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When Bowling Green fresh-man Grace Wilson got the prin-ciple role in Justin Bieber’s “One Less Lonely Girl” music video, she wasn’t nervous at all.
“I actually had no idea who he was,” Wilson said. “So he was just another 15-year-old guy to me at the time.”
Although Wilson is a huge fan of country music star Chris Young, she said she still wasn’t nervous when she played the girl in the red hat and red car in Young’s new music video, “You,” which premiered on Country Music Television on Oct. 11.
“It all comes with the job, and when I’m there in the moment doing what I love that’s all that matters — there’s no time to be star struck,” she said.
On campus, she is often rec-ognized as the “one less lonely girl.” But it doesn’t feel like she’s famous.
“I haven’t reached my goal yet, so to me, it’s just starting,” Wilson said.
Wilson’s best friend, Bowl-ing Green freshman Kayla Bart-ley, said that Wilson is “pretty much a pro” during auditions, even though Wilson said she is nervous beforehand because she doesn’t know what to expect.
“She was more excited than anything to be fulfi lling part of
her dream,” said Deanna Wil-son, Grace’s mom. “She knows that this is what she was meant to do.”
Wilson gave many people credit for the success she’s had in her life, but she gave credit to God fi rst, saying that her religion is her life.
“God is the most important thing to me above everything else, and I give all the credit to Him,” she said.
Before every audition, Dean-na Wilson said that the family prays God will give her favor in the eyes of the casting director.
“It helps, it really does — or it has so far anyway,” Grace said.
By TABITHA [email protected]
Freshman stars in Justin Bieber, Chris Young videos
ADAM WOLFFBRANDT/HERALD
Bowling Green freshman Grace Wilson starred in Justin Bieber’s music video “One Less Lonely Girl” and country singer Chris Young’s music video “You,” which premiered on Oct. 11.
Tobacco ban a 'waiting game'
ILLUSTRATION BY JERRY ENGLEHART JR.
SGA offi cial: Ban would infringe upon students' rights
The Sept. 13 Student Government Association de-cision to pass a resolution supporting a campus-wide ban on all tobacco products comes with a catch — WKU must fi rst lift the housing contract that requires fresh-
men and sophomores to live in dorms.
Kaylee Egerer, speaker of the SGA Senate, said she never expects the Board of Regents to enact the SGA’s version of the proposed to-bacco ban because the hous-ing requirement is such a key factor.
However, Egerer said
the SGA needed to link the tobacco and housing reso-lutions together because it is “infringing on students’ rights” if it requires students who use tobacco products to live on a campus that is tobacco-free.
“A tobacco ban is totally unfair and unrealistic,” Eger-er said. “When the bill was
drafted, it wasn’t asking for the housing requirement to be lifted, but in order for there to ever be any support from the students for a tobacco ban, then they can’t be required to live on campus.”
Brian Kuster, director of Housing and Residence Life, said the SGA resolution is im-possible with WKU’s fi nan-
cial situation.The fi nancial model the
Student Life Foundation ad-opted before renovating all of the dorms in the past decade requires them to be at capacity in order to repay bondholders, Kuster said.
By NICK [email protected]
SEE INFRINGE, PAGE 6
Dec. 16, 2010:University Senate pass-es a tobacco-free cam-pus resolution
Jan. 24, 2011:Bowling Green City Commission passes city-wide smoking ban
Feb. 9, 2011: Staff Council voted down tobacco-free campus resolution
March 30, 2011: Political science students survey WKU students about tobacco ban
April 28, 2011:City-wide smoking ban in most public places went into eff ect
May 3, 2011: SGA tabled tobacco-free resolution at last meeting of spring semester
Sept. 13, 2011:SGA passed tobacco-free campus resolution with housing stipulation
SEE VIDEO, PAGE 3
Ransdell says total campus ban not realistic
The decision of whether to impose a campus-wide tobacco ban at WKU has become a “waiting game.”
President Gary Ransdell said he is waiting for a consensus among the University Senate, Staff Council and Student Government Association before proceed-ing any further. Currently, all three governing bodies have a different stance on the issue.
However, Ransdell also said he doesn’t think a campus-wide smoking ban is a realistic plan.
“I go back to Saturday — it was Homecoming, thousands of visitors — how are you going to police someone who chooses to smoke a cigarette while tail-gating?” he said. “You have to be realistic.”
According to a University Senate resolution to Ransdell in Dec. 2010, the senate supports a tobacco-free campus by Spring 2012.
SEE CAMPUS, PAGE 6
By KATHERINE [email protected]
WKU tobacco ban timeline
22 OCTOBER 28, 2011COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD
Guy Jordan gained an apprecia-tion for history from museum visits with his grandfather.
Jordan, now an assistant profes-sor of art history, perused the civil war and art museums in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
“As a little kid, I was interested in dinosaurs and science,” he said.
Jordan started college at George Washington University majoring in international affairs, but early on he found out that his true passion was
for art and the history behind it.“I found myself cutting class to
go to the museums,” Jordan said. He would spend countless hours
in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., when he said he should have been in class learning about bureaucracy.
Now, as a seasoned professor, Jordan is a connoisseur of art history without restitution.
Jordan studies the history of ob-jects because he said they are visual objects that can be used to under-stand the past.
He fi nds himself drawn to visual
and popular culture.“They’re not just reservoirs of
culture, but fountains of cultural identity for a particular time and place,” he said.
Jordan said one of his favorite paintings, “The Heart of the Andes” by Frederic Church, captured the cultural identity of 1856.
“For people of that time, it was the equivalent of Avatar,” he said. “People fl ocked to see it.”
Jordan, like many historians, fi nds it not only in-teresting, but vital to preserve history from the past.
Martha Jenkins, a retired fashion professor and his-torian, said that fashion is a re-fl ection of what’s happening in the world.
“It includes not only clothes, but household textiles and architecture,” Jenkins said. “Most anything you think about has a fashion of the day.”
Jenkins likes to study the details on fashion items to learn about the people that designed them.
She enjoys studying Dior and Givenchy originals, but those aren’t always available to study fi rsthand.
Jenkins said students don’t need a well-known museum to learn about history.
“A lot of colleges and universities have fabulous collections you can study,” she said.
The Kentucky Library and Mu-seum opened the exhibit, “Preserv-ing the Past, Sustaining the Future,” last Friday.
The exhibit is a quilt show that represents the 100-year history of the family and consumer sciences department.
Jordan challenges students to visit local museums and not rely on tech-nology to do historical research.
“Technology has opened up the realm of art to people who may not have ever seen a Rembrandt,” he said. “But it doesn’t take the place of the viewer in front of the art.”
The Fine Arts Gallery and cor-ridor on the second fl oor of FAC features rotating exhibitions once a month.
It currently houses an exhibit by Christopher Olszewski called “The Devil You Know,” which addresses the issue of urban landscape.
Jordan recommended that stu-dents take advantage of the librarians who are here solely to make histori-cal information available.
Visual Re-sources Li-brarian Nancy Richey said a librarian should be a historian’s best friend.
“Historians interpret and present his-tory,” she said. “ L i b r a r i a n s collect it so people can get
to it.”The Kentucky Library collects
artifacts dating back to the 15th cen-tury, including diaries or pages from the Quran.
Richey said a lot of donations come from the community because they believe it is valuable to the li-brary and students.
“We have things that people would throw away that students can use to study a time period,” she said.
Richey said she is concerned about how advancing technology will contribute to preserving impor-tant history.
“People don’t write letters any-more and pictures aren’t printed out,” she said. “Family history that’s on a fl oppy disk may be lost.”
As a historian and librarian, her mission is to capture information be-fore it’s lost and transport it to new technology for younger generations.
Richey said she also wants to break the mold of the typical librar-ian.
“I don’t wear my hair in a bun or go around shushing people,” she said. “I absolutely love my job and I want to get students excited about what we have to offer.”
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Cheryl Stevens, currently as-sociate dean of Scholarship and chemistry department chair at Xavier University of Louisiana, was named the new dean of Og-den College of Science and En-gineering last week.
Her selection comes on the heels of a search that lasted more than three months, starting when the current Ogden dean, Blaine Ferrell, announced his retire-ment in April.
David Lee, dean of Potter
College of Arts and Letters and head of the Ogden search com-mittee, said Stevens brings with her a “strong package.”
Stevens’ interpersonal skills, record in research grants and being student-orientated, as well as her administrative ex-perience, all factored into her being selected as the new dean, Lee said.
“I think Ogden College has a long history of science and achievement and I think she will build very skillfully on the foun-dation Blaine has laid,” Lee said.
Stevens was not one of the
original four fi nalists for the position and was selected as a fi nalist after former candidate George Miller withdrew from the race.
“It all seemed to turn out very well,” Lee said with a laugh.
Gordon Emslie, provost and vice-president for Academic Af-fairs, said the decision was not the “easiest” but he feels com-fortable with his selection.
“I feel good,” Emslie said. “I think the committee did well. I feel very pleased with the way the search went.”
Ferrell, who will enter tran-
sitional retirement at the end of December, was not involved in the search, but said he hopes to see the college continue to grow and have its quality of education continue to improve.
“Ten years is long enough for me,” Ferrell said. “I’m more of a sprinter, and I’ve been here for 34 years and I think it’s the right time. And I think the college and faculty need new energy.”
Stevens brings with her a strong record in securing grant funding. According to the WKU press release announcing her selection, Stevens has been in-
volved in more than $18 million in grant-funded projects since 1984.
Stevens fi rst joined Xavier’s faculty in 1982 as a member of the chemistry faculty and in 2005 became chair of the chem-istry department. In 2009, she was named associate dean of Scholarship.
She also works as an adjunct professor at the University of New Orleans and the Tulane University Health Sciences Cen-ter in New Orleans.
Stevens is slated to start on Jan. 23, 2012.
By JOANNA [email protected]
Stevens brings administrative experience to Ogden
Although she’s California-born, Wilson grew up in Bowl-ing Green and graduated from Greenwood High School. It all started after her fi fth grade teacher saw her in her fi rst play.
“She encouraged me to pur-sue it and got me to audition at the Public Theatre of Kentucky, where I fell in love with the art,” Wilson said.
Wilson has played in a vari-ety of productions ranging from “Snow White” and “Fiddler on the Roof” to “Grease” and “Ro-meo and Juliet.” She has been Snow White, Alice in Wonder-land and Juliet. Her face is on the books, “Stand By Me” and “Never Been Kissed.”
Wilson grew up learning from “incredibly talented direc-tors” at the Public Theatre of Kentucky.
However, Mike Wilson, Grace’s dad, is the one who in-troduced her to acting.
“He helps me push toward my dream every time I start to falter,” she said.
Mike Wilson also enjoys act-ing; he did so in high school and in community theatre. Both fa-ther and daughter have been in plays together.
From a young age, the Wil-sons knew that she had a natural gift for acting.
“She knew her lines and she knew everybody else’s lines too,” he said.
She will be cast in lead roles in the theatre and dance depart-ment’s Reveusicals and also in
Public Theatre of Kentucky’s “Our Town.”
She is enjoying the success from Chris Young’s video, and she may even be a movie dou-ble soon. Wilson said she feels like she has a tiny foot in the door but she wants more — she wants to get that one big break.
“There are times where things are really going great, and there’s times where there’s a dead period where there’s nothing. So it does get really discouraging, but I try to re-member how good it feels when I’m performing and when I’m in a show, you know, how good those good times are — and it’s worth it.”
When Wilson is not acting, she enjoys hobbies such as bow hunting for deer.
“I’m actually a pretty good
shot,” she said. Wilson also is in Kappa Delta
and said she never painted her-self as a sorority girl, but said it has been “the best college deci-sion” she has made so far.
“She’s not superfi cial,” Bart-ley said.
Bartley said even through all of Wilson’s success, she’s still the same person.
“Honestly, we don’t ever talk about her video stuff,” she said.
Wilson chose musical theatre as her major and would love to be in movies or to star on Broad-way. One day she hopes that she will be Christine in Phantom of the Opera.
“I think she gets faced with too many choices,” Mike Wil-son said.
Wilson said she gets over-whelmed just like other students.
“But I love being busy. I love always having something to do,” she said. “It’s all worth it. It’s hard trying to do it all, but there’s nothing I want to cut out so for now it’s going to be ex-tremely overwhelming.”
She advises her peers to fol-low their heart and do what makes them happy, no matter what others say.
“I’ve never been this happy just being able to do what I love,” Grace said. “And I know some people who come to col-lege, and they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s not practical,’ and so they do something else and they’re miserable.
“Even if it’s not practical, if you’ve been given a gift, you’ve been given that gift for a reason and I think you shouldn’t ever waste it.”
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TOPS To registering for classes and graduation.
BOTTOMS To former UK star Brandon Knight not playing in the game.
TOPSTo NBA players playing at WKU this week.
BOTTOMS To all the arrests made during Home-coming week.
BOTTOMS To having to meet with advisers.
TOPSTo winning a home game on Homecoming.
TOPSOPS
BOTTOMSOTTOMS&What would you say if I told you I stud-
ied, bonded and became friends with pris-oners over the course of this semester? Oh, and I volunteer driving to Nashville every Thursday evening in order to do this.
I bet you think I’m crazy, along with my classmates who study victimology once a week with incarcerated people at Lois De-Berry Special Needs Facility.
I can’t lie; the fi rst day of class appre-hension overwhelmed me. In my mind all I could think of was, “I’m about to shake hands and take class with murderers, sex offenders and drug dealers. What have I gotten myself into?”
But as the weeks have gone by, I’ve re-alized I got myself into a once in a lifetime, eye-opening class that will change me for-ever.
Every week we sit in a relatively large circle in what is normally used as a visi-tation room for the incarcerated men. We study the relationships between offenders and victims, offenders and society and vic-tims and society.
Along with countless other academic studies talked about, we also share our own personal views with each other.
Breaking down walls and talking about our own personal experiences didn’t take
long either.During one class session, two incarcer-
ated men admitted that they were in prison for murder, and you’d think that every nerve in my body would’ve tensed. But I was
shocking-ly com-f o r t a b l e and open to what they had to say.
E v e r y person in our class is human, d e s p i t e what you and the rest of so-
ciety might think. However, don’t get the idea that I’m condoning their crimes.
Even though some people in our class have committed crimes that have given them life sentences, they are still people with real feelings and lives.
You’d be surprised how much you could relate to someone who murdered or victimized someone because even though they committed crimes and live behind
bars, they still live their day-to-day lives with ups and downs just like us.
One day, one of the incarcerated men announced that his mother had passed away. We couldn’t help but hurt for him, because we all know what loss is like.
And like any classroom setting, there are mild disagreements about certain ideas concerning the topic of discussion, but in the end, we always respect and listen to one another’s opinions.
Out of my years at WKU, this class has shown me the most about life and that any-thing can happen. You could become a vic-tim when you least expect it, or you could get caught up being an offender.
These men have also taught me to value my education as well. They’ve said that Thursday nights are the highlights of their weeks because they enjoy learning and taking a college course.
It makes you step back and realize that sometimes we as college students can re-ally take our education for granted.
It’s extremely hard conveying the feel-ings and experiences I’ve received from taking this class because it’s so unique. But if you want to take the most interest-ing class of your life and it’s offered again, take it.
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SPENCER JENKINSScribbled [email protected]
My idea of Thursday nights: Prison
'White privilege an ubiquitous problem'Long story short, privilege
is a term often used to describe how things are easier for one group of people compared to another. I hope by now you have heard the term “white privilege,” because it is a ubiq-uitous problem that you cannot escape.
Here is a less-than-courte-ous example of white privilege: white privilege is why a bunch of spoiled, irresponsible self-indulgent and self-destructive white kids can become imme-diate celebrities (those rascals from Jersey), but if they were Black, Hispanic, or Asian the show would bomb.
Or, as Tim Wise once ob-served, white privilege is why Bristol Palin can have a child
out of wedlock and not be thought of as a deadbeat wel-fare mom.
One of the biggest obstacles in deconstructing white privi-lege is the rather immediate fear among some white people that their sacred way of life will be destroyed. Another obstacle is the anger some whites feel about being accused of having privilege.
You see, part of what makes privilege a privilege is that it tends to be invisible; people just accept it as is. Maybe white privilege would be less diffi cult to accept if we look at other types of privilege.
Think about male privilege: all the ways that men might be given an advantage in life sim-ply because they are male.
Men don’t have to be self-conscious about their weight. Some are, some choose to be,
but we have the privilege to not think about it. If I am a male and I get angry, I am often thought of as being independent or as-sertive. If I am a female and I get angry, I am often thought of as being a bitch.
Think about straight privi-lege: all the ways that straight people are less hassled and less challenged about their sexuali-ty. If I want to make out in pub-lic with my partner, I can, as long as we keep our clothes on. If I am gay or lesbian, I don’t have that privilege — at least not in this town. A straight kid gets to watch, listen and learn about dating from the people around him, the television, lit-erature, you name it. A gay kid has to imagine on his own what it must be like, or sneak infor-mation from trusted but rare sources.
If I am white, which I am, I
can pretty much walk anywhere on campus at night and not draw suspicion from the police. I can cheer the election results in which “my” candidate won and not have people think “we” are getting ready to riot.
If I am Hispanic, I have to put up with bean jokes; if I am Asian, I have to put up with math jokes, but if I am white I don’t have to put up with jokes about my race. Well, maybe the occasional “White people can’t dance.” Which is quite true for some of us. I know I can’t dance. But hey, I am a guy… I don’t have to be able to dance. Right? It’s called privilege.
So what is my point? Some-times I am not sure… but for now I am saying that privilege exists in many forms, and the point isn’t to feel guilty about privilege — just see how it
works against some people. And be aware that even peo-
ple with privilege can be op-pressed, denied or dismissed.
Reverse discrimination of-ten occurs as an effort to undo privilege (and no, two wrongs don’t make a right). You could even say that there are times when people of minority status have the advantage, though, honestly, this doesn’t happen often enough to offset the privi-lege of the political elite.
Each one of us has prob-ably been treated poorly due to someone else’s privilege. It’s time we see it for what it is and call it out. We all do it — some more than others — but it isn’t helping any of us in the long run.
This commentary doesn't nec-essarily represent the views of the Herald or the university.
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Friday, 10/28Soccer vs. Middle Tennessee, 6 p.m., WKU Soccer ComplexVolleyball vs. Denver, 7 p.m., Diddle ArenaThe Symphony Keyboard Carnival, 8 p.m., Van Meter
Saturday, 10/292011 Kentucky Music Edu- cators Association State Marching Band Champi- onships, 11 a.m., Smith StadiumFall Super Studies, 9:30 p.m., Various LocationsCross Country Sun Belt
Conference Champion- ships, 10 a.m., Kereiakes ParkVolleyball vs. North Texas, 1 p.m., Diddle Arena
Sunday, 10/30Chess Tournament, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Garrett BallroomNASA's Year of the So-
lar System, 2 p.m., Hardin PlanetariumStudent Recital with Katy Cardwell, Kelsi Hipley and Molly Nance, 3 p.m., FAC recital hall
Monday, 10/31HRL Retention Series Work- shops, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., DUC 340HauntedWeen Film Pre-
miere, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., South Lawn
Tuesday, 11/1Hatcher Modern Language Lecture Series: Changing Lives through Soccer, Span- ish and Service by Jason Old, 4 p.m., Garrett AuditoriumThoughts on Pop Lecture Ser- ies featuring Rooted in Re-
ligion: Southern Roots Music and the Christ-Haunted South by Dr. Clay Motley and Really Odd Couples: The Hollywood Tendency to Pair Gorgeous Ac- tresses with Schlubby Actors by Dr. Molly McCaffrey, 4 p.m., Faculty HouseNASA's Year of the So- lar System, 7 p.m., Hardin Planetarium
66 OCTOBER 28, 2011COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD
Senior Elizabeth Nethaway works at the Prince Hookah Lounge and has observed the habits of smokers.
The Alliance, Neb., native said smokers wait to light up until they are next to someone who is also smoking.
“It’s something you got in common,” Nethaway said. “‘Hey, can I bum a lighter? Sure, let’s talk about some-thing.’ It’s a real good way to strike up a conversation and make new friends.”
She added that she smokes the most when she is at work.
Nethaway said that her par-ents smoke and she always felt comfortable around smokers. She started smoking last No-vember because the people she
was around were smoking. “I tried one and liked it,” she
said.The same social aspect of
smoking can make it harder for a smoker trying to quit.
“If you are around a bunch of smokers and trying to quit, it is harder,” Nethaway said. “If one person lights up a ciga-rette, everyone lights up.”
Nethaway also said that she smokes more when she is around other people.
“I don’t smoke much by my-self,” she said.
Nethaway, who is now try-ing to quit, said that she doesn’t smoke around her boyfriend at all because he isn’t a smoker.
Louisville junior Jasmine Taylor started smoking when she was a senior in high school.
“My friends smoked and that’s when we all started
drinking and those go hand in hand,” Taylor said.
Taylor said that she isn’t a heavy smoker, going through a pack in two weeks.
“There is defi nitely a social aspect, when there is nothing to do, people are like, ‘Oh you want to smoke a cigarette?’” Taylor said.
Taylor said that she smokes more in a group and rarely by herself.
Matt Whitman, a senior from Austin, Texas, said that he started smoking his fresh-man year of college.
“Sure, I smoke more fre-quently when I’m around people,” he said. “I would say that if you talk to other people, I’d be willing to place money they say that they smoke more when other people are smok-ing.”
“We have a $78 million debt on the residence halls, so we need to keep them full,” he said. “It takes money to do and upkeep the kind of renovations that we have.”
Kuster also said WKU requires fresh-men and sophomores to live on campus because it aids in retention.
“We have research here of our own here at the university that students that live here on campus graduate at a higher rate than students that don’t,” Kuster said. “They stay in school at a higher rate than students that don’t live on campus, so there’s educational value to it.”
President Gary Ransdell has said the passage of the tobacco ban would require approval from not just SGA, but the Uni-versity Senate and Staff Council as well. Ransdell even visited the SGA meeting on Oct. 4 to clarify WKU’s position on the necessity of its on-campus housing re-quirement.
Ransdell said WKU is taking steps to ensure that students who wish to live on campus — upperclassmen and under-classmen — can do so in the future.
“What we’re doing is building more residence halls for upper-class students
which will open up beds for incoming new students,” Ransdell said in reference to future apartment-style dorms on Ken-tucky Street.
Kuster said many of the complaints against the requirement should really be addressed to the students themselves, particularly upperclassmen holding onto campus housing contracts through much of the summer.
“That’s why we end up in the sum-mer time in a crunch because we’ve got students that say they’re going to live on campus and then decide not to at the last minute,” Kuster said. “We have more and more students that wait and make a deci-sion later on and holding a space that we can’t give to an incoming student.”
Though the SGA resolution does in-clude the housing requirement, Egerer said the resolution was not intended to de-velop a position for or against the require-ment itself.
“We understand why that requirement is in place because WKU has a lot of ground to cover to reimburse the debt that comes from renovating residence halls,” Egerer said.
“Students live on campus. It doesn’t make sense to tell somebody, ‘You have to live on campus for two years — you have to — but you can’t use tobacco when you’re of age.’”
The resolution states that the senate believes a tobacco-free campus would be “in the best interest of the health, safety and welfare of the WKU faculty, staff and students.”
University Senate chair Kelly Mad-ole said this is currently the only offi cial senate position on the matter.
In order for the issue to be reevalu-ated, Madole said a committee or indi-vidual senate member would have to bring it up.
“If no one is interested in taking up the issue again, I don’t think the senate will have another resolution,” Madole said.
Following the resolution from the senate, Ransdell said he requested a recommendation from the Staff Council and the SGA.
Staff Council chair Diane Carver said the council voted in February against a smoke-free campus.
Carver said they have continued to talk about the issue, but no other mo-tions have been brought forth since February.
Many members of the staff smoke, Carver said, and the council felt it would
be going against their rights to ban smoking on campus, especially those who work from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and can’t get away from campus.
“I don’t see us changing it until pos-sibly when SGA changes their views,” Carver said. “But each year we vote new members in and members go out. It could change.”
SGA passed a resolution in Septem-ber that would make WKU a tobacco-free campus only if WKU lifts the re-quirement for freshmen and sophomores to live on campus.
Ransdell said if all three groups ever come together on a shared recommenda-tion, he would be “happy to receive it.”
However, Ransdell said he didn’t know whether or not the issue would go before the Board of Regents.
“I’m not sure I want the Board ap-proving a policy that is not enforce-able,” Ransdell said. “I would have to see the recommendation and go from there.”
Ransdell emphasized that WKU al-ready has a smoking ban in all campus buildings.
There is no timeline on the issue, he said, and he is just waiting for an agree-ment from the three groups.
“It could be next month, or it could be fi ve years,” he said.
Students smoke socially at work, schoolBy MACIENA [email protected]
JERRY ENGLEHART JR/HERALD
Louisville senior Zack Martin passes back the lighter he borrows from Lewisport junior Ilea Schneider outside of the Snell Hall. "There is nothing good about it," said Martin about social smoking. "I've only been smoking for three months. One turned into a pack." Schneider started smoking at age 15 because her dad smoked, but she wishes she could quit.
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WKU’s home match-es this weekend against Denver and North Texas are more than just impor-tant conference matches.
This weekend is the last time in Diddle Arena for the Lady Toppers’ two senior middle hit-ters, Tiffany Elmore and Lindsay Williams.
“I’m just going to try and give it all I’ve got because it’s the last time I’m going to be able to play in Diddle,” Wil-liams said. “I’m just go-ing to do the best I can and end with a bang.”
Elmore also said it’s
important for WKU (23-3 regular season, 10-1 Sun Belt Conference) to close its home season on a high note.
She said she hopes to put on a show for every-one in the stands.
“It’s my last time playing in Diddle, the last time I get to play with my teammates in Diddle, and the last time I get to play in front of the community,” Elmore said. “It’s kind of bitter-sweet.”
Finishing strong is a top priority for the Lady Toppers. WKU is cur-rently tied for first in the Sun Belt East Division with Middle Tennessee
State, who handed the Lady Toppers their only conference loss this sea-son.
The two teams will meet again in Murfrees-boro, Tenn., on Nov. 11, the last match on WKU’s schedule.
Head Coach Travis Hudson said it’s impor-tant to get wins at the end of the year to finish strong.
“We’re in a race for a conference champi-onship,” he said. “We have to continue to pile on wins and hopefully make that match against Middle Tennessee in the end matter.”
The matches this
weekend are also es-pecially significant for Hudson. He stands just one win away from his 400th career victory.
Hudson has com-piled a 399-175 career record in his 17 seasons as WKU volleyball head coach and said the mile-stone is a credit to the athletes that have played for the school.
“I’ve just been very fortunate to have great kids that have come here and done the right things and believed in what we’re doing,” he said. “You look up one day and all of the sudden you’re close to some-thing like this and it’s a
pretty neat deal.”The Lady Toppers
will take on Denver at 7 p.m. Friday and will face North Texas at noon to-morrow.
Elmore said she ex-pects a lot of crowd support during her final home matches.
“We’ve had great community support and really great student sup-port so I expect it to be live and loud and ener-getic just like it always is,” she said.
Several home matches have had big crowds this season, including an at-tendance of 1,523 for a match against Florida In-ternational Oct. 15 dur-
ing Hilltopper Hystera.“There have been
some large crowds in Diddle this year — crowds that I have not been used to see-ing,” sophomore setter Melanie Stutsman said. “They’ve been great though.”
Williams said she hopes the Lady Toppers step up during her last home matches this week-end.
“We’re just trying to beat whoever comes at us,” she said. “It doesn’t really matter who it is or what they’re ranked, we’re just trying to give everyone the same kind of effort.”
Seniors Elmore, Williams looking to 'end with a bang'By LUCAS [email protected]
VOLLEYBALL
The Interfraternity Council passed, with 12 to 2 vote, a revision to its bylaws on Monday to shift the responsibility of recruitment patrol from the executive board to the judicial board.
The revision was due in large part to com-plaints by fraternity members who said they were being unequally represented under the Executive Board’s over-sight of recruitment pa-trol, according to Blake Lambert, the vice presi-dent of IFC judicial af-fairs.
Only some fraternities have positions on the ex-ecutive board, whereas every chapter has repre-sentation on the judicial board.
“Some fraternities thought we were picking on them,” Lambert said.
IFC President John Hughes said the revision would help to build trust between the IFC and the fraternities, which he said had been strained over the last few years.
“I feel like this is a big step towards estab-lishing that connection,” he said.
In September, Pi Kappa Alpha and Delta Tau Delta fraternities had Homecoming pair-ings revoked in a ruling by the IFC judicial board after being found guilty of throwing recruitment parties where alcohol was present.
IFC bylaws call the presence of alcohol at re-cruitment parties a “ma-jor offense” and after a third violation, the issue
will be sent to the uni-versity Judicial Office.
The new revision puts accountability into the hands of the fraternities themselves, Hughes said.
Alissa Mansfield, the coordinator of student activities for Greek af-fairs, said the revision will not substantially change the implementa-tion of patrolling. It is primarily meant to make sure the process is fair.
“We want to make sure all of the fraterni-ties’ interests are looked at,” she said.
The new bylaws will go into effect in January before spring recruit-ment starts, Mansfield said.
According to the re-vision, the intent of the patrol board is to “ensure the quality of recruit-ment for potential new
members and fraternal organizations.”
The board’s task is to
“patrol on and off cam-pus recruitment activi-ties of fraternal organi-zations” and report any violations of the IFC bylaws. The board will
meet once before and once after the recruit-ment process and will meet if the vice president of recruitment and vice president of judicial af-fairs calls the board.
Lambert said mem-bers of the judicial board will now be tasked with patrolling parties based on tips from identified sources. Hughes said the patrol board will have a particular set of guide-lines and will attend ev-ery recruitment event.
However, Hughes em-phasized that the focus of the IFC is not to patrol the fraternities, but rath-er to help them in their goals.
“I feel like that’s been lost over the years,” Hughes said.
The revision states that complaints will be handled as per IFC con-
stitutional procedures. In order to find a fra-ternity guilty, two IFC council members must witness the infraction, or there must be “suffi-cient” evidence to prove the infraction to be true, according to IFC bylaws.
Members of accused fraternities cannot par-ticipate in the delib-erations regarding their charges.
Lambert said the revi-sion is a positive develop-ment because it will pre-vent “blame games” by fraternities that are caught violating the bylaws.
For Hughes, this re-vision is one of the first steps in fulfilling his rea-son for running for IFC president.
“I want to show people that things can change for the better,” he said.
IFC changes recruitment control bylawsBy TYLER [email protected]
I want to show people that things can change for the better."
—John HughesIFC President
77OCTOBER 28, 2011 COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD
■ SPORTS BRIEF WKU fares well in latest NCAA Graduation report
WKU had six sports post a 100 percent graduation rate in the latest NCAA Gradu-ation Success Rate Report, which was re-leased Tuesday.
The 15 sports programs at WKU com-bined for an 80 percent graduation rate — the second highest in the Sun Belt Confer-ence, trailing only Denver.
WKU’s six sports that posted a perfect 100% graduation success rate were men’s basketball, men’s golf, men’s tennis, wom-en’s swimming, women’s soccer, and vol-
leyball. Additionally, WKU had a graduation suc-
cess rate of 70 percent or better in 10 of the university’s 15 sports programs measured by the NCAA.
The Graduation Success Rates are based on the four entering freshmen classes in Di-vision I from 2001-02 through 2004-05.
The NCAA calculates the rates based upon the number of athletes who gradu-ate in addition to those who left WKU before graduating but would have been academically eligible to compete.
— COLE CLAYBOURN
The unit has come a long way since Tag-gart called for improved offensive line play following WKU’s season-opening 14-3 loss to Kentucky.
Junior tight end Jack Doyle said more on-fi eld communication has led to better results for the offensive line.
“It’s just talking out there out on the fi eld,” he said. “We can regurgitate things in meet-ings, back to (offensive line coach Walt) Wells, but it’s just getting some play under our belt and talking and playing together.”
There’s been a mix of veteran experience and new blood within the unit.
On the veteran side, senior left tackle Wes Jeffries and junior right guard Adam Smith have been around the program for awhile.
Jeffries, a four-year starter, was recently named a Midseason First-team All-Sun Belt selection by college football analyst Phil Steele.
Meanwhile sophomore left guard Luis Polanco and redshirt freshman right tackle Cameron Clemmons have solidifi ed starting spots early in their careers.
Clemmons, who stands 6-foot-6 and weighs 291 pounds, has seen more playing time in recent weeks, fi lling a spot formerly held by junior Seth White.
Sophomore center Sean Conway said he’s been impressed with Clemmons’ develop-ment during his fi rst year on the fi eld.
“Cameron is a great player and he really knows the offense,” Conway said. “He still makes freshman mistakes, but we all have.”
Clemmons and the rest of the Topper line will take part in a strength-on-strength matchup when they play Louisiana-Monroe (2-5,1-2 Sun Belt Conference) on the road at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
ULM gives up just 100.3 rushing yards per game, by far the lowest total in the Sun Belt.
By contrast WKU rushes for 164.4 yards per game, the second-highest total in the league.
“They’re fast and physical. It’ll be a great challenge,” Conway said of the Warhawk de-fense. “What we want to do is run the ball, as everyone knows. So it’s a great challenge to pound it to them.”
A win for WKU would put the Toppers at 4-1 in Sun Belt play and just two wins from bowl eligibility.
Conway said the Toppers’ front fi ve aren’t concerned about an emotional letdown against ULM coming off last week’s home win.
“Our offensive line, we just stay cool,” Conway said. “We never get too high or never get too low. We keep doing what we’re doing, stick to the game plan.”
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Winchester, along with several other players on the red team, said they hope this type of an event becomes an annual outing, be it against UK players or just players from Kentucky in general.
Rogers didn’t say for certain whether
or not he’d personally organize other similar events, but said this one ranked right up there with “The Shot” in his all-time memories at WKU.
“Not just playing in the game, but these last few days getting to spend time with guys that we’ve been best friends there,” he said. “That’s what it’s all about to me — bringing all the guys back, even the guys that are older.”
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“This is a great opportunity to see some outstanding runners,” Long said. “The Sun Belt is blessed. Everybody has somebody who is good. There should be some great racing on Saturday and some hard-fought battles.”
Each of the 11 teams can run eight competitors, but teams only need to run fi ve to score.
“We want to go out there and meet our opponent,” freshman Peter Okwera said. “They could be strong and they could be good but we are going to run well.”
Last year, the Trojans from Little Rock placed three runners in the top ten.
This year, WKU hopes to put up similar statistics.
“We need a strong push by our top three and a very strong competitive ef-fort out of the rest of our scoring posi-tions,” Long said. “There will be fi ve or six people in the lead pack and hopefully three will be ours.”
The runners said they’re confi dent.“We want to win and we will,” junior
Landon Taylor said. “Everybody has their mind right and their body right and it’s going to be a good day.”
Long believes that if the runners concen-trate on a great race, they will be successful.
“Our people are looking to have qual-ity races,” Long said. “If someone comes out and beats us, we want to make sure they’ve earned it.”
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“It will show them that we deserve to go farther than the fi rst round of the tournament and that we can beat them,” she said. “I think that will give everyone a lot of confi dence going into the next game, showing them we can win and make it farther than we did last year.”
Head Coach Jason Neidell has been stressing all year that the regular season
is there to prepare the team for postsea-son play. Now, with only one game left and a spot secured in the tournament, he said the team just needs to get a few things in order.
“I think the team chemistry is a lot better (than past teams),” he said. “This team has been more consistent in its work ethic day in and day out in both training and in games. I think that if we finish the chances that we create we can go from a good team to a great team.”
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WKUHERALD .COM
COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD • Vol. 87, No. 17 • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY 10.28.11
The WKU offensive line broke a self-assigned vow of silence Saturday after beating Louisiana-Lafayette.
The group said before the season it wouldn’t conduct interviews with media until the Toppers broke a home losing streak that dated back to 2008.
Head Coach Willie Taggart said the men up front have themselves to thank for ending that streak Saturday at Smith Stadium.
The WKU line helped the Toppers rush for 234 yards that day in the 42-23 win.
“Our offensive line played its best ballgame and I think that’s a big reason why we got the results we did,” Taggart said.
Solid play up front has coincided with the team’s fi rst three-game win streak since 2007, and a 3-1 league re-cord at the halfway mark of Sun Belt Conference play.
With only one game left in the regular season, WKU has already secured its spot in next week’s Sun Belt Tournament. Now, the Lady Toppers look to improve upon their projected fifth seed.
WKU will enter Friday night’s show-down with Middle Tennessee State one spot below the Lady Raiders in the Sun Belt Con-ference standings. If WKU wins, it will take MTSU’s fourth seed for the tournament. If the team loses or ties, they will more than likely still receive the fifth spot.
Either way, it’s likely that WKU will play MTSU in the first-round of the tournament next Wednesday in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Last year MTSU beat the Lady Toppers twice, including a shootout victory in the semifinals of last year’s tournament. WKU is 2-4-5 lifetime against MTSU. This year, the seniors want to go out with a big win over their rival on their senior night.
“I have a lot of emotion from the game
from last year,” senior forward Lindsey Goad said. “Just the feeling of revenge and not losing at home is really important to me for our last conference game.”
The two teams will square off at 6 p.m. Friday at the WKU Soccer Complex. The Lady Toppers have never been defeated by MTSU at home. Seniors Libby Stout, Lind-say Williams, Lindsey Goad, Mallory Out-erbridge, Kelsey Meyer, Kaylyn Pratt and Amanda Buechel will be honored before the game.
For senior and midfielder Kelsey Meyer, the game Friday night is a way to get the team ready for the tournament and, more than likely, MTSU again.
“The Middle game is just really impor-tant,” she said. “So just getting that first win will give us confidence for the second game against them.”
Goad said the game on Friday will help to set the tone for the tournament.
WKU faces MTSU, hopes to improve seedingBy AUSTIN [email protected]
MICHAEL RIVERA/HERALD
Senior forward Lindsey Goad practices at the WKU Soccer Complex Wednesday before the game against Middle Tennessee today. The women’s soccer team is 11-6-1 this season.
By BRAD [email protected]
Off ensive line steps up during winning streak
SEE CHANCE, PAGE 7
SEE LINE, PAGE 7
Tuesday night provided a walk down memory lane for those don-ning red in the “Big Red vs. Big Blue” alumni game at Diddle Are-na.
It was a chance for former WKU players to run through the tunnel and onto the fl oor in front of fans one more time.
“I had butterfl ies the whole time — on my way over here, getting dressed, then running out there,” said former Topper and current Houston Rocket Courtney Lee. “Being under those bright lights in Diddle, it felt good.”
It was a rare opportunity for fans to see past WKU players square off against past Kentucky players in a charity game that featured four NBA players and four starters from WKU’s 2008 Sweet 16 team.
Former Topper Ty Rogers or-ganized the event to benefi t the WKU W-Club and Sharp Shooters Academy — a youth foundation he and former Topper Anthony Win-chester help operate.
Once the game itself started, the product on the fl oor resembled what fans might have seen during the 2008 season from the Toppers.
Lee threw an alley-oop to Jere-my Evans early on in the fi rst quar-ter to set the tone for a game that featured a lot of three-pointers and a lot of dunks — many of which came from Evans.
Then Lee caught fi re — much like he did throughout his career at WKU. He led all scorers with 36 points, including four made three-pointers.
Former UK star and 2011 NBA Lottery pick Brandon Knight, who was scheduled to play for the blue team until he suffered an ankle sprain in a charity game last night, coached the blue team.
The red team walked away with a 112-97 win over the blue team. Lee was happy the players could provide some high-fl ying dunks and entertainment for the fans.
“In a game like this, that’s what they come to see — excitement, having fun,” Lee said. “We just wanted to get out there give (the fans) a good time.”
Rogers said he was thrilled with the way the event came together af-ter just a little more than two weeks of planning.
“The greatest thing is that it seemed like a great experience for these fans,” he said. “Being with the guys that we were together with for four years — just being with them was a great experience. We all had a pretty amazing feel-ing when we ran out of that tunnel again. It kind of brings back all
kinds of memories.”One of those memories was
Rogers’ buzzer-beater in the fi rst round of the 2008 NCAA Tourna-ment which sent WKU past Drake and eventually to the Sweet 16.
When asked if he and Tyrone Brazelton, who started for the red team, would consider recreating “The Shot,” Rogers said the idea of that had been brought up several times.
“I think I only need to shoot that one once,” he said. “People need to remember that the right way.”
WKU’s cross country teams are the league favor-ites going into the Sun Belt Conference Champion-ships at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kereiakes Park.
Head Coach emeritus Curtiss Long said the teams aren’t doing anything differently to prepare for the meet.
“We want to enter the meet healthy and we want to run well,” Long said. “If we have those two factors, the race will take care of itself.”
The Lady Toppers are credited with the longest conference winning streak in the nation with 17 con-secutive cross country and track titles. The men’s team is looking to capture its first cross country title since 2008.
Slated alongside WKU in the top three are defend-ing men’s champion Arkansas-Little Rock and Mid-dle Tennessee State.
By MERCEDES [email protected]
WKU favored to win Sun Belt championships
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CROSS COUNTRY
FOOTBALLBIG RED VS. BIG BLUE GAME
CHRIS WILSON/HERALD
Former WKU guard Courtney Lee went up for a between-the-legs dunk Tues-day during the "Big Red vs. Big Blue" game at Diddle Arena. A group of former WKU players beat former Kentucky players, 112-97.
Alumni game welcomes home former men's basketball playersBy COLE [email protected]
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SOCCER
follow @wkuheraldsportsfor updates on Saturday's gameWKU vs. Louisiana-Monroe
