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BY KAE [email protected]

The Board of Regents will see a fa-miliar face in the regent’s room at its meeting on Oct. 31.

Barbara Burch will fi ll the seat left by former Faculty Regent Patti Minter at the end of this month. Minter is step-ping down after serving seven years on the Board.

Burch is currently the provost emer-ita and a professor in the School of Teacher Education.

“I felt it was an honor to be asked by faculty to consider that position,” she said. “I hadn’t thought about doing it… I’m pleased with the opportunity to represent the faculty.”

She ran unopposed in the election, which took place Oct. 15. Her election and the election process as a whole was met with debate after potential nominees declined nomination, but some faculty are saying the potential nominees were disqualifi ed.

Some who declined nominations did so on the basis that several policies, including state statute KRS 164.360 and WKU Human Resources Policy 4.2303, render them ineligible for the position as they have family, spouses or partners employed at WKU.

KRS 164.360 states specifi cally in section two that “no person shall be employed at an institution where his relative serves on the board of regents for that institution.”

Human Resources Policy 4.2303 states in the policy and procedure sec-tion, in part A, that “no person shall be employed at the university if his or her relative or domestic partner serves on the Board of Regents.”

The purpose of Policy 4.2303, ac-cording to the policy itself, is to create and sustain a work environment with respected, fairly treated employees. It states that relationships between em-ployees are prohibited from having one party of the relationship hold a position that can infl uence personnel-related issues, such as salary, promo-tion and performance review.

Jennifer Hanley, Faculty Senate vice chair, said the Senate Executive Com-mittee followed the Human Resources policy, the State Statute and the elec-tion codes outlined in the Faculty Handbook “to the letter.”

BY AARON [email protected]

The savory scent of South American food fi lled The Fresh Food Company in Downing Student Union Tuesday night.

Aramark’s Executive Chef Gilbert Holts was one of many working to provide students with a taste of Ec-uadorian culture. Holts described food as “kind of a universal language.”

“You know, we all cook the same food,” Holts said. “It’s just different kinds of spices, different kinds of seasonings.”

Students sampled exotic dishes such as seco de pol-lo, a dish featuring chicken, rice and plantains, and llapingachos, cheesy fried potatoes, at Choose Your Own Adventure: A Night in Ecuador. After dinner, at-tendees listened to a student’s Study Abroad story, tested their Ecuadorian knowledge in a trivia round and got the chance to win a Study Abroad scholar-

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Students get a taste of Ecuadorian culture

JAKE POPE/HERALDDanville junior Lauren Bailes signs the $150 Study Abroad applica-tion waiver that Clarksville, Tennessee freshman Mahesan Kumara-velu won at the Choose Your Own Adventure: A Night in Ecuador.

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BY LEAH [email protected]

Over the next six months, 39 single-occupancy restrooms across campus will be transformed into all-gender rest-rooms.

Chief Diversity Offi cer Richard Miller said the idea was suggested by a student to the administration.

Chief Facilities Offi cer Bryan Russell said, “We are look-ing at signage to make some changes that would accom-modate all users of these restrooms.”

These restrooms are for anyone who needs privacy, Rus-sell said. The restrooms are located in buildings such as the Honors College, Gatton Academy, the Music Rehearsal Hall and Downing Student Union.

The restrooms themselves will remain the same, only their signs will change.

“In the DSU facility…they had put an all-family desig-nation (sign) on that restroom, but really was implying that anybody could use that restroom,” Russell said. “It has a changing table, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, but what’s

important is that it’s private and it’s a single-occupancy restroom.”

Russell is reaching out to WKU’s professional architects for their opinion on how to provide signage for all of the restrooms. Before the restrooms change, WKU must get a recommendation from the architects and order new signs for the bathrooms.

“The better question is, what is the right naming for the bathrooms? What would most people prefer?” Russell said. “It’s going to help all of us.”

A survey will be sent out to students before the sign change about their preference for the name of the sign.

The new signage will also include if the restroom is acces-sible to those with disabilities.

The topic of gender-neutral bathrooms was briefl y dis-cussed during a Student Government Association meeting earlier this semester. Although the change was not specially pushed by SGA as a whole, SGA President Nicki Taylor said she was looking forward to the changes.

“I personally am very excited about it,” she said. “I know this is something that has been talked about a lot."

Single-occupancy restrooms to be renamedall-gender

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CORrection-ship, among other prizes.

The event is just one of many offered by WKU during its Inter-national Year of Ecuador. This is the program’s fi rst year. South Africa will be next year.

Andrea Cheney, coordinator of International Programs, said the purpose of the series is to share cultural experiences with students who haven’t studied abroad.

“Study Abroad is one of the best ways for students to learn about other cultures and perspectives, but if they can’t or they don’t have the inclination to do that, this is a way of bringing the world to them one country at a time,” Cheney said.

Louisville senior Gracie Peter shared anecdotes from her four-

day trip into Yasuni National Park, which is a part of the Amazon rain-forest.

Peter told her story in choose-your-own-adventure style by ask-ing students to pick what actually happened during her experience in Yasuni National Park from a list of choices, such as eating lemon plants and their guide putting a butterfl y to sleep. After students voted, she would reveal the cor-rect choice.

Following Peter’s story, organiz-ers drew names of students from a raffl e offering door prizes and a shot at a $150 Study Abroad scholarship to get the application fee waived.

Clarksville, Tennessee fresh-man Mahesan Kumaravelu won the scholarship.

“Now that I have this I might decide to do something with it,” he said.

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“Everything was completely above board and completely done by the books,” Margaret Crowder, senate chair, said. “Regardless of this discus-sion, there’s only one person who ac-cepted the nomination.”

This did not stop a a fl urry of emails, letters and other form of communica-tion coming in to debate the statutes and policies used.

“I really understand the nepotism thing,” Molly Kerby, a professor in the department of diversity and com-munication, said. “At some point, you can’t keep recusing yourself of votes if someone you’re related to works on campus, or your spouse or your part-ner.”

Kerby was one of the faculty mem-bers who declined nomination based on the statute and policy.

“My partner is a faculty member, too” she said. “I would (serve) if I could, but I can’t.”

Kerby, who is also the representa-tive for the Coalition of Senate Faculty Leadership, said the state statute is not really clear and several universities are requesting informal decisions.

She and other members of CSFL across the state are trying to fi nd ways to have clear statutes and HR policies to prevent issues like this from arising.

Another nominee, mathematics pro-

fessor Claus Ernst, declined his nomi-nation based on the same policies. Ernst said that throughout the election nomination process, many brought other interpretations of the state stat-ute and HR policy to light.

“I think the SEC had a choice and that’s to stick with one interpretation,” he said.

Ernst said in an email on Sept. 30 to Hanley that, based on the policies and his own interpretation of them, he could not accept the nomination. However, should the SEC change pol-icy or “see this any different,” he would still be interested in a regent nomina-tion.

Hanley took the email to the special SEC meeting held on Oct. 1 and came back with the response that the SEC de-cided the nomination “confl icted with university policy and state statute.”

Two informal opinions were pro-vided by the offi ce of Attorney General Jack Conway, both based on similar situations at Eastern Kentucky Univer-sity. One opinion provided an account of a student regent that was allowed to serve despite her parents being em-ployed at the university.

An opinion was also requested by General Counsel Deborah Wilkins near the time of former Student Gov-ernment Association President Keyana Boka’s election regarding her serving on the board despite her mother being employed at WKU.

“You can write the AG and ask them to give you an opinion on how to inter-pret Kentucky law,” Wilkins said.

Wilkins said the informal opinions were introduced to add to the existing discussion of the statute and HR policy.

“It shows a consistency on the part of the AG about how they’re going to in-terpret the statute,” she said “My feel-ing was at the time that, if there were people who were interested in running or willing to be nominated who had a relative working here, they should be allowed to run and if elected, we could seek an opinion just like we did in these three cases and I was confi dent the answer would be the same.”

Crowder said in an email that legal counsel was sought to discuss this opinion.

After that, she received an email re-garding the informal opinion from Wilkins that said “the issue in each request letter was limited to one uni-versity each time, and one ‘class’ of elected regent.”

“Those letters are issued to one uni-versity at a time and one elected regent, one offi ce, so it didn’t apply to Western Kentucky University,” Crowder said.

Boka was also brought up as an ex-ample. Boka was allowed to serve de-spite her mother being employed in the Child Care Center.

Crowder said, however, that this situ-ation was not applicable because it dealt with a specifi c class of regent, a

student, in this case.“There was nothing that was there

that we could use legally to say one,we’re going to go against state statuteto do this and two, regardless, that wewould go against internal HR policy,”she said.

Ernst said the best way to handlethe issue would have been to pushthe election back until the argumentsand confl icts surrounding it couldbe resolved. In order to remain in ac-cordance with the Faculty Handbook,however, he recognized they could notpostpone the election.

“I don’t think (Faculty Senate) actedunreasonably,” Ernst said.

In response to the faculty regentelection debates and to the prevail-ing voices calling for a clear interpre-tation of the state statute, the Coun-cil on Post Secondary Education requested a formal opinion from theAttorney General that would addressKRS 164.360 (2), prohibiting a person to be employed at the same institu-tion, and KRS 164.321 (6), (7) and (8),dealing with other qualifi cations and procedures for faculty regent elec-tion.

“The CPE polled all the universities,we all agreed that (the statute) need-ed to be clarifi ed. Going forward, weneed the clarity one way or the other,”Wilkins said.

There is no offi cial deadline for whenthe formal opinion will be announced.

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Pecha Kucha provides variety of opportunityBY ANDREW [email protected]

The Kentucky Museum is hosting an event that Christy Spurlock, education curator for the Kentucky Museum, said is a mix of open mic and happy hour, but without the booze.

On Oct. 27, students, faculty and members of the community will be able to attend Pecha Kucha, an event that has roots that stretch all the way back to Tokyo, Japan. At the event, people can do a presentation or per-formance on any topic they choose.

Pecha Kucha was created by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture in 2003, and the fi rst Pecha Kucha was held by them in Tokyo.

Pecha Kucha derives from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation, or

“chit chat.” And Spurlock said that’s ex-actly what performers do.

“The presentational format of this is to have 20 slides and have each slide shown for 20 seconds,” she said. “Once the slides start, the presenter has to go along with the fl ow of it.”

Spurlock said she fi rst came across Pecha Kucha online back in 2012. When she found it, there were Pecha Kucha events in more than 500 cities worldwide. This number has now in-creased to more than 700.

Spurlock hosted the fi rst Pecha Ku-cha in Bowling Green on Sept. 25, 2012 and she has continued to do so since.

“Pecha Kucha is about getting cre-ative people together and spreading their ideas to others. It’s also about teaching people that if you’re passion-ate about something, then you can

convey it,” she said.Spurlock said the event is also an

educational experience. She described how the Pecha Kucha experience gives the performers the opportunity to learn how to convey points to people, not just read at them.

“The performers learn how to edu-cate and to entertain their audience,” she said.

There are nine people signed up to speak at Pecha Kucha this coming Monday. They include students, pro-fessors and other faculty members.

One person who will be performing is Salvisa junior Kirsten Kellersberger. She will also help Spurlock host the event.

Kellersberger will speak about Hal-loween and the origins that surround the holiday. She said more work goes

into preparing a Pecha Kucha than people might think.

“There’s a lot of research into your topic that’s involved. You are basically doing a speech, but you really have to practice so what you’re saying lines up with the correct pictures,” she said.

Kellersberger also said she might use the Pecha Kucha presentation format in future classes.

This will be Kellersberger’s fi rst time attending a Pecha Kucha, but she said that from what she’s experienced sole-ly from the preparation, it’s a great op-portunity.

“You can literally pick any topic you want and I had a hard time narrowing down topics,” she said.

Pecha Kucha is free to the public. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with pre-sentations starting at 7 p.m.

‘Ask in the Dark’ provides sexual awareness for studentsBY SHANTEL-ANN [email protected]

Students were able to get their ques-tions about sex and relationships, no matter how extreme, answered Tues-day night.

The Housing and Residence Life Programming Committee present-ed “Ask in the Dark” on Tuesday in Downing Student Union.

The event was designed for students to ask questions about sex, relation-ships and anything else that falls into those categories.

Patricia Satterwhite, residence hall director for WKU Apartments, said HRL has put together programs about sexual awareness in the past.

Sharminic Washington, residence hall director of Rodes-Harlin Hall, said, “We continue to collaborate with the experts to inform students on sexual awareness and anything along those lines as much as possible.”

Satterwhite asked Elizabeth Madar-iaga, sexual assault services coordinator for the Counseling and Testing Center, and Kathryn Steward, assistant direc-tor of Health Education, to participate in the event. Both women have educa-tional experience in sexual assault and health.

“Students feel more comfortable with these two because they’ve done programs like this before,” Satterwhite

said. About 30 students attended the fo-

rum. As the students arrived, they were asked to write their questions on a piece of paper and then put them in a basket.

“Answering questions in this fashion makes students feel more comfortable when talking about sex,” Madariaga said.

The two “sexperts,” as described by Satterwhite, answered various ques-tions that dealt with dental dams, the effects of swallowing semen and how to break up with someone if they threaten to commit suicide.

Three members of TopperWell had a display table set up to give out free condoms and information on male and female genitalia and to promote “safer sex.”

However, Louisville sophomore Dexter Crowdus, secretary of Top-perWell, said there is no such thing as “safe sex.”

“Sex always has a risk unless you ab-stain,” he said.

Madariaga said she works with HRL to do a variety of events to make sure students are informed.

“We do different things,” she said. “We work not only within the halls, but in a public setting. We do things that are interpersonal relating to vi-olence, relationships and sexual as-sault. We do our best to educate our students.”

Crime ReportPolice cited Portland, Tennessee freshman David Isenberg, Zacharias Hall, for possession of drug paraphernalia in the Adams Street Lot on Oct. 22.

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Brews can get you out of the bluesBY JACOB [email protected]

Brew. Sauce. The hard stuff. It can be assumed that most college students would agree drinking can bring happiness.

• Happiness is one-dollar wells at The Brewing Company on Thursday nights.

• Happiness is a large or-der of greasy McDonald’s fries and a sweet tea to line your stomach for the night’s activities.

• Happiness is the hangover break-fast at Fifth Street Diner.

• Happiness is collecting a ton of Mellow Mushroom pint night glasses.

• Happiness is taking a drink every time Mac and Charlie do on “It’s Always Sunny in Phila-delphia.”

• Happiness is having friends who will take your

keys or hold your hair back if needed.

• Happiness is knowing if you lose

part of your group, you’ll reconvene at Rocky’s later in the night.

• Happiness is also knowing you can only end your night at Rocky’s, not start it.

• Happiness is a party with the sole purpose of getting old friends together again.

• Happiness is winning a pong game after a half-hour of being tied.

• Happiness is being one of the stu-dents taking the History of Alcohol course with Dr. McMichael.

HAPPINESS IS

Jacob Parker

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10. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"

This anthem only plays on days of WKU baseball. It’s a little odd to hear this anthem of America’s greatest pas-time jingling down as you walk to class. But sometimes, the song really just hits the spot. You’ll be ready to knock that test out of the park after hearing this out-of-place melody.

9. "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes"

It’s an hour later. It turns out that test you thought you were going to rock actually ended up rocking you. You’re hurting, but that’s okay. Cinderella’s here to soothe your aching heart.

8. "When You Wish Upon a Star"In all the trials of adulthood, sometimes

it’s important to feel like a kid again. When this song chimes through campus, it’s easy to remember childhood nights

spent dreaming of the future.

7. That one song from “Fiddler on the Roof”

WKU knows its arts, and “Fiddler on the Roof,” the play this song originates from, is a classic. The notes will have you out of your dorm and dancing on the Hill in no time.

6. “Yesterday”This classic Beatles tune would have

scored higher, but it’s just so very sad. You’re sure to enjoy the timeless mel-ody as you pass under the bells. How-ever, you might also be weeping.

5. “Tonight”There’s jets, sharks, and, uh, Hilltop-

pers. Maybe your crew has beef with the Minton “Bad Boys.” Maybe you just enjoy heartbreak. Either way, this soulful ballad from "West Side Story" is for you.

4. “Edelweiss” It’s back from the "Sound of Music,"

and it’s bound to get stuck in your head. This pleasant tune is sure to get a few students humming every time it sways over the Hill.

3. “Some Enchanted Evening”If you’re going to fall in love at WKU,

there’s a certain formula for success. The magic moment needs to happen on the kissing bridge with this roman-tic song playing in the background.

2. “My Old Kentucky Home”Pour yourself some bourbon, slip on

your “Kentucky Kicks Ass” T-shirt and enjoy the sweet anthem of the blue-grass state. Some say the Kentucky Museum receives a boost in atten-dance every time this song chimes.

1. “Fly Me to the Moon”Who can resist a little Sinatra? Stu-

dents hear these sultry notes and instantly fi ll with lust. When you hear that tune you know it’s time for some good old-fashioned Big Red love.

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ABOVE: Bowling Green senior Rebecca Davis decorates a mask at the folk studies booth during the Potter College Fall Festival

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Taylor Mill junior Eva Ross performs at the Fifth Annual Potter College Fall Festival. The Treblemakers, the cast of the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, danc-ers from the department of theatre and dance and many others performed as well.

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It’s Fall, Y’allCynthiana sophomore Gus Madsen carves a jack-o'-lantern at the Potter College Fall Festival. Event staff would remove the inside of the pumpkins for those who carved them.

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Tea Bayou gives BG a taste of LouisianaBY JOHN [email protected]

Tea Bayou provides a delicious glimpse into Creole cuisine and quality tea. Situated on the downtown square, this little tea café turned restaurant recently expanded its menu and hours to include dinner. The space is small and intimate. An array of local art adorning the walls adds a really quirky and eclectic touch. Multi-colored rows of sealed canisters, contain-ing a myriad of loose-leaf teas, rise up

from behind the counter. Tea Bayou serves a wide spectrum of

craft teas, ranging from more popular varieties like Earl Grey to obscure

choices like the Dong Ding Spe-cial Reserve. The café’s iced house tea was slightly sweet and full of spice. Notes of cin-namon and ginger lingered long on the palate after each

sip. The result was a drink both aromatic and refreshing. The

spice level stayed, just barely, on the right side of overpowering.

JAKE POPE/HERALDShrimp and grits with French bread from Tea Bayou at 906 State St.

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As December draws closer and closer, more stu-dents are preparing to enter the big wide world of adulthood. Their freshly updated resumes are

stacked next to their research papers, and they’re look-ing for jobs that aren’t part-time at the library.

Taking steps into the career world, however, won’t involve just a polished resume and a well-written cover letter. It will involve a well-polished, professional wardrobe. As the old adage says, it’s time to learn to dress for success.

Those beloved and well worn yoga pants and basket-ball shorts that got you through your 8 a.m. comfort-ably will have to be saved for nights and weekends.

Dressing for success, though the phrase is archaic and almost cliche, doesn’t have to translate to archaic clothing. Holding true to your style can make dressing for a day on the job a little more exciting.

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PHOTOS BY ALYSSA POINTER/HERALDGrey Kenneth Cole suit with a narrow stripe Tommy Hilfi ger tie and white Modern Fit Van Heusen shirt.

gallery specializes in framingBY WHITNEY [email protected]

Before Robin Gentry bought the B&J Gallery from her aunt in 1997, she nev-er anticipated owning an art gallery.

“I actually went to Western and have a biology degree, so, the farthest thing from art that you could think of,” Gen-try said.

The local gallery, which has been open since 1960, features work from several local artists, both originals and prints. They also do custom framing.

“We try to keep a selection of local prints in,” Gentry said. “We feature lo-cal artists and rotate around the origi-nal art they have.”

Gentry decided to take on the chal-lenge of owning the gallery when her aunt decided to sell it. When she bought the shop, Gentry didn’t have experience with framing.

“It’s like anything when you start do-ing something and you’re interested in it,” Gentry said. “You’re going to learn what you need to know about it.”

She took classes through the Profes-sional Picture Framers Association and is now a Master Certifi ed picture fram-er. Gentry is also currently the presi-dent of the international organization.

Gentry said she works to stay up-to-date on proper framing techniques.

JAKE POPE/HERALDB&J Gallery at 955 Fields Dr. has a wide variety of artwork and picture framing services. SEE GALLERY PAGE B2

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Christian author shares faith with WKU womenBY STEPHANIE JESSIE [email protected]

Marian Jordan Ellis, a Chris-tian author, came to WKU for "Girls’ Night Out" on Tuesday to share her testimony and en-couragement with the women of WKU.

Ellis, whose talk was spon-sored by the Baptist Campus Ministry, has traveled the world telling girls about her mistakes and the best decision of her life: fi nding the truth of Jesus Christ.

“I was that girl,” Ellis said during her presentation. “The one that was saying you don’t have to respect me. And, I don’t think I said it with my words, but I sure said it with my actions that you don’t even have to remember my name.”

Ellis shared her testimony Tuesday night in a packed Downing Student Union audi-torium. Her presentation was based on her book “Sex and the City Uncovered.”

Ellis grew up in a home where she felt unwanted. In middle school, she was taunt-ed for being tall and having hair that was too curly.

In college, she got a hair straightener, joined a sorority and started dating a guy her sisters referred to as “Mr. Un-attainable.”

It wasn’t long before Mr. Un-attainable told Ellis, who was a

virgin, that sex was necessary to keep the relationship going.

After fi nding out that Mr. Unattainable was actually very attainable to several other girls at the same time, Ellis turned to alcohol to soothe her sorrows. She told the crowd how she would go to alcohol to fi ll the loneli-ness in her. Then, the alco-hol caused her to sleep with nameless men to make Mr. Unattainable jealous.

“I pretended like it was no big deal because that’s what everybody told me to do and I pretended like I didn’t care but inside my soul was like a completely different story,” she said about the break-up. “Inside, my heart was saying,

‘This is a big deal.’” Post-graduation, Ellis land-

ed a dream job in a big city, where she channeled her in-ner Carrie Bradshaw with new clothes, a new car, new bars to test and new men to meet. It was at one of these bars, with an empty martini glass in hand and a feeling that she still wasn’t enough, that Ellis said her fi rst prayer to a god she wasn’t sure existed.

“I had this moment of re-fl ection,” she said. “If there’s a point to this life, if there’s something that is supposed to make me feel alive — it’s sup-posed to make me feel that who I am is worth anything — if there is something that is supposed to make me feel

loved…I’ve tried it through guys, I’ve tried it in bars, I’ve tried it through success, I’ve tried it by looking beautiful and I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.”

After a co-worker invited her to an event at a church, El-lis heard a speaker say a sen-tence that would shatter her world: man is created with a God-shaped hole in his soul that can only be fi lled by God himself.

Ellis said she realized that sin had consumed her life and that God forgives those sins. She referenced a story in the Bible that talks about how Jesus prevented a woman caught in the act of adultery from being stoned to death af-

ter reminding the churchgoers with stones in their hands how they too had sinned.

“They looked at her and, when they saw her sin, they had to see their own,” she said. “And then they walked away.”

Since fi nding God, Ellis has published six books about her experiences and growth in her faith. She also founded and is president of Redeemed Girl Ministries, an organiza-tion that reaches out to wom-en about the truth of Jesus through online teachings, dis-cipleship resources and events like “Girls’ Night Out.”

Megan Cole, a student from Corbin, said she thought the talk was powerful and rel-evant.

“It correlates well with the audience, and I think it just hit home with a lot of people, in-cluding myself,” she said.

Cole had heard of one of El-lis’s books and attended the event to hear the author speak about how her life had been transformed.

“Her testimony, I think, matches up well with many of the girls that are here,” Cole said.

Ellis wrapped up the pre-sentation by reminding the audience that, after all she had gone through, she ended up fi nding out who she was.

“I know who I am because I know whose I am,” she said.

BRANDON CARTER/HERALDA photo of Zac Efron is projected behind Marian Jordan Ellis, author of "Sex and the City Uncovered" and founder of Redeemed Girl Ministries, during "Girls' Night Out" in the Downing Student Union auditorium on Tuesday. Ellis, who jokingly referred to Efron as her "cougar crush," spoke about fi nd-ing solace in her faith as a young woman in a talk sponsored by Baptist Campus Ministries.

As a standard for both genders, a good white button up and a solid pair of black or khaki slacks with nice shoes can do the job, but there’s no fun in that.

If you consider your style edgier, infuse some leather looks into your work day attire. Zip up a leather pencil skirt (prefer-ably knee length or only an inch above) with your button ups to keep your punk vibe alive. If skirts aren’t your thing, opt for a leather jacket in the cooler months.

If you love a bit more of a baggy look (i.e. oversized shirts, dresses, sweaters, etc.), get button ups that are just a bit too big and style them with loose blazers and dark pants. De-pending on the material, button ups can be much more comfortable than you’d think.

Updating your wardrobe may also involve changing your favorite store, or at least fi nding a store that carries your pro-fessional needs.

Sure, stores like Forever 21 will occasionally get in a few blazers, but the rest of their merchandise is typically too short, too cheaply made or covered in images or slogans that are inappropriate for the workplace. You don’t have to graduate to your grandparents’ stores by any means, but fi nd your professional niche in stores like Zara or COS, that carry trendy clothes for the working woman or man.

You may also fi nd that you have more professional attire in your closet than anticipated. Those nice boots Santa got you for Christmas are entirely appropriate for the water cooler. That striped dress or shirt you love? Throw it on with a car-digan or blazer and some tights or slacks, respectively, and you’re good for your meeting at noon.

Dressing for that job you’re starting after you shake Gary Rans-dell’s hand doesn’t have to be scary or hard. Find small ways to keep your style alive and have fun with dressing for success.

While tea is still the name of the game, Tea Bayou does not slack off on the food front. If the restaurant’s name is any in-dication, the food is steeped in the cuisine of New Orleans and Louisiana. Those looking for a hearty bowl of red beans and rice with Andouille sausage or jambalaya will fi nd it here.

A dish of shrimp and grits

is also on the menu. A bed of soft, stone-ground grits was drowned in a pool of Andou-ille cream that managed to be rich, meaty and spicy. Slightly sweet fried shrimp were en-crusted with black pepper. It is hard to mind that the whole dish was basically a soft, creamy mash. The mixture of savory fl avors was nicely developed, and the grits and shrimp were well cooked. Heat was present, but did not

overpower. A side of crunchy French bread introduced some much-needed texture and was an ideal vessel to sop up the grits and sauce. The dish only lacked a bright acidic component.

There is no real innovation in terms of the cuisine here, but there does not really need to be. Tea Bayou succeeds in what it aims to do — serve clas-sic southern comfort food and great craft teas.

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“It’s always nice to know that if you have something that you think is special enough to get framed, that the people that are going to frame it are going to take the time to fi nd out the way to do it correctly,“ Gentry said.

She has passed along her framing knowledge to her employee, Becky Bor-den, who found B&J through an ad in the paper. Borden had no experience with framing, but a genuine interest in art— similar

to Gentry when she began. “Robin taught me everything

I know,” Borden said. Nine years later, Borden is

Gentry’s only other employee. Borden said the best part of the

job is learning the backstory behind the artwork.

“We get to hear the back-ground, we’ll ask them what’s

the signifi cance of this and we’ll get to hear the whole story — that’s really neat,” Borden said.

While the gallery offers a vari-ety of artwork, framing artwork serves as a large portion of their

work. The framing por-tion of the job is where Gentry can add her cre-ativity into the process.

“When someone brings something in, you ask them if they have anything in mind and you kind of

get an idea on their feelings for the piece,” Gentry said. “Then you can work your creative mag-ic into their thought process.”

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Then you can work your creative magic into their thought process.”

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“We have to just do little things like get some stops when we need them, tighten up the coverage a little bit here and there when we need it. We have to fi nd ways to not give them the easy, uncovered throws, which we haven’t done,” Brohm said. “…We all have to look in the mirror and get

better.”With the Hilltoppers averaging 416.7

passing yards per game — good for second in the country — Brohm said it’s important for the running game to get going in order to take a load off of redshirt senior quarterback Brandon Doughty.

The Monarchs are giving up 232.1 rushing yards per game, which ranks second-to-last in the league.

“If we put too much pressure on the passing game to always perform at a high level, that’s not going to happen,” Brohm said. “We have to fi nd ways to distribute the ball, run the ball and not put as much pressure on our quarter-back, and fi nd different ways to move the football.”

With four of six games at home to fi nish the season, the Hilltoppers will have the crowd to their advantage, but

redshirt senior Willie McNeal said the team needs to stay focused for the en-tire 60 minutes.

“We have a young team. We have to keep the sideline up with the young guys, make sure everybody’s into the game,” McNeal said. “When the de-fense is on the fi eld, offense is on the sideline cheering those guys up just to keep everybody up and awake during the game.”

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situation this team faces.“You can’t give up now,” redshirt se-

nior Willie McNeal said. “You have a whole half of a season left. With four losses, we can go 8-4. So you just have to stay positive and stay hungry.”

Don’t be completely discouraged. This team is about two plays per game away from being 5-0. Of all the teams in the country with four loss-es, WKU has the slimmest margin of defeat by total points of 21. The next closest margin is Navy by a total of 42 points.

“I’d be more upset if I sat up here and we were getting crushed every week,” Brohm said. “I think that we are right in the thick of it. We’re a competitive football team. We haven’t been good enough to win close football games. We’re defi nitely working on it, but we have to learn on the job. We’ve got to perform better on game day, especially in the second half, if we want to get over the hump.”

That’s an awfully big hump this team faces. But this is football, not horse-shoes — close doesn’t count. If the ad-justments can’t be made against Old Dominion on Saturday, this team is in real trouble, and that is what it is.

Selig, who was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, returned to his home-town to lead Old Dominion in the same role. Replicating his success at WKU, Selig helped lead the Mon-archs out of the FCS into their fi rst year as a FBS school in Conference USA.

The trip to Bowling Green will be the fi rst for Selig and his family since he accepted the athletic di-

rector position at ODU in May of 2010.

“I was thrilled when Western Ken-tucky was invited to join Conference USA because I knew that meant I could become more of a regular visi-tor to Bowling Green and our teams would be competing consistently throughout the year,” Selig said. “I got to witness that fi rsthand when the Western Kentucky women’s soc-cer team came in here to play our women’s soccer team. That was really a unique experience.”

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BRANDON CARTER/HERALDSophomore defensive lineman D'Von Issac (99) lines up during a drill at practice on Tuesday. The Hilltoppers, coming off a 45-38 loss to Florida Atlantic, face Old Dominion at home on Saturday.

Former AD Selig returning to WKU this weekendBY ELLIOTT [email protected]

WKU has seen 15 athletic directors in the school’s ex-istence. WKU will honor its third-longest tenured athletic director Saturday when Wood Selig brings his Old Domin-ion Monarchs to town to face the Hilltoppers for a 3 p.m. CT kickoff.

Mayor Bruce Wilkerson has declared Saturday as ‘Wood Selig Appreciation Day’ for his contributions as athletic director at WKU from 1999 to 2010.

Selig and his family will be honored after the fi rst quar-ter of the WKU football game Saturday, which happens to be the fi rst-ever meeting be-tween the two schools on the gridiron.

“I’m very, very excited to see

the people of Bowling Green and all our friends that we left in Bowling Green and cer-tainly, the university and all the great transformations that continue to go on at WKU,” Selig said. “It’s a very special place, a very special institu-tion, and I can not wait to get back and spend a weekend there.”

During Selig’s tenure, WKU won 66 Sun Belt Conference championships and moved WKU football from NCAA Di-vision I-AA (FCS) to I-A (FBS) in 2007.

Upgrading facilities to state-of-the-art status with more than $100 million spent in renovation projects was, per-haps, the highlight of Selig’s tenure.

In 2002, Diddle Arena under-went a $32 million renovation that included a new playing

fl oor, new seating, two video boards and 16 luxury suites.

In 2006, renovations to Smith Stadium began that featured the construction of a new side that added 5,000 additional seats, including an 832-seat club level.

Selig hired current Athletic Director Todd Stewart in 2008 as associate athletic director of communications and media relations.

“Only two (athletic directors) have served longer than Wood Selig and that was Ed Diddle and John Oldham,” Stewart said. “He has a pretty distin-guished tenure in which a lot of notable things happened. There was success on the fi eld of play.”

Stewart said there were also signifi cant facilities’ expan-sions with Smith Stadium, Diddle Arena, the Charles M.

Rueter Track and Field Com-plex and the Paul Orberson

Baseball Clubhouse.

HERALD FILE PHOTOFormer WKU athletic director Wood Selig and President Gary Ransdell look on as former women's basketball coach Paul Sand-erford's jersey was retired on Feb. 6, 2010 in a game against Troy.

BY ELLIOTT [email protected]

Head Coach Jeff Brohm’s messageto his football team is pretty simple.They’re 2-4, winless in a new confer-ence, searching for answers on de-fense and scratching their heads onhalftime adjustments.

It’s not complicated — it is what it is.How’s that for some

deep thought?But it’s okay. They

get four of their lastsix games at homeagainst teams thathave a combined los-ing record. It onlygets better from here,right?

Well, it doesn’t quitework that way when the oppositionlooks at WKU on the schedule andthinks the same thing: "Here’s a 2-4team that can’t fi nish a game. Surely itgoes up for us."

It’s at that point — this very week asthe Hilltoppers prepare for Old Do-minion for a 3:00 p.m. CT kickoff —when the picture changes.

“We understand the situation,”Brohm said. “We haven’t been able tocorrect a few of the issues, but we havegot to fi ght through it.”

Preseason goals of winning a confer-ence championship are out the win-dow. It’s hard to do that when you al-low 533 yards and 39 points per game.

Now this team will be thrilled toreach six wins and snag a bowl bid.

We’ve seen this scene the past fouryears, and only once did it work. WKUreached more than six wins the lastthree years in the Sun Belt Confer-ence, reaching a bowl game only oneof those years, where the Hilltopperslost fi ve of their last seven games aftera 5-1 start in 2012.

Yes, the advantage of being in theConference USA allows for a seasonlike 2011 (7-5) and 2013 (8-4) to end inthe holidays. But even six wins doesn’talways get you into the party if every-one else gets there fi rst. Obviously,WKU has to win four of its next sixgames to even consider a 13th game.Standing in the way are the league’stop two teams in No. 23 Marshall (7-0)and Louisiana Tech (4-3).

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Looking to avoid its worst start in league play since 2009, the Hilltoppers are set to welcome Old Dominion to Smith Stadium on Saturday at 3 p.m.

The teams are a combined 1-6 in conference play and sit at the bot-tom of the East Division in league standings. A loss would give WKU (2-4, 0-3 Confer-

ence USA) its worst start in confer-ence play since 2009 when the team fi nished the season with a 0-12 record.

On a positive note, the Hilltoppers will play four of their six remaining games at Smith Stadium, but since WKU has dropped four of its last fi ve by a combined 21 points, Head Coach Jeff Brohm and company know now

more than ever that each game has the potential to be neck-and-neck.

“I think they’ll respond well,” Brohm said. “We’ve actually practiced very well. We’ve practiced hard. We’ve made strides in practice, and I think that our guys want to get it done. …We know, at this point, more than before, that it doesn’t matter who we play. It’s going to go down to the wire.”

Old Dominion (3-4, 1-3) has lost its past three games, including a 41-28 decision to Middle Tennessee at home and a 56-14 defeat at Marshall. The Monarchs rank sixth in the league in total offense and ninth in total defense at 416.6 and 463.9 yards per game, re-spectively.

Senior quarterback Taylor Heinicke leads a cast of talented individuals on the Monarchs offense. Heinicke cur-rently ranks fourth in the league in passing yards per game at 259.3, and holds career totals of 51 touchdowns

and just 16 interceptions in his three years as a starter.

Heinicke will be handing off to sophomore running back Gerard Johnson and freshman running back Ray Lawry. Johnson ranks 10th in rushing yards per game in league play with 64.3. Lawry comes in at No. 9 on the conference’s touchdowns scored rankings with seven.

Redshirt senior receiver Antonio Vaughan leads the Monarchs in re-ceiving touchdowns with seven, along with a kick return for a score this sea-son. Sophomore receiver Zach Pascal leads the team in receptions and yards with 37 and 509, respectively.

Junior linebacker Martez Simpson leads the team in tackles per game with 7.3. Senior linebacker D.J. Simon and safety Fellonte Misher aren’t far behind at 7.1 tackles per game.

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Tops look to reverse recent trends against Old Dominion on Saturday

Next gameSaturday OCt. 25

3 p.M.VS. OLD DoMINION@ Smith Stadium