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South Lawn won’t be the center of tailgating for game day like in years past.

The Downing University Center renovation project and new Topper Cafe site have taken up most of the lawn.

WKU Athletics Director Todd Stewart said the game day experience over the next two years will be different while construction takes place.

“There will be some tenting and some tailgating in the South Lawn area, but certainly not as much as there has been before,” Stewart said.

Stewart said most tailgating activities are going to move up Avenue of Champions, closer to the student tailgating area. There will also be a greater fan presence on Grise Hall lawn.

William Skaggs, the director of Annual Giving for WKU, previously tailgated on South Lawn, but will now get ready for the game on McCormack Hall lawn.

“Mainly it’s a location change obviously, but we’ll still have the same group of friends and

fans,” Skaggs said. The university plans to use more of the parking

lot space than they have in the past. “Campuses throughout the country tailgate on

parking lots,” said Howard Bailey, vice president for Student Affairs. “We’ve got wonderful locations and a lot of other grassy areas beyond the South Lawn.”

President Gary Ransdell said he hopes students and fans are going to take advantage of the entire campus on game days.

“Any place on campus, just have at it, and make the campus, all of the campus, come alive on game day,” Ransdell said.

Bailey said the mentality that tailgating has to occur in only one area will have to change.

“These next two years we’re going to take it as an opportunity to expand tailgating and hopefully get our students and other fans to understand that you don’t have to be in direct sight of the stadium to tailgate,” Bailey said.

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Students returning to WKU may feel like incoming freshmen as construction projects started over the summer have seemingly turned WKU’s campus into a different school.

Despite the changes, John Osborne, vice president for Campus Services and Facilities, said WKU did most of the construction during the summer to limit the disruption to students.

Renovations of Downing University Center progressed throughout the summer.

Students will not be able to see most of the construction in DUC, due to a barrier that blocks the side where Fresh Food Company was located.

“Most of it will be behind closed doors,” said Bryan Russell, director of Planning,

Design, and Construction.The DUC renovation project began on

June 26 and is set to fi nish on July 15, 2014. Russell said the contractor, Whittenberg Construction, has completed steam and utility tunnels on the Avenue of Champions side of the building.

There was also demolition work during that time.

Russell said most of the interior has been demoed, but some demolition work is still taking place.

He said the demolition process for DUC is different than others in the past because a goal for the building is to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certifi ed.

A LEED certifi ed building promotes

DUC -- The $49 million renovation project has moved many services it used to house to other buildings on campus. The DUC Annex will stay open during the entire renovation process.

GARRETT -- The conference center now houses the ID Center, WKU Store, Post Offi ce and Students In Free Enterprise.

TOPPER CAFE -- The new structure houses the Fresh Food Company this year only. After the completion of the DUC renovation, the structure will be turned back into green space.

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WKU is currently involved in nine lawsuits, said Deborah Wilkins, chief of staff and gen-eral counsel.

Despite having some of the cases extend further than she anticipated, Wilkins said she’s confi dent WKU will come out fi ne when the court makes its rulings.

• Junlian Zhang v. WKU – Filed Nov. 26, 2007Zhang, a former WKU employee, claims she

was fi red because of discrimination regarding her gender and pregnancy. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of WKU in September 2010. Zhang has since fi led two appeals in Decem-ber 2010. The fi rst appeal was based on the summary judgment’s dismissal of several of Zhang’s claims. The second appeal was based on the trial judgment. Wilkins said both ap-peals will be consolidated so the case can pro-ceed in a unifi ed manner.

• Elizabeth Esters v. WKU – Filed Oct. 6, 2009

Elizabeth Esters, who voluntarily retired from the university, claims WKU breached her employment contract. Both parties involved have agreed to submit briefs and accept a judge’s review and ruling, meaning a jury will not hear the trial. The case is pending.

• Gina Brown v. WKU – Filed March 19, 2010

Brown was fi red from the university in Janu-ary 2009, and complained of a hostile envi-ronment based on her gender and race, and disparate treatment based on gender, race, age and retaliation. The case was set for a jury trial on May 15, but Brown’s attorney moved for it to be postponed.

• Raymond Elms v. WKU – Filed Nov. 10, 2010

Elms claimed his termination from WKU in October 2010 stemmed from age discrimina-tion. The discovery process is proceeding. The

WKU engaged in 9 on-going lawsuits

Bi-term proposal aims to help students graduate sooner

WKU is exploring the op-tion of emphasizing more bi-term courses instead of full semester classes.

The proposal was made public at Friday’s faculty convocation, entitled “An Increased Emphasis on Bi-term Learning at WKU?”

Written by a small com-mittee, the initiative was headed by Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.

“This idea is very much a ‘work in progress,’” Emslie said in the proposal.

Emslie said the earliest draft of the bi-term idea involved a full transition to bi-term courses. The most recent proposal focuses on exploring bi-term classes.

Of the roughly 2,800 course offerings listed on the university website, 5 percent are bi-term classes, according to the proposal.

Under the proposed sys-tem, students would take

only two or three classes lasting seven weeks, half of WKU’s traditional 14-week semester. After the fi rst bi-term, students would then select another two or three classes for another seven-week period.

The proposed bi-term scheduling would also change tuition payments to paying per-credit hour.

One of the biggest ben-efi ts touted in the proposal is the ability for students to easily graduate in three years instead of four.

“With this, you can take a full-time load with bi-terms plus a summer or winter course and graduate in three years,” President Gary Ransdell said of the plan.

Ransdell said these were “plans we have some de-gree of confi dence in, but they’re not absolute.”

Student Government As-sociation President Cory Dodds said he strongly disapproves of the current

proposal. “I just don’t see this pro-

posal being good for stu-dents,” Dodds said. “One of the pros the administration was trying to push off this schedule is that they would be more fl exible, but I don’t see how that’s possible.”

Dodds said he’d be okay with seeing more general education classes offered as bi-terms, but believes not all full-semester courses could adequately be taught in seven weeks.

“The scary part of what they’re proposing is that this academic calendar change is paired directly with per-credit hour tuition billing,” Dodds said. “That is very detrimental. I think it could have far reaching consequences for recruit-ing students, for revenue, for almost everything.”

Currently, Dodds is plan-ning a resolution in SGA that opposes the proposal, particularly the per-credit hour billing.

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case is currently pending before the court.

• Joe Martin v. WKU, Sodexo – Filed Feb. 10, 2011

Martin claimed WKU and Sodexo — a food and facilities management service WKU uses — ter-minated his employment in retaliation for Mar-tin fi ling a workers’ compensation claim. WKU fi led a motion for summary judgment. The case remains pending before the court.

• Marilyn Gardner v. WKU – Filed May 24, 2011

Gardner claimed WKU discriminated against her on the basis of disability and retaliation. This case is currently pending.

• Amy Eckhardt v. WKU – Filed July 11, 2011

Eckhardt claimed WKU violated the Kentucky Whistleblower Act and Kentucky Open Records Act. She also claims invasion of privacy and libel in relation to her termination from WKU on April 2011. The case remains pending before the court.

• Arianna Petty v. WKU – Filed Dec. 16, 2011

Former student Arianna Petty claimed she suffered physical and emotional damage from a fi ght with another female student. Petty also claimed WKU was negligent by not preventing the fi ght. WKU has fi led a motion to dismiss the case based on lack of jurisdiction. The Kentucky Board of Claims heard Petty’s claim and it grant-ed a motion for dismissal on March 5. The court gave Petty until May 21 to fi le an amended com-plaint. This claim is being held until the Circuit Court case is resolved.

• Cheryl Lewis-Smith v. WKU – Filed Jan. 30, 2012

Former employee Cheryl Lewis-Smith fi led a civil suit claiming WKU eliminated her position due to her race, age and as a result of retaliation for bringing discrimination concerns to the uni-versity’s attention. No other developments have occurred as of August 24.

recycling and sustainable practices. “The demolition contractor has to come in

and they have to separate materials,” he said. “They’ll put the metal together, they’ll recycle the ceiling tiles, they’ll take out the stone, they’ll take out the steel, and all those things go into different bins that has to be measured and accounted for.”

Achieving LEED certifi cation is a requirement for new construction projects at WKU. WKU is seeking a silver level LEED certifi cation for DUC.

There is still access to DUC on the Avenue of Champions side of the building, through the Annex.

The DUC Food Court is open during the renovation, accessible only on the Minton side, but Fresh Food Company has moved to Topper Cafe on South Lawn.

According to Tim Colley, Dining Services director, Fresh Food will be in Topper Cafe for the next school year until it moves back to DUC. The DUC Food Court and Red Zone will replace Fresh Food in the Topper Cafe for the 2013-2014 school year.

“So far the reaction to Topper Cafe has been very positive,” Colley said. “It’s different from what you anticipate when you see it from the outside. That’s what everybody has said.”

Topper Cafe owner, Mike Murphy, of Scott, Murphy, and Daniel Construction Company, will remove the facility and South Lawn will again be green space.

In addition to the DUC renovation, construction of Subway and Provisions on Demand at Bates-Runner Hall and Panda Express at Garret Conference Center also happened during the summer.

Subway, which opened on August 19, and Provisions on Demand, or POD, will be combined. POD is scheduled to open the fi rst week of classes.

Panda Express was delayed from opening at the start of the semester. It is now scheduled to open on September 23.

“There are always opportunities in construction projects for them to run late and this one has just run a little behind,” Colley said.

Arrests•Bowling Green se-nior Jordan Danridge was arrested on Aug. 26 for reckless driving, DUI and no operator’s license.•Versailles junior Lo-gan Vance was ar-rested for alcohol in-toxication in a public place on Aug. 25.Reports•Brentwood, Tenn. freshman Slade White was served a crimi-nal summons for as-sault and menacing through WKUPD on Aug. 26. White also received a citation for possession of alcohol by a minor.•Justin Lee McDole, Barnes Campbell, freshman, reported his Garmin GPS sto-len from his vehicle parked in Creason Lot on Aug. 26. The es-timated value of the GPS is $200.

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this summer, thanks in part to the new summer scholarship program.

Alicia Bingham, coor-dinator for Summer Ses-sions and Winter Term, said because of the scholarships, the head count for students was up this year.

“We feel like it helped a lot of students," Bing-ham said, “especially un-dergraduate seniors to be able to afford summer school.”

Gordon Emslie, provost

and vice president for Academic Affairs, said the number of under-graduate seniors that took six or more hours in the summer grew by 40 percent in 2012. Total summer session enrollment went up by about 1 percent, Emslie said.

The summer schol-arships offered one free credit hour for un-dergraduate students who were taking at least six hours and had a 3.0 GPA or higher. This scholarship gave the 1,100 students one

hour of tuition.Somerset junior

Lendee Sanchez re-ceived one of the schol-arships, but said she still had to take out student loans. Sanchez said she took classes on cam-pus rather than online because she wanted to be more hands-on and get back to WKU after studying abroad in the spring.

“It was my fi rst time in summer classes and I loved it,” Sanchez said. “They were very laid back, and the fact that I had one at a time over

three months made focusing on the work easier.”

WKU Summer Ses-sions reported 6,569 students took classes this summer, an in-crease of 56 additional students signing up this year.

Emslie said more stu-dents are signing up for summer sessions and they are taking more courses.

“When we ran the numbers, we found a lot students were here during the summer and were taking one

course,” Emslie said. “And we said, ‘Well, why not take two?’”

“So we said, if you take a second course, we’ll give you one hour of credit, essentially as a scholarship.”

The funds for these scholarships came from the Division of Extended Learning and Outreach’s budget. Emslie said the enroll-ment increase was enough to cover the costs.

Bingham said that while summer sessions can help students grad-

uate faster, obtaining fi nancial aid in the sum-mer is getting harder.

“So, we were just trying to come up with some-thing to help our stu-dents with that fi nancial burden because we do know that it’s well worth it,” Bingham said.

Emslie also said that there will be summer scholarships again next year.

“We’re very pleased that it contributed to summer enrollment and student success, and so it’s a good thing,” Emslie said.

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On behalf of the Student Government Association, I would like to welcome you to the Hill! Whether you are just beginning your journey or returning for the last time, I wish you the best this year.

Your time in college is, in addition to other things, a time of growth. The Hilltopper experience provides many opportunities for you to grow not only academically, but in other areas as well. I urge you to take advantage of the opportunities presented to you on the Hill. Reach outside your comfort zone and try something new. Since the next four years is a time for you to grow, my hope is that you achieve your full potential by taking an active part in student

life.My executive teammates and I have

several goals for the SGA this year. However, my biggest hope is that you choose to get involved with student government. As an organization, SGA has the opportunity to have a substantial impact on campus policy and issues that concern our students. However, without your voice and your concerns, we are losing out on valuable opportunities.

The decisions that are made within SGA both contribute to Western Kentucky University today and help safeguard the Hilltopper experience for future students. If at any time you have an issue or concern

that needs to be addressed, please feel free to email me directly at cory.dodds650@topper.wku.edu. The best way to address student concerns, however, is to get involved and directly seek a solution yourself. We hold various elections throughout the academic year. Feel free to contact the SGA offi ce (sga@wku.edu or 745-4354) to learn about how you can apply for one of our many positions. I look forward to talking with you.

As always, Go Tops!

Cory DoddsStudent Government Association President and Student Regent

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THE ISSUE: As the Downing University Center renovations con-tinue, our campus is in the midst of a major change and with that has come major construc-tion, building swaps and confusion.

OUR STANCE: The Col-lege Heights Herald has made changes, too, and has undergone a recon-struction of our own —all in the name of bring-ing better news and vi-suals to students.

By now students have arrived onto campus, into their dorms and settled into their apart-ments. Classes are under way and “syllabus days” are coming to an end. It is time for work, and if there is anything appar-ent looking around cam-pus, it’s that there is a lot of work going around.

Construction is the biggest topic coming into the semester. The Herald is going through major changes, too.

Many may notice that our paper has been re-designed into a bolder, more expressive format. The new front page al-lows for more color and more previews of inside content. Our masthead has been rebranded, and we are looking to make the paper appear as fresh as ever. The re-design, however, is not the only change.

This semester we will be implementing a Friday political page to keep students up to speed and informed on the 2012 presidential and state elections. The page will contain cam-paign news, an expert's corner, weekly student

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The political page is not the only new intro-duction for the paper, as the other sections of the papers will be imple-menting new changes as well.

The news section will be branching out from hyperlocal news to big-ger issues and national happenings.

Our diversions staff has expanded as well with a fashion column, fi nancial column and movie reviews. The staff will continue to feature students doing unusual, extraordinary, and in-teresting things. This se-mester, we also look to cover more topics that relate to the lifestyle of a college student.

Our photo staff is look-ing to gain a stronger on-line presence with deep-er stories. We will also be increasing multimedia video pieces that bring a new dynamic to the sto-rytelling that takes place on our campus.

Our sports staff will continue to bring you quality game coverage, of both home and road games. We will feature more of our WKU ath-letes and implement “Toppers in the Pros” that will cover and keep-sup with Hilltopper ath-letes as they continue their professional sports careers.

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The Lady Toppers rolled past their opponents to go undefeated in the Ball State Tournament this weekend in Muncie, Ind.

The fi rst game was a 3-0 win over Xavier on Friday. WKU (3-1) had possession for most of the game and took 25 shots against its opponents.

“I really liked the way we played,” coach Jason Neidell said. “Our girls came out and had two goals for the game.

“One was to win the possession battle and the other was to win 50/50 battle. I thought we did a terrifi c job possessing the ball.”

The fi rst goal came in the 29th minute when sophomore Allie Auscherman converted a pass from senior Amanda Buechel.

Later in the game, an opponent took Buechel down in

the box when she was looking toward the goal, which resulted in a penalty kick. Senior Ali Stakhle converted the kick.

Freshman Lauren Moats scored the third goal in the 83rd minute, putting the ball in the corner of the net.

The second game was a 2-1 win over Northern Kentucky on Sunday.

Buechel scored both goals, the fi rst coming in the fi fth minute when Buechel was at the top of the keeper box and put the ball in off a pass from Auscherman.

In the 71st minute, Buechel faced a one-on-one situation with NKU’s keeper, and shot the ball from the left into the right corner of the net.

WKU returns home on Sept. 9 to play Vanderbilt at 1 p.m.

— Natalie Hayden

SOCCER BRIEF

native who has separated him-self as a solid No. 3 back in camp and been praised by play-ers and coaches this fall, will join them.

Allen wasn’t allowed to talk to the Herald for this story, per a WKU football policy which pre-vents freshmen from talking to the media.

Simpson was listed as the the Toppers' No. 1 running back on the team depth chart released Monday at the team's weekly media luncheon.

However that doesn't mean only Simpson will play, coach Willie Taggart said.

"We'll have a rotation when we go in there, and as the game goes on we'll adjust," he said.

Andrews thinks Allen, along with the rest of WKU’s running backs, gives the Toppers great depth at the position.

“Coach Taggart’s been trying to pound that into the system for the longest time — a run-ning back by committee,” An-drews said. “Going through this fall camp, it’s starting to show that we’ve got a one-two-three punch, and even a one-two-

three-four punch if more guys step up.”

The running backs have had three weeks to prove them-selves to the coaching staff. Players reported to fall camp on Aug. 5 and practiced almost ev-ery day until camp concluded on Saturday.

Those three weeks have given all of the running backs time to work together, and Andrews said he and Simpson share a strong bond with the rest of the running backs.

“At the end of they day, we’re all best friends when we step out here on the fi eld,” he said. “We’re all competing for the fi rst spot, but we’re teammates.

“Me and Keshawn have been going at it since I’ve been here so it’s always great competi-tion.”

Rainey won’t be scoring touchdowns for the Toppers this year, but Taggart thinks the example he set remains a strength for WKU.

“They played with Bobby and I think it gives them some mo-tivation knowing that they can play with an NFL-caliber play-er,” he said. “They can see that Bobby went out and did some-thing and it’s on them to go out and do something now.”

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expectations for ev-erything and they ex-pected excellence,” he said. “That’s when it became crystal clear to me that that’s what I wanted to do.”

From there he sent resumes and cover let-ters to each NFL, NBA and MLB team, along with the pro golf and tennis tours.

He fi nally landed a seasonal internship with the Indianapolis Colts.

'In my heart'

Todd Stewart re-ceived six years of education at two ma-jor universities. He'd worked in an SEC me-dia relations depart-ment at UT and as a Colts intern.

So what was he mak-ing when the Colts cre-ated a full-time posi-tion for him in 1991?

“My starting salary was $15,000,” he said. “That’s not probably what you think about going to college.”

But the fact Stew-art was doing what he loved made salary less important, he said.

“I wasn’t doing it for the money, I was doing it because that’s what was in my heart and that’s what I enjoyed doing,” he said.

Stewart worked for the Colts from 1991-1999, writing press releases, marketing in the community and conducting interviews and press conferences.

During his time with the Colts, he served as a handler for quarter-backs Jim Harbaugh and Peyton Manning.

But Larry Hall, Colts VP of ticket sales, said much of Stewart’s im-pact came not in his work with stars, but in “shepherding” less heralded players who had never worked with

media.He did similar work

in Cleveland, Policy said.

“He started explain-ing that even the com-ments you make to your barber or your friend who lives next door can fi nd their

way into the press and perhaps even lose per-spective,” Policy said. “He found the right way to get across to these young athletes who needed coaching so badly in that par-ticular area.”

But Stewart’s ca-reer was altered when owner Randy Lerner released Stewart and the Browns’ other vice presidents in 2004.

His next job came in the college ranks as as-sociate commissioner of communications with the Sun Belt Con-ference, a role he held from 2005-2008.

During that time, one Sun Belt school stuck out to him, Colin Stewart said.

“We were discussing the conference and its teams and I remember him explicitly saying

that Western Kentucky had the most success-ful programs,” Colin said. “I think he was very impressed with the quality of people he met at WKU.”

'Don't settle, be proactive'

When Stewart was hired by WKU AD Wood Selig in 2008, one of the fi rst places he looked at was Smith Stadium’s press box.

The football Toppers were making the tran-sition from Division I-AA (now known as the Football Champi-onship Subdivision) to Division I-A (Football Bowl Subdivision).

WKU was still I-AA when it came to the press box, Stewart said.

“When you walked in that press box, it

didn’t say I-A,” he said. “We needed to paint it. We needed carpeting.

“We needed new chairs, we needed new countertops, we need-ed some signage and some logos up there… Dress it up.”

The press box reno-vation led by Stewart was one of the projects that put him in line for a promotion to senior associate AD in 2010.

Then when Bjork left for Ole Miss Stewart became interim re-placement.

It was that proba-tionary period when Stewart earned the full-time job, president Gary Ransdell said.

“I took my time with that search process on purpose,” Ransdell said. “Once I made Todd the interim AD I wanted suffi cient time to observe him.”

“…I could see a dif-ference in our athletic department.”

Ransdell spoke with some other candidates but didn’t invite any to WKU for formal inter-views, instead sticking with Stewart.

His fi ve-year con-tract grabbed atten-tion because of the $1 million buyout that must be paid should he leave before the end of the deal.

On the buyout, Rans-dell said, “I should’ve done that with Ross (who stayed for two years)."

“I want Todd to knock ‘em dead and I want people banging at the door to come af-ter him,” Ransdell said. “I think we can keep him, but if for whatev-er reason he does get lured away, someone’s going to have to pay serious money to even talk to him.”

Stewart said he was fi ne with the buyout, saying his wife, Rebec-ca, and son, Blake, 12, are happy at WKU and in Bowling Green.

As for his vision for the department, Stew-art has placed signs throughout Diddle Arena's athletic offi ces that read “Don’t settle, be proactive.”

Greater postsea-son success across all sports, sold out stadi-ums, perfect gradua-tion rates, NCAA com-pliance and continual facility improvements will be priorities for Stewart’s department, he said.

“Yes, we’ve had a lot of success and yes, we’ve achieved a lot, but don’t be content,” Stewart said. “There are things that we haven’t achieved that we can achieve and that’s really what we need to be focused on now.”

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WKU will have to defend Hillary Ply-bon, who was named to the Memphis All-Tournament team after posting 44 kills this weekend, averag-ing 2.93 kills per set.

Ashley Potts, the Sun Belt Conference preseason Defensive Player of the Year en-ters the match look-ing to add on to her already impressive start to the year as she leads the defense with 48 digs, 4.80 per set.

Austin Peay will be the second straight Ohio Valley Confer-ence opponent for the Lady Toppers, who earned their fi rst win of the season against Morehead State, 3-0, on Satur-

day night. Skinner, the de-

fending Sun Belt Play-er of the Year, said the fi nal match against Morehead State was the game they knew they had to win to set the tone for the year.

“On paper the other teams (University of Louisville and Penn State) were supposed to win,” Skinner said. “We knew that the Morehead game was the one we really had to win. I think we came back from those two losses, did what we had to do and played really hard.”

The Lady Toppers dominated the Lady Eagles from start to fi nish in the shutout (25-19, 25-16, 25-17).

Ashley Potts led the defense with 17 digs, followed by Skinner, who posted a double-

double, with 13 kills and 11 digs.

Skinner now has 26 double-doubles in her WKU career.

The Lady Toppers showed improve-ment from Friday night’s Louisville matchup when they played No. 3 Penn State on Saturday af-ternoon.

Penn State, the highest-ranked team on WKU’s schedule, used its height to sweep the Lady Top-pers 3-0.

That loss came after WKU lost to in-state rival Louisville 3-1.

“Right now it’s all about building your team this early in the year,” Hudson said. “I thought we built some great momen-tum against Penn State, and it carried over well in the More-head State match.”

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SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONEMay 25 — WKU baseball’s

Sun Belt title hopes ended with a 5-3 loss to South Alabama at Bowling Green Ballpark.

The Toppers fi nished 25-33, the team's worst since 2006.

June 24 — The NCAA denied WKU transfer Michael Bradley’s request to play in 2012-2013.

Bradley, a 6-foot-10 forward, will play at Vincennes University.

Aug. 3 — Swimmer Claire Do-nahue became the fi rst former WKU athlete to win an Olympic gold medal.

She swam the butterfl y leg of the 4x100 medley relay prelims in 58.05 seconds.

Aug. 9 — Former WKU running back Bobby Rainey made his NFL preseason debut with the Balti-more Ravens.

Rainey ran 12 times for 36 yards and caught three passes for 28 yards and a touchdown against the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta.

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AD Stewart comes from NFL past to lead WKU sports

Carmen Policy said it wasn’t a typical new team 'love affair' when he took over the Cleveland Browns in 1998.

The Browns would be coming back to the NFL in 1999 after a former owner moved the original Browns to Baltimore in 1995.

Despite the Browns' comeback, there was still 'saltiness' among fans and local media over the origi-nal move, Policy said.

So Policy, a former Super Bowl-winning executive, looked for a communications director to han-dle the delicate situation.

He hired Todd Stewart, then one of the top media relations men with the Indianapolis Colts.

Policy said it was one of the best moves he made in Cleveland.

“He was engaged in combat duty, so to speak, every day of the week and he just handled it with tre-mendous aplomb and maturity that seemed to be way beyond his years,” Policy said.

A decade and a half later, Stewart,

46, is back in the public eye, as he became WKU’s 15th athletic direc-tor on May 9.

Stewart had already been named interim AD in March after Ross Bjork left for Mississippi.

In the four years prior, Stewart had overseen WKU’s athletic me-dia relations offi ce and become No. 2 in the athletic power struc-ture.

While his selection was an in-ternal promotion rather than an external hire, he doesn’t want his employees “putting it on cruise control,” he said.

“Sometimes when someone gets promoted from within, there may be a feeling among some that the status quo is great and the status quo is acceptable,” Stewart said. “It’s not… There are things we can achieve that we haven't achieved before.”

A coach's son Todd Stewart’s career in athletics

began early in childhood.His father, Colin Stewart, was an

assistant basketball coach at Aus-

tin Peay for three years in the early 1970s.

Todd, who was in elementary school, went with his father on re-cruiting and scouting trips.

“He was really a joy sitting with coaches and keeping shot charts and statistics and seemed to have an understanding and a back-ground of the game for a very young boy,” Colin said.

Todd also traveled with the Aus-tin Peay team to nearby games, including those at WKU, as the Governors and Toppers were Ohio Valley Conference rivals then.

Being in locker rooms around college coaches and players also gave him “a foundation” for his fu-ture career, Colin said.

“He not only heard our discus-sions but sensed there are some ups and downs in this business,” Colin said.

Colin got out of coaching after Austin Peay and Todd, his young-er brother, Mark, and his parents moved back to Cincinnati, their hometown.

He grew up cheering for the Big Red Machine-era Cincinnati

Reds of the mid-1970s, playing the part of his Reds heroes like Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Pete Rose during backyard baseball games.

Todd played basketball and baseball while a student at Cin-cinnati’s Sycamore High School, though not with the success of his idols.

“I loved to compete and loved to play, but the scouting report would probably say ‘Stewart's very aver-age,’” Todd said.

While Todd wasn’t the team star, Colin said sports brought out qualities in his son that would pay future dividends.

“You couldn’t tell if he went 3-for-4 or 0-for-4," Colin said. “He was more interested in how the team did and he was very interest-ed in his teammates. Their success seemed to supersede anything he would do.”

Todd went to Miami (Ohio), ma-joring in communications before earning a master’s at Tennessee.

The UT experience set Todd on his career path, he said.

“…They had such high

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You might not recognize the WKU backfi eld when it takes the fi eld on Saturday against Austin Peay, but the loss of Bobby Rainey doesn’t mean the loss of the Topper running game.

As Rainey, WKU’s all-time leading rusher, continues playing for a Baltimore Ravens’ roster spot, WKU will trot out a full stable of running backs this season to replace the hole he left

in the offense.Two players in particular

have gotten the majority of the carries during practice — juniors Keshawn Simpson and Antonio Andrews.

Both backs bring a different skill set to the fi eld. Simpson considers himself a power running back, while the lighter Andrews believes his agility and fi nesse are his strongest attributes.

“We’re all really competitive,” Simpson said of the backs. “We’re all just trying to get more reps and lock up that starting spot.”

Simpson and Andrews haven’t spent the last two years riding the bench behind Rainey.

Both saw action on the fi eld last year — Simpson fi nished the season with 134 yards in eight games, while Andrews saw action at running back and as a kick returner, ending the year with 590 total yards.

In addition to running the ball, Andrews will probably see time as a kick returner for the Toppers this season as well.

Freshman running back John Evans, who is no longer with

the team, joined them in the backfi eld last season.

Simpson said he and Andrews both learned a lot playing behind Rainey.

“I’m really proud of him,” Simpson said. “He taught me a lot while he was here, and I know every guy on this team is rooting for him to do well up in Baltimore.”

While neither has been named as the starter for the fi rst game yet, both will probably see time in every game this year.

Freshman Leon Allen, a Miami

LOUISVILLE — After opening the season on the road, the Lady Toppers will come home to Diddle Arena for the fi rst time on Tuesday night.

WKU will welcome the Austin Peay Lady Governors at 7 p.m. Tuesday night in Diddle Arena.

The Lady Toppers head into this match up coming off a 1-2 start to the season after playing in the Active Ankle Challenge at the KFC Yum! Center over the weekend.

The Lady Govs enter Diddle at 1-3 after playing in the Memphis Invitational.

Lady Topper coach Travis

Hudson said his team will focus on identifying its own game heading into the home opener.

“We’re probably not even going to mention Austin Peay in practice,” Hudson said. “It’s early in the year so we’re really going to focus on us. We’ll watch some fi lm and work on the things we need to fi x from this weekend.”

Senior outside hitter Jordyn Skinner echoed her coach’s thoughts.

“At this early in the season it’s more about playing your game,” Skinner said. “We have to fi gure out the kinks and everything about us rather than worrying about what the other team is going to do.”

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get ready, get set, go greek!Sisters from each sorority lined up chanting

in the Mass Media and Technology Auditorium on Sunday.

These women, known as “Pi Chis” to disguise affi liation with any sorority — who led the 434 recruits around during recruitment week — shouted the chants of all eight social sororities that participated as a way to end the week.

Recruits had been handed bid cards by Pi Chis earlier in the day before signing with a sorority.

Alissa Mansfi eld, coordinator of student activities for Greek affairs, said 285 girls signed a bid.

The new members were gathered in Mass Media to celebrate and meet the rest of their

new sorority sisters.The ceremony began with an opening

statement by Paige Pardue, Panhellenic Association recruitment chair, wishing the new pledges well with their sorority.

“I’m so happy you all have found your place,” Pardue said.

The pledges spent time taking pictures with other new members, many holding up sorority signs with their fi ngers. Some of the girls embraced each other, excited about being chosen for the same sorority.

Hopkinsville sophomore Jennifer Hanks, a new member of Chi Omega, said she just transferred to WKU from another school.

“My favorite part of rush week has been getting my bid card and making new friends,” Hanks said.

In its ninth year, students are still lining up for Big Red’s Blitz.

The MASTER Plan event rounds up stu-dents to go out and volunteer at different or-ganizations around Bowling Green.

Students met at 9 a.m. Thursday and Presi-dent Gary Ransdell encouraged them as they left to volunteer, reminding them of the im-portance of volunteering.

Some of the volunteer organizations par-ticipating this year were Baptist Campus Ministry, the Bowling Green Humane Society and Helping Others Through Extended Love In the Name of Christ, or HOTEL INC.

At Bowling Green Humane Society, a popu-lar volunteer location, students bathed ani-mals, as well as walked and groomed them.

Lawrenceburg sophomore Caroline Mc-Dowell, chose to volunteer there because of her love for animals.

“Getting into this program showed me that there is always something that needs to be done in the community,” McDowell said.

Elizabeth Cooper, an adoption counselor for the Humane Society, said her work with the shelter started when she adopted a spe-cial needs cat fi ve years ago.

“I’ve always loved animals and everything that the Humane Society stands for,” Cooper said.

Cooper said she spends 40 hours on the clock and 20 hours off at the Humane Society.

“It’s very rewarding knowing that you’re making a difference in their lives,” Cooper said.

At HOTEL INC, incoming Louisville fresh-man Shavonne Salazar said she made col-lages so that the place would be homier.

HOTEL INC is a Christian organization that helps needy or homeless people in the Bowl-ing Green community.

“Volunteering here has taught me more about the services that they offer to the

homeless,” Salazar said. “I was homeless my senior year, so it’s defi nitely important be-cause everyone has a story.”

Salazar said she’s already made plans to continue volunteering at HOTEL INC.

Rhondell Miller, executive director of HO-TEL INC, sent a big thank you to all of the WKU students who volunteered their time.

“I would like students to know that they are welcome here to get their service hours or even if they need this service,” Miller said.

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One sorority, Alpha Xi Delta, conducted its fi rst formal recruitment since rejoining WKU’s greek life last year.

Even with the addition of AXiD, Mansfi eld said all eight social sororities met their quota for members.

Louisville senior Aman-da Heim, a member of Al-pha Delta Pi, was a Pi Chi during recruitment.

“I loved being able to meet and become friends with girls in other sorori-ties,” Heim said.

Louisville freshman Ol-ivia Guelda, a new mem-ber of Alpha Gamma Delta, said she’s glad she decided to rush.

“Sorority rush week gave me a way to meet new people and step out-side of my comfort zone,” Guelda said.

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Students who study abroad typical-ly only go for one se-mester, but Paintsville native Nate Hovee has made the trek abroad three times and is preparing for his next adventure. The Honors Col-lege student and fi fth-year senior took his fi rst trip abroad to Harlaxton College in spring of 2010. “I was doing the history class that is required, and I could actually travel to these places,” Hovee said. “I could see Ro-man ruins. I could go out and see St. Paul’s Cathedral, take a tour. I could go to the Na-tional Portrait Gallery and see the pictures

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Freshmen, on behalf of the College Heights Herald staff, welcome to Western Kentucky Uni-versity!

On a personal note, welcome to the best four years of your life.

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The Hill isn’t the same as it was three years ago. Believe it or not, when I came here in the fall of 2009, South Lawn ex-tended all the way from Downing University Cen-ter to the front of Preston Center. DaVinci’s was brand new, the food court at the bottom of cam-pus had ice cream and the fi tness center inside Preston didn’t exist. Gary Ransdell Hall was just a

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Nobody on the Hill can force you to make wise decisions, though we may have plenty of advice to offer.

Go to class. Get in-volved with a group. Don’t sit in your dorm room all day. Do your homework. Take those lanyards off your necks. Go to Great American Donut Shop at 3 a.m. (GADS is open 24/7, so feel free to go at any hour, really.) Shower. Please, oh please, shower. Study — not just the night before the test. Take your classes seriously. Ask for help when you need it. Get to know your RA and the people on your fl oor. Don’t use Facebook dur-ing class. Explore Bowl-ing Green. Take the pur-ple and yellow bus lines

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College is all about change — embrace it.

The campus you see to-day won’t be the campus your friends and family visit for your commence-ment ceremony. More importantly, you won’t be the same person you are today.

The Hill is what you make it, so choose to make it the best.

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you would normally see in a slideshow or a textbook. And that made it more interest-ing.” The following year Hovee attended Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. Hovee, 23, is a broadcasting ma-jor concentrating in television/fi lm pro-duction and is a self-proclaimed nerd. So being where “The Lord of the Rings” was fi lmed, was special for him. “I auditioned for ‘The Hobbit,’ I went to a casting call,” he said. “I didn’t get in, but it was just really exciting to be in the culture capitol of New Zealand.” In June, he trav-eled to Paris with Kerry Northrup’s col-

laborative journalism class. Hovee said he fi lls out scholarship and grant applications daily to fund his trav-els. He’s able to fi nd things to apply for by working with advis-ers in his department along with the study abroad offi ce, fi nan-cial aid and the offi ce of scholar develop-ment. This fall he will spend time in Istan-bul. “I’m customizing my education to really make the most of my experience at West-ern,” he said. “It may have taken me fi ve years to get through it, but those fi ve years were spent doing so many things out of the box. I’m only in-vesting in myself.”

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Greetings, freshmen, and welcome back, returnees, to another round of the highs and lows that fi t the defi nition of college life. I hope you all enjoy your stay.

As you’re all well aware, we’re living in tumul-tuous times, and the future is looking pretty bleak. The national unemployment rate has been steady this year at around 8.3 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Once some of you graduate you’ll be part of the new norm of alumni who have to return home because the jobs associated with their four-year degree will either offer a paltry sal-ary, bar you from entering because of lack of experience, or have dried up. Scary thoughts, huh?

But there’s no need to panic. It can get bet-ter. All it takes is a better understanding of the fi nancial world so you can be the architect of your own fi nancial destiny. That’s what this column is designed to do.

After graduating from WKU with a journal-ism degree in 2005, I bounced between news-paper and radio work for fi ve years. I fi nally decided to return to WKU in 2011 to pursue a bachelor’s in business administration.

Throughout the school year, I’ll tackle sev-eral topics that will have an impact on your money, such as debt, loans, banking, invest-ing and insurance. I’ll break down the fi nan-cial jargon, complex rules and regulations into an easy-to-digest format. Then, I’ll give you the informa-tion you need to stretch your dol-lar further. Here are a few tips for starters:

• Budget your money Like I said, your money has to

last, and the best way to do that is to grocery shop outside of campus. The food inside Garrett Conference Center and Downing University Center is great, but it’s also very expensive. As an alter-native, go to Kroger with a shop-per’s card. You’re able to get a lot of the food you want at budget prices. For even bigger savings, shop the in-store brand name instead of the popular brand. It’s virtually the same food but cheaper

• Plan for the unexpected Whether you think it’ll happen or not, there

will always be unexpected costs creeping around the corner, so plan for them. Set some emergency money aside for whatever disas-ter or surprise expense may come your way. You’ll be glad you did.

With these tips in mind, I hope you’ll become more aware of how to better spend your money. But this is merely scratching the sur-face.

With the personal fi nance world being so vast and my knowledge in it being so limited, I’ve asked Dr. Harold Little, an associate profes-sor at the Gordon Ford College of Business, and Financial Planning Program Director Andrew Head to assist me in getting to the heart of the topic.

I’m going to ask you, the readers, to do something as well. If you have

any questions regarding your own fi nances — it doesn’t matter if it’s as

simple as interest rates or the many fl avors of annuities — please send them to diversions@wkuherald.com and I’ll try to answer them in future columns. After all, the more you know about your money, the more you’ll be able to keep in your pocket.

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Step-brothers Sederick Grant and Chris Jones can easily peg the song “Every Day I’m Hustlin’” as their an-them.

The Louisville natives started a business called The Anything Shop, “where anything means anything as long as it’s le-gal.”

From public transit to computer and cell phone repair, to a mobile barber and professional tattoo art-ist, The Anything Shop of-fers a variety of services to students and the Bowling Green community.

The shop charges a $5 fi rst destination fee and 50 cents per mile. The second destination is $3.

Grant said their go-get-ter mentalities birthed the business.

“We’ve always been hus-tlers,” he said. “We just grind hard.”

When a shoulder injury halted a possible football career at Western Kentucky University, Grant took a job at Burger King.

Jones, 21, was studying at Kentucky State University before moving to Bowling Green and getting an apartment with his step-brother.

“We had been going through hard times and we were thinking about how we can get money,” he said. “We knew we had to come up with something big.”

Jones came up with The Anything Shop in the shower.

The duo donated plasma to buy business cards and monogrammed polos, but they needed more help on the fi nancial side.

When Grant’s boss heard his idea, he said the Carrol Knicely Confer-

ence Center could help them write a business plan. However, it was the Center for Research and Devel-opment that put them on the right track.

The pair signed a contract with the Small Business Accelerator program in February. The program provides business support services and community resources during

the start-up period, ac-cording to the develop-ment center’s website.

The Center for Re-search and Develop-ment granted them offi ce space and a mentor for one year. Community Ventures, a small business lender, also gave them a loan.

Grant said having mentors has really made them think to-ward the future.

“They made us ask the questions now that we would’ve had to ask later,” he said.

Jones said it feels good to be able to pick their brains.

Although the men withdrew from school, they said they’re confi -dent that The Anything Shop can go global.

“This service isn’t just needed in Bowling Green,” Grant said. “It’s needed all over the world.”

They are also looking to hire more employees.

“We want to give other people jobs,” he said. “We want to be an in-spiration and eventually give back to charity.”

Grant and Jones will host a bas-ketball tournament on Sept. 15 at College Suites. Teams of fi ve can sign up for a $20 entry fee per player. The winners will get $500 and a free dinner at Cheddar’s Casual Cafe.

To contact The Anything Shop, call 888-519-5132.

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JONES

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