stadium.

White contributed four touchdowns while completing 28 of 32 passes. Brendan O’Hern/HERALD and junior wide receiver Kylen Towner have both been “reprimanded for their roles” in the fight.

“Both teams did the best job that we could at separating things on both sides of the ball,” Jeff Brohm said.

“I think the fact that we were able to continue to play the game, noth-

ing else happened, and we shook hands after the game was a positive for all. Those things, we addressed with our team. People cannot leave the sideline. We cannot have those things happen. I think that our team understands that, and you don’t like to see that at all, but I think it’s been

addressed.”

Without Wales –– who is coming off a 157-yard, two-touchdown performance against ODU –– the Toppers will rely on freshman running back Quinton Baker and redshirt freshman running back Marquez

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