September 18, 2012 College Heights Herald

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY • WKUHERALD.COM • VOLUME 88 NO. 7

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Using a wheelchair since he was born, Franklin freshman Jacob Holt said it’s very easy for him to sit around and do nothing all day.

However, this couldn’t be further from the truth when it comes down to what he actually does.

Holt, a computers and IT major, dived right into campus life by becom-ing president of the Southwest Hall Council earlier this month.

He said he decided to run for the job to stay busy, and there was nobody to run against him.

“We will come up with some really cool things this year,” Holt said. “Not just for us, but for the entire campus to enjoy that brings community to Southwest.”

Southwest is one of the dorms on campus that doesn’t have elevators.

Since Holt can’t go up stairs in his chair, he said he hasn’t had an oppor-tunity yet to meet a lot of people.

However, he said he is looking for-ward to branch out and meet more people who live on his fl oor.

“I’m kind of trapped on the south side of the fi rst fl oor,” he said. “It is nice that I have got my own room and

a private bathroom. It is not the big-gest and it is not the best, but I enjoy it. It is my slice of heaven.”

Despite elevator problems, Holt said his disability wouldn’t prevent him from being a good president and par-ticipant in other campus activities.

Lately, he’s been volunteering with News Channel 12.

“Last night, I got to run a teleprompt-er, which is very cool,” Holt said. “I put in an application to work at comput-ers and IT department as well as SGA. I haven’t stopped!”

Scottsville junior Sara Calvert is an RA at Southwest.

She said Holt has a very friendly per-sonality, and nothing has hindered him from interacting or relating to people on campus.

“As a president, Jacob is personal as well as hard-working within the hall council,” Calvert said. “He knows how to relate to residents’ needs in promot-ing active programs for relating to aca-demics and community involvement.

"When you are around Jacob, you don’t really notice his wheelchair. It is his personality that you go off of.”

Holt said that people on campus are treating him well, which was one of the reasons he decided to study at WKU.

It is very important for him because he said even though he would like to think everything is “roses,” help from others sometimes is necessary.

“The other day it rained really hard, and I was at the Cherry (Hall),” Holt said. “I thought, my chair is water-proof, I will just get soaking wet and get down back to Southwest a lot quicker.”

Not knowing how long it would rain, Holt took off down the Hill, but about half-way down his wheelchair died and he was stuck sitting in the rain.

“A girl gave me her umbrella,” he said. “So, I’m sitting in pouring rain holding this umbrella on the phone when some students were kind enough to push me down the Hill to my dorm.”

Since his parents moved to Alabama during his senior year of high school, Holt has taken care of himself.

“I go to Wal-Mart by myself,” he said. “I wash my own clothes, which I hate, but welcome to the world! I’m quite self-suffi cient.”

Owenton junior Derek Ellis is anoth-er RA in Southwest who lives on the same fl oor as Holt. Ellis said he thinks Holt is great at balancing his time and being very involved with the campus community as well as the Southwest staff and residents.

“I have noticed, he is very good at delegating his time wisely,” Ellis said. “He spends numerous amounts of time with hall and school related things.”

Being the president at Southwest, Holt said is just the beginning. He is planning to do more and bigger things to fi nd the right path in his future ca-reer and be a well-rounded personal-ity.

“The sky is the limit,” he said.

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Last Tuesday, the Student Government Association voted unanimously on the executive action for the es-tablishment of special long-term goals committee.

The committee will con-sist of at least eight senators and a group of non-senator students appointed by SGA President Cory Dodds.

Dodds said the special committee would set goals that SGA can agree with that should be addressed.

“I feel like there are some goals that we can all agree with that SGA should be ad-dressing,” Dodds said.

Dodds said that he is excit-ed to see the ideas the com-mittee comes up with.

“I’m looking forward to what the Senate is going to do this year,” Dodds said.

Keyana Boka, executive vice president, said the committee goal is to come

up with ideas to pass down to the next committee and to carry on projects from previous years.

Christopher Costa, speak-er of the student senate, is assisting Dodds fi nd non-SGA members for the com-mittee. Costa said he is also looking forward to what kinds of bills the commit-tee will present to the rest of SGA.

“It will be interesting to see the plans they come up with to build onto the previ-ous year and years to come,” Costa said.

He said the committee would benefi t because it wouldn’t have the same members each year.

Costa said he and Dodds haven’t met to make their decision yet on who will be a part of the committee.

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Franklin freshman Jacob Holt, who battles osteogenesis imperfecta (also known as brittle bone disease) was recently elected president of Southwest Hall. Of his condition, Holt said that “every president has their fl aw: Obama had big ears, Bush had the accent. I’m the president, and I’m addicted to Starbucks.” COOPER BURTON/HERALD

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Arrests

• Sturgis sophomore Joshua Reburn was ar-rested on Sept. 15 for reckless driving and DUI.• Bowling Green sophomore Byron Bailey was arrested on two e-warrants out of Jef-ferson County.• WKU Police responded to an assault on Sept. 13. Upon investigation, Craig Don-ald Hill, Bowling Green, was arrested and lodged at Warren County Regional Jail for disorderly conduct, fl eeing and evading, and resisting arrest.• Freshman Shaquille Johnson, Keen Hall, was arrested on Sept. 13 on an e-warrant out of Jefferson County for his failure to ap-pear in court for possession of marijuana.

Reports

• Sophomore Alexus Rae Sinnet, Bemis Lawrence Hall, reported on Sept. 15 dam-age to her car parked in Barnes lot. The damage cost is estimated at $250.• Freshman Matthew Tom Majewski, Barnes Campbell Hall, reported on Sept. 14 his Macbook Pro laptop stolen from his dorm room. The value of the stolen prop-erty is estimated at $1,400.• Freshman Tyler Lynn Forsythe, Barnes, reported on Sept. 14 his iPhone stolen from the Garret Food Court. The value of the sto-len property is estimated at $380.• Freshman Evan Dosch, Barnes, was cited on Sept. 14 for possession of alcohol by a minor.•Police on Sept. 14 observed sophomore Michael Cason, McCormack Hall, backing into a parked car and attempting to fl ee the scene. Cason also failed to produce proof of insurance.• Freshman Zachary Morgan, Keen, report-ed on Sept. 14 being assaulted at the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house.

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Students stuck in a dorm room with a per-son they dislike now have an easier way out.

Brian Kuster, director of Housing and Residence Life, said the form need-ed to request a room change is now online.

“It’s just so much eas-ier to go online and fi ll a form out and send it electronically,” he said.

Kuster said the new form will be more con-venient for students and will let them receive their approval faster, via email.

The random roommate Louisville sophomore Chase Thomas had as a freshman wasn't a good fi t.

“Basically, our interests were confl icting a lot,” he said. “He was rude with friends around, but for some reason when it was just me and him, he

wanted to be really cool. It was not a good situa-tion.”

Thomas said he had the opportunity to room with one of his Phi Gam-ma Delta (Fiji) frater-nity brothers during the spring semester, but it didn’t work out.

“It would have been nice to switch out and get another roommate, but at the same time, it was just something I felt like I could possibly deal with,” he said.

He stuck it out with his roommate for the rest of the year. He said he gets along better with his new roommate, Mount Washington sophomore Ryne McMullen.

Thomas said McMul-len, a member of his fraternity, is a funny guy and has similar interests.

“We didn’t know how it was going to work out, but all I knew was that it was probably going to be better than my previ-ous roommate,” Thomas

said.Thomas said he enjoys

staying in his room now and feels more comfort-able with his new room-mate so far.

“We don’t have prob-lems when we’re in the room together,” he said. “It’s just a lot, a lot better than last year.”

Even though room-mate pairs don’t always work out, Kuster said they try to look at simi-larities when pairing roommates.

“There’s a list of ques-tions we ask about; 'When you study?' ‘Are you an early riser?’ ‘Do you go to bed late?’ Mu-sic preferences, those kinds of things,” Kuster said. “We work to try to match people that are similar that way.”

Even when students think they're compat-ible, things don’t always work.

Frankfort freshman Sienna Moore said she and her fi rst roommate

were best friends when they decided to come to WKU. They had a falling-out right before moving in together.

“I did not like my room-mate at all,” she said. “We always had problems.”

One of the problems Moore had with her roommate was that she made it diffi cult for her to sleep in the room.

“I never got sleep be-cause she talked in her sleep and whined all night,” Moore said.

Moore now rooms with freshman Victoria Tinkle, of Eastland, Texas, whom she said she became close with when they met at school.

“As far as the rules and stuff in the room, we agreed on just about ev-erything, so it was kind of like it was perfect,”

Moore said. Moore said Tinkle

didn’t have a roommate, so the decision to room with Moore was easy.

“She’s a sweetheart,” Moore said. “She doesn’t

give me any reason to ar-gue with her.”

Room changes be-gan on Sept. 10 and will continue until students choose housing for the 2013-2014 school year.

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Frankfort freshman Sienna Moore, left, and Eastland, Texas freshman Victoria Tinkle are roommates in Gilbert Hall. JEFF BROWN/ HERALD

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Opinion

THE ISSUE: South Campus food court has been closed since the beginning of the semester. It has been replaced with a grab-to-go option in the bookstore. Offi cials said declining sales was the reason for the move.

OUR STANCE: The food court needs to be reinstated, because what South Campus is left with is not com-fortable or convenient enough. In a decision

that affects thousands of people, they should have been notifi ed of this change rather than showing up to discover there is no longer a food court.

While students on Main Campus are dis-gruntled over long lines and delayed restaurant openings, students who attend South Campus for classes are stuck with cold cut sandwiches.

Offi cials said the food court was closed be-cause it had seen de-clining sales over the past two years.

“Auxiliary services are self-supporting. It’s not based on tuition dollars,” assistant vice president of Auxiliary Services Gary Meszaros said. “We tried differ-ent menus and options

— we weren’t breaking even. We weren’t mak-ing money."

The replacement of the food court, grab-and-go options in the South Campus book-store and vending ma-chines, is being called more “effi cient” for students.

Though the food court closing brings up many questions, the biggest one that remains is “How can an entire food court be wiped away with-out the consultation of

those who it affects?” Where was the student opinion or the Student Government Asso-ciation or the Board of Regents? Surely a deci-sion that affects an en-tire campus must have been one where as much input as possible was involved.

When asked who was consulted while making the decision, Meszaros said, “We talked with the busi-nesses on South Cam-pus.”

Yet the business own-ers aren’t the ones who are eating or buying lunch at South Cam-pus. The students and faculty are.

Yes, money is a huge factor in any running service, but when the people in charge be-gin to make decisions

based off money and not who will be af-fected, then there is a problem.

Serving students who pay for meal plans, Dining Dollars and Big Red Dollars should be the top priority.

If students on South Campus now want to eat, they can go to the bookstore, which has grab-and-go salads and sandwiches. But the bookstore closes at 1:30 p.m. on weekdays and isn’t open at all on Fridays.

They also can go to neigh-boring Man-puku Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar Res-taurant (which does not take Big Red Dol-lars) or take a risk and at-tempt to cross the busy in-tersection that separates the campus from other restau-rants.

Again, how is this conve-nient, and for whom?

Students can also travel back to main campus to eat, but any-

one who eats lunch on main campus knows the lunch-hour rush is a long wait.

The Herald has al-ready written about the long lines at the Topper Cafe and Subway.

With RedZone and Panda Express still not open four weeks into the semester, options are limited, and travel-ing to main campus to eat will most likely be just as troublesome as trying to go to the res-taurants surrounding South Campus.

We have heard of-fi cials say that South Campus is just as much as WKU as main campus is, but it is evi-dent that the decision to close the food court was handled different-ly than if it was on main campus.

If the business that

served food on South Campus weren’t mak-ing enough money, then they should have thought of new ways to bring students in — not wipe out the entire food court.

One thing they could have done is switch the restaurants out with new ones. Isn’t that what happened with Taco’s Last Stand two semesters ago on main campus? It didn’t bring in enough busi-ness, so it was replaced with Greens to Go. Why could the same deci-sion or a similar one not be made on South Campus?

Students spend mon-ey to buy meal plans so they can eat. The fact that South Campus students are now hav-ing to pay out of pocket for a meal, eat cold-cut sandwiches or, worse, not eat, should raise the eyebrows of many, especially when stu-dents pay up to $1,575 a semester for meal plans that allow them to eat whenever they want — whether that be at main or South.

What is important to remember is that the closing of the South Campus food court is in “experimental mode,” meaning the changes are not per-manent.

Students, from both campuses, the Herald urges you to write, call or email those who are in charge of these decisions. While they should have consulted with the students be-forehand, now is the time to reach out.

The decision to close the South Campus food court should not be taken lightly. Though offi cials say they made the decision out of the best interests of the students who attend South Campus, the hassle it is now causing them doesn’t seem as if they were considered.

STAFF EDITORIAL

This editorial represents the majority opinion of the Herald's 14-member editorial board.

PEOPLEPOLL

“What are you eating now that the South Campus food court is closed?”

“Chick-fi l-A (on main cam-pus). I’m only here once a week, so it doesn't bother me, really.” -Rondazia Owens, Bowling Green freshman

“I bring peanut butter crackers from my dorm. It’s not helping, really. I mean,

a lot of people only have an hour to eat, so they can’t go

to main campus, so they have to bring something to eat or be hungry until they

leave for main campus." - Kevin McStoots, Linch-

fi eld freshman

“Nothing. (I’m here from) 8 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. I don’t

eat until I get back to main. There is really nowhere to

walk around here. McDon-ald’s is too far away.”

-Brittani Thompson, Louis-ville freshman

“I have to bring snacks, but I usually suffer till I get to main campus. It’s pretty upset-ting, because if I want food, I’ll have to wait ’cause I don’t have time in between class-es.”-Ashley Nichols, Henderson-ville, Tenn. Freshman

“Fast food. I’m having to leave campus and go to fast food restaurants around here. I think it’s ridiculous. I think an eating establishment ought to be on this campus.”-Kimberly Moberly, Russleville junior

“Sunfl ower seeds and whatever I can get at the gas

station. I’m pretty mad about it, because there is nowhere to eat on my way from main

campus to work (at South Campus).”

-Kenny Khamvongsa,Bowling Green senior

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Some people may not consider tattoos a work of art, but the fi ne arts center gallery is putting ink on display.

The FAC gallery exhibit, “Tran-scending Skin,” includes tattoo art with roots in traditional fl ash art, Japanese prints and other kinds of historical and contemporary piec-es.

The artists on display, Wes Carter, Brad Ausbrooks, Atom Compton, Wesley Sandlin, Jerrad “Doughboy” Derossett and Robert Gregory, come from Carter’s Tattoo Com-pany and designed all of the art in the gallery.

Brent Oglesbee, head of the art department, said that the gallery committee decided last spring that the exhibit would be a part of the gallery schedule.

“The gallery committee felt that this was an interesting extension of how the visual arts are being used,” Oglesbee said.

This exhibition was installed by Kristina Arnold’s gallery studies class.

Arnold, the gallery director and an associate art professor, said the exhibition was the brain child of art professor Matthew Tullis.

“He knows the folks at Carter’s Tattoo Company and Brad Aus-brooks was a former student of his,” Arnold said.

Arnold said while she and her students were hanging the art, stu-dents would show their own tat-toos from Carter’s to each other.

“We wanted it to be something that would resonate with students and they would fi nd it applicable to their lives,” Arnold said. “More than looking at and expanding the

defi nition of what art is.”She said the tattoo artists make

work that is permanent on the skin, but when they showed their work at the exhibit, they were much shyer.

“These artists are local, but you’re not used to seeing these images from them; you’re used to seeing their skin art,” Arnold said. “(It’s) A selection of images you might expect to see in a tattoo show, and then some are unexpected.”

Ausbrooks said he has 10 years of tattoo experience.

“I hope that students get a differ-ent perspective, because it goes be-yond looking at it, to see our infl u-ences and styles we like to do and show that it’s actual art,” Ausbrooks said of his work.

Ausbrooks said that he had fun doing old fl ash art, such as anchors or barbed wire from the ’30s and ’40s and giving it a modern feel.

“Tattoo art is taking old ideas and putting a twist on it,” Ausbrooks said.

Students roaming the gallery re-acted positively to the exhibit.

Alexandria junior Rachael Fus-ting said she thought the exhibit was brilliant and interesting.

“Ten years ago, tattoos were ta-boo —now it’s a self-expression art, and this exhibit embraces where art is going in society,” Fusting said.

Bowling Green senior Maggi Reed also said she enjoyed the art ex-hibit.

“The designs were visually strik-ing, and I like tattoo art in a fi ne arts setting,” Reed said.

There will be a reception for the exhibition on Thursday at 6 p.m. At least two of the artists will be there to briefl y introduce their work and answer questions in the gallery.

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The light shined bright-ly in Bowling Green on Saturday, despite the clouds that blocked the sun’s rays. More than 100 people, of all ages, gath-ered in Phil Moore Park to participate in a 5K run and 1-mile walk raising money and awareness for St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital.

For 50 years, St. Jude’s has advanced cures and means of prevention for pediatric catastrophic diseases through re-search and treatment. It is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not cov-ered by insurance, ac-cording to the hospital’s website.

Marshall Gray, director of WKU Postal Services, started planning the race three months ago with the intention that it would be the kickoff to his own fundraising efforts for St. Jude’s half-marathon in Memphis, Tenn., this fall.

Gray’s running career began as an effort to lose weight and has since be-come another way he

chooses to serve others and give back. Gray, who has partici-pated in 14 half-mara-thons in the last three years and lost 95 lbs. since he began, said he loves giving back. “One of the fi rst half-marathons I ran was for St. Jude’s, and we ran through the St. Jude cam-pus,” he said. “Kids were standing outside thank-ing all the runners as they passed by. I thought there was no better way to support St. Jude’s than to host a race locally.” Representing the “red and white” at the 5K was Delta Sigma Theta so-rority and their Bowling Green alumni chapter. According to the soror-ity’s chapter president, Rauneisha Mayes-Reid, the Deltas place great emphasis on service. Mayes-Reid, a senior from Cincinnati, said their philanthropic ef-forts include domestic violence, breast can-cer, “The Tabitha Briggs Run,” Habitat for Hu-manity and St. Jude. The girls arrived at the park at 7:15 a.m. with bottles of water for the runners. The race began at 8

a.m., and 21 minutes lat-er, 10-year-old Eli Alvey, a member of the Green-wood Elementary School Gator’s cross country team, passed the fi nish line and earned the fi rst place trophy. “I run the 2K for the cross country team, but I just run 5Ks for fun,” Al-vey said. “It was the fi rst annual, so I just wanted to try it out, and it’s for a good cause.” Rodney Williams and Peter Brandt, the 2nd and 3rd place winners respectively, ran the race in preparation for the Medical Center 10K Clas-sic they will be running in a matter of weeks. Brandt said the 10K has been going on for 40 years and that he ran it 30 years ago. Along with handing out water, the Deltas were stationed at check-points throughout the race, where they directed runners and encouraged those participating. “We were personal cheerleaders today,” Mayes said. “People were like, ‘Thank you; thank you so much.’ It was really rewarding for us to hear people saying ‘thank you’ to us.”

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Fiddle culture, bour-bon distilling and the other cultural institu-tions of Kentucky will be studied closer at WKU, thanks to a new outside program.

The Kentucky Folklife Program, previously housed in Frankfort, has found its new home at WKU.

Brent Bjorkman, tem-porary research assistant professor, is in charge of the program. Bjorkman is a WKU graduate and has previously worked for the Kentucky Folklife Program.

The program does fi eld work — meeting people and documenting the things they do — to pre-serve Kentucky’s culture.

“You know, the study of folklore is really docu-menting — meaning in-terviewing people about their traditions, photo-graphing the communi-ties and the people, and talking to them about how these things were passed on,” Bjorkman said.

Bjorkman said WKU is well suited for the pro-

gram. “It came here because of the very fi ne program in folk studies we have here on campus,” he said. “Folk studies here on campus started over 40 years ago, and it’s a very well-known nation-al program.” He said another rea-son for the move was because of fi nancial dif-fi culties in Frankfort, but the group doesn’t stay near its headquarters. “We’ve done documen-tation in many different areas of the state,” Bjork-man said. “And it’s not always a rural documen-tation. Sometimes we do documentation in city centers as well.” Bjorkman said the pro-gram’s archives will be moved to WKU this fall. He also said he will fi nd funding through grants and individual donors. “It’ll be my job to be thinking about really creative projects that I can do and fi nding the resources to do that,” Bjorkman said. Bjorkman said he is looking into a partner-ship with Traditional Arts Indiana to do a documentation project together in the border re-

gion between Kentucky and Indiana. Michael Ann Williams, the department head of Folk Studies and Anthro-pology, said the program will be a very important addition to the depart-ment because it lets stu-dents have hands-on work. Williams also said WKU’s folk studies de-partment has a national reputation for training students in public folk-lore. “This is going to be a really important alliance between an academic and a public program,” Williams said. David Lee, dean of Pot-ter College, said he thinks Kentucky Folklife’s deci-sion to work with WKU was an easy one. “We’re the obvious choice to host the folk life program, because we have a very high-profi le program in folk studies here, especially at the graduate level,” Lee said. “We’re nationally known for preparing stu-dents to work in public sector jobs, and we’re the natural home for the Kentucky Folklife pro-gram.”

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Students at WKU planning a career in law have multiple ways to get prepared for law school. WKU is hosting an opportunity for law-minded students to ask questions of admission offi cials from Kentucky law schools at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Faculty House. Admissions offi cials from the three Kentucky law schools; University of Kentucky College of Law, the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at NKU, are coming to WKU. Patricia Minter, associate pro-fessor of history and coordina-tor of pre-law advising, said this event is something that has been happening for the past 15 years. Pre-law Advising is sponsoring the event. Student Government Asso-ciation President Cory Dodds, a Smithland senior, is one of the students planning to attend the presentation on Tuesday. Dodds said he is going to at-tend law school after graduating. “It gives students a chance to talk to people who are directly in-volved with student admissions at law schools,” Dodds said. He said he didn’t choose legal studies as a minor because he felt there was too much overlap with his political science major. Despite that, he still feels that WKU has prepared him for law school. “I’ve taken a lot of classes that they recommended, and I’m confi dent that they’ve prepared me well,” Dodds said. Minter said the offi cials travel in a group to recruit students. “They’re trying to meet stu-dents and recruit them for their program and our students get the benefi t of their wisdom, their fi rsthand knowledge of the pro-cess and the best and most up-to-date information that exists,”

Minter said. Minter said this is a fantastic opportunity for students, and anyone can attend the presenta-tion, from freshmen to seniors. “Anybody can come, and it’s appropriate for a freshman to come four different times over the course of their WKU career, because I know I learn things every time I hear them present,” Minter said. The presentation will consist of admissions strategies, LSAT preparation and pre-law prepa-ration. Pre-law advising is another op-tion. It gives students interested in law a chance to get advice. Minter said she advises students from all over the university. WKU does not have a pre-law major because the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools strong-ly urge against it. Instead, it’s recommended that students choose a major that emphasizes reading, writing, and logical and analytical reasoning skills, Minter said. “You have to take a rigorous course of study that will give you the skills that you need to be suc-cessful,” Minter said. Deborah Wilkins, chief of staff and general counsel, said an-other option for students is to get a degree in paralegal studies if they’re interested in going into law fi rms in a support staff posi-tion. “It’s a nice alternative for peo-ple who, you know, maybe don’t want to invest three years of law school but still want to work in a legal fi eld doing something other than just being a secretary,” Wilkins said. Another option for students is the legal studies minor. Minter said the minor gives students a broad-based introduction to the fi eld of law. It looks at law from a variety of perspectives. “There’s not one approach to studying law,” Minter said.

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Chebet doing well in fi rst WKU cross country season

Senior Joseph Chebet’s long journey has taken him from Uganda to the top spot on WKU’s men’s cross country team.

Chebet was born in the Kapchorwa District of eastern Uganda, a dis-trict that also produced Stephen Kiprotich, men’s marathon gold medal-ist at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Chebet came to WKU in 2011 as a mid-year transfer and found im-mediate success.

This spring in Des Moines, Iowa he made the the NCAA Finals out-door 5K, placing 23rd.

“The NCAA Tourna-ment was a very good ex-perience,” Chebet said, “It was so great just to make it to fi nals.”

The day of the fi nals, Chebet received a call from his father in Ugan-da. Chebet’s mother, who had been battling a heart illness, had passed away.

“Obviously, any time you lose somebody close to you, it’s very diffi cult, but he just went out and gave it his best,” Head Coach Erik Jenkins said. “We are extremely proud of him.”

Though the NCAA

Tournament appearance has been the highlight of his young WKU career, Chebet has had success elsewhere.

In 2009, Chebet began running for Ndejje Univer-sity in Uganda.

He went on to compete at the champion-ships that year in Serbia at the University of Belgrade.

“This is where it all began,” Chebet said of Ndejje.

His fi rst ex-perience with WKU did not happen until nearly a year later.

“I had started recruiting Joseph about two years ago,” Jenkins said, “We knew of him through for-mer runners WKU had had from Uganda.”

Jenkins met Chebet in 2010 at World Junior Championship in Mon-treal.

That meeting sparked a close friendship, Chebet said.

Then, in the fall of 2011, Chebet moved to Bowl-ing Green and became part of the WKU track and fi eld program.

Due to his transfer sta-tus, he didn’t compete on

the cross country team. However, Chebet did

compete in both the in-door and outdoor track seasons.

“I didn’t perform well in the trials lead-ing up to the NCAA Tourna-ment due to the big transi-tion I was going through,” said Chebet. “It took courage.”

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Chebet has high hopes and expectations for this fall, his fi rst cross country season with the Toppers.

So far, he hasn’t disap-pointed.

He placed second at the Belmont Opener in Nashville on Aug. 31, earning Sun Belt Runner of the Week honors.

He followed that per-formance by winning the Commodore Classic on Saturday in Nashville.

“What Joseph has been able to accomplish is quite phenomenal,” Jenkins said, “We look forward to a successful cross country season.”

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The Lady Toppers are halfway through the regular season and will play one more non-conference game when they travel to Nashville to take on Belmont (4-9) at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

No. 24 WKU (13-3) will then enter Sun Belt Conference play this week-end on fi re after sweeping the Coke/Michigan Invitational over the week-end.

The Lady Toppers beat Duke 3-1, No. 22 Michigan 3-2, and Eastern Michigan 3-1.

The Lady Toppers fi lled the stat sheet with double-digit performanc-es in the tournament.

“I think our performance in our home tournament made a huge dif-ference in our tournament at Michi-gan,” coach Travis Hudson said. “I think our kids just had a different feel about them from a confi dence stand-point.”

Jordyn Skinner earned a double-double in each game, including a 19-kill, 10-dig game against Michigan.

Melanie Stutsman added a double-double against Duke, getting 50 as-sists and 11 digs.

Skinner, who was named tourna-ment MVP and Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week, praised Stutsman.

“Melanie did really well giving each of the hitters one-on-one situations,” Skinner said. “Our defense, Mel, and our hitters executed everything per-fectly.”

With Duke leading the opening match 1-0 after taking the fi rst set,

the Lady Toppers used 14 team kills to defeat Duke in the second set 25-23, tying the score heading into halftime.

The Lady Toppers dominated the third set and took the fourth set to win the match.

WKU gave up the fi rst set again later that night to Michigan. The Lady Top-pers then put up 12 kills and four aces to take the second set 25-14.

After halftime, WKU and Michigan exchanged sets, leading to the fi rst fi fth set the Lady Toppers have played in this season.

Haley Bodway knocked down three consecutive kills to give WKU an early 5-3 lead. A block from Heather Boyan and Paige Wessel gave the Lady Top-pers a 15-11 fi nal set win, and their second win of the season against a top 25 team.

Stutsman set up a season-high 54 assists.

After taking the fi rst set versus East-ern Michigan 25-21, the Lady Toppers used 15 kills and four aces to control the set with a 25-11 win at the break.

After losing the third set, an ace from Ashley Potts capped off the fourth set with a 25-15 win.

Potts fi nished the tournament with 64 digs and was named the Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Week.

“After we beat Dayton at home (on Sept. 7), we really started to believe in ourselves,” Potts said. “Coach Hudson made it a point to us to treat this tour-nament like the NCAA (Tournament).

"That was our mindset the whole time and we came out on top with a great feeling.”

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Kentucky win.His stat line from the UK game

ranks as one of the best at WKU in re-cent years.

Dowling is just the fi fth player in school history to pull in three inter-ceptions in a game and the fi rst to do so since Carl Brazley in 1978.

Dowling was named Sun Belt Con-ference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday for his efforts against UK.

Coach Willie Taggart said Dowling’s performance against the Wildcats was a direct result of the work he did in practice in the week leading up to the game

“He did a great job this week of studying fi lm and pract ic-ing, and it paid off in the g a m e , ” Ta g g a r t said.

He said having a “ball hawk” like Dowling on the WKU defense makes games diffi cult for opposing quarter-backs.

“He just has tremendous ball skills and a great understanding of the game,” Taggart said. “He trusts his instincts and that’s why he’s able to go and snag a lot of those balls — he doesn’t hesitate.”

Taggart said the win was a good way for his entire secondary, a group which calls themselves “the air force,” to come back after a weaker perfor-mance against Alabama.

The Topper defensive backs gave up 225 passing yards and four touch-downs through the air against the Crimson Tide.

“I told our guys, ‘here we go again, we’re in the spotlight, let’s thrive un-der pressure this time and show up,’ and a lot of guys did that in that game and it was good to see,” Taggart said.

Dowling fi gures to see plenty of ac-tion in the WKU secondary this Sat-urday against Southern Mississippi, as Golden Eagle quarterbacks are averaging 27 pass attempts per game.

He and his team-high four picks will likely be a focus of USM scouting re-

ports.D o w l i n g

said that while he doesn’t know if the Golden Eagles will build their of-fensive game

plan around him, he’s planning on preparing for them as if they were any other opponent.

“I respect other players, but at the same time, I really wouldn’t change up what I do for someone else,” Dowl-ing said. “I’m going to look at them as I do any other opponent and prepare for them as much as I can. That’s all I know how to do.”

looming.He spoke like a coach who knew

he was going to lose his job.Three years ago, the state’s three

Football Bowl Subdivision schools, WKU, UK and Louisville, all hired new coaches.

U of L hired Florida defensive co-ordinator Charlie Strong.

UK promoted Phillips, the Wild-cats’ offensive coordinator who’d already been deemed “coach-in-waiting.”

And WKU chose Taggart, Stan-ford running backs coach and for-mer Topper player and assistant.

Now in year three, Strong and Taggart are both the popular fac-es of their programs. Meanwhile, Phillips might not make it through his third year.

It’s probably not fair to com-pare Strong and Taggart, because they’ve never met on the fi eld.

But when it comes to the Phil-lips-Taggart matchup, it’s easy to see which program is booming and which is busting.

UK routed WKU 63-28 in 2010.The Wildcats won 14-3 in 2011.WKU beat UK 32-31 on Saturday.That means in a two-year stretch

the Wildcats have gone from being fi ve touchdowns better than the Toppers to not even being able to beat them.

Today, WKU is probably the sec-ond-best team in the state, trailing only undefeated U of L.

Phillips’ ‘Cats are the common-wealth’s third-best team (or, as some fans have joked, the fourth-best behind U of L, WKU and Lou-isville Trinity High School).

Maybe 40 years ago a three-year tenure wouldn’t have been labeled enough time to make a call on whether to fi re or keep a coach.

But in the what-have-you-done-lately world of modern college football, three years is the new fi ve.

If you don’t win in three years or less, you’re probably gone.

Taggart took a program that didn’t beat anyone three years ago and beat an SEC team.

Phillips took a program that was winning consistently and has yet to build on that foundation. He probably won’t get the chance to, either.

WKU red may not be the new blue among the majority of the state’s fans.

But when it comes to the on-fi eld performances between the two teams and coaches, red seems headed in a better direction than blue.

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extra period. “When we did go to overtime, I brought our team together and I was like, “Hey, this is what we do. We’re the over-time king — whenever we go to overtime, we win,’” Taggart said. “Our guys were fi red up, they understood we were back in our neck of the woods being in over-time, and they went out and played well.”

Junior running back Antonio Andrews punched it in to the end zone on the ensuing drive for WKU.

Then instead of kick-ing the extra point to tie the game and send it in to another overtime, Taggart and the team elected to go for the two-point conversion.

With the game on the line, the Toppers were going to win or go back to Bowling Green emp-

ty-handed.Senior quarterback

Kawaun Jakes took the snap and tossed it to junior running back An-tonio Andrews, who was two yards behind him and on the other side of the fi eld.

Andrews, a former Kentucky Mr. Football winner as a high school quarterback, threw the ball back at Jakes, who went untouched on his eight-yard run into the end zone.

“We play to win,” An-drews said. “It surprised me what play he called, but in this game you play to win.”

Taggart said the trick play, called “Seminole,” was added to the WKU playbook just days be-fore the Kentucky game.

“That play came up in practice one day like ‘Hey, let’s try this,” Tag-gart said. “We put it in Wednesday, practiced it Thursday, walked through it again on Fri-day, and walked through

it again on Saturday.”Andrews and Jakes

were instrumental parts of the WKU victory. An-drews fi nished with 125 yards and three touch-downs on the ground,and Jakes went 16-of-22 for 160 yards and a touchdown.

Andrews was named Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts.

The win is one of the biggest victories for the Toppers since they won the Division I-AA na-tional championship in 2002.

Taggart was co-of-fensive coordinator for WKU in 2002.

Now the head coach, he said the Kentucky win was just another step in WKU’s quest for a bowl berth.

“At the end of the sea-son, we want everybody to know who we are and what we’re about,” Tag-gart said. “Right now, we’re on schedule with what we set out to do.”

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The postgame reactions of Willie Taggart and Joker Phillips on Saturday said all you needed to know about where their programs are heading.

Taggart’s WKU team had just beat Phillips’ Kentucky squad 32-31 in overtime on a gutsy two-point conver-sion.

Taggart looked like a kid on Christ-mas.

Phillips looked like a kid who’d been grounded.

Taggart told a Lexington camera-man that “WKU red is the new blue in Kentucky now, baby!” and Lambeau Leaped into the visiting fans’ section at Commonwealth Stadium.

Fifteen minutes later he appeared in front of the media wearing a “Will on the Hill” t-shirt, answered the reporters’ questions, got up and gave a big “Whoooo’s got it better than us?” as he left the room.

Then you had Phillips.UK’s coach walked across the

fi eld for the postgame hand-shake with a blank look on his face.

He was terse with answers to reporters, both in the press confer-ence and on his postgame radio

show.Phillips spoke like a man whose

team was 1-2 a year after going 5-7, had just lost to “little brother” WKU for the fi rst time in program history and had an eight-game SEC gauntlet looming.

He spoke like a coach who knew he

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Sophomore defensive back Jonathan Dowling intercepts the football during the WKU vs. UK game at Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday. He is currently tied for NCAA lead in interceptions with 4. WKU won over UK in overtime 32-31. JEFF BROWN/HERALD

—9:42, 1st quarterA seven-yard touchdown pass from Kawaun Jakes to Jack Doyle is called back because of an illegal formation penalty. WKU settles for a fi eld goal.

—5:45, 2nd quarterJonathan Dowling intercepts a Max Smith pass and returns

the ball to the UK two-yard line. Antonio Andrews scores a

touchdown two plays later to put WKU up 17-0.

—3:33, 3rd quarterSmith hits Jonathan George

for a 15-yard touchdown pass to bring UK within

24-17.

—:24, 4th quarterSmith hits DeMarcus Sweat, who bounces off a Dowling tackle and into the end zone

for a 22-yard touchdown to tie WKU at 24, forcing

overtime.

—UK possession, overtimeWKU’s Xavius Boyd hits UK’s La’Rod

King out of bounds, giving UK an automatic fi rst down. George goes on

to score a touchdown to put UK up 31-24.

—WKU possession, overtimeAndrews scores a touchdown to bring WKU within 31-30.

Andrews then hits Jakes on a two-point conversion

halfback pass to win the game.

UK, WKU programs going in different directions

Jonathan Dowling is an SEC player, and SEC play-ers show up against SEC schools.

The sophomore free safety intercepted three of Maxwell Smith’s passes and racked up four tack-les in WKU’s 32-31 win over Kentucky on Satur-day.

The win was the Top-pers’ fi rst against UK, or any SEC opponent for that matter.

It also came in Dowl-ing’s third regular season game with WKU.

He played his freshman season in the SEC at Flor-ida before transferring to WKU late in 2010. He made his Topper debut on Sept. 1 against Austin Peay after sitting out the 2011 season due to trans-fer rules.

SEC teams have won every national champi-onship since 2006, and Dowling’s status as WKU’s lone SEC transfer makes

him stand out from most of the other players on the WKU defense.

“When I play an SEC school or any other school, I feel like I’ve got to make a play,” Dowling said after the Kentucky win.

His stat line from the UK game ranks as one of the best at WKU in recent years.

Dowling is just the fi fth player in school history to pull in three intercep-tions in a game and the

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By now, the time limit for WKU’s “24-hour rule” — a rule that states players must focus on their next op-ponent 24 hours after their last game — has passed.

But even coach Willie Taggart knows it’ll be hard to forget what happened in Lexington on Saturday night.

WKU scored its fi rst win against Kentucky on Saturday night, beating the Wildcats 32-31 in overtime.

“That was a big-time accomplish-ment for us and our guys were ex-cited — I gave them 25 hours instead of 24 hours,” Taggart said on Monday. “At 11 o’clock last night, I texted all of them and told them it was over with. We’re on to the next one.”

Players and coaches said they’re fo-cused on the next opponent, South-ern Mississippi, but the impact of the

UK win on the WKU football program deserves some refl ection.

The victory is the fi rst by WKU over an automatic qualifying-conference school since Division I split into I-A and I-AA in 1978.

It is also the school’s fi rst win over an SEC school.

The way the Toppers won the game is just as notable as its implications.

WKU rushed to a 17-0 fi rst-half lead before going into halftime up 17-10.

Up 24-17 with 2:15 to go in the game, the Toppers gave up the tying touchdown to Kentucky with 24 sec-onds left. The game was headed for overtime.

The Wildcats took over on offense to start the overtime period and had a seven-point lead when WKU took over minutes later.

Taggart, who has a 4-0 overtime record, said the Toppers’ overtime record gave them confi dence in the

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WKU head coach Willie Taggart is doused with the Powerade bucket after WKU’s win over Kentucky. WKU won 32-31 against Kentucky at Com-monwealth Stadium on Saturday. This is WKU’s fi rst win against an SEC opponent.. JEFF BROWN/HERALD

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UK win a milestone for WKU

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