Oct. 22, 2013, College Heights Herald

BY JACKSON [email protected]

Damage to rails, benches and even artwork on campus has caught the at-tention of university administrators.

The culprit, they say? Skateboards.Howard Bailey, vice president of

student affairs, said WKU is trying to fi gure out how to monitor skateboard “vandalism.”

“We’ve had quite a bit of damage done to very expensive areas of cam-pus that was committed by individuals on skateboards,” he said. “Some mar-ble has been chipped, some irreplace-able things have been damaged by the use of skateboards,” Bailey said.

Much of the damage is attributed to the act of riding a skateboard down the rails, called grinding.

Plant operations manager Dale Dyer said skateboard damage is a ma-jor maintenance issue.

“The damage is continuous,” Dyer said. “Most of our rails are steel, and we spend a lot of time keeping those painted.”

He said there has been a lot of dam-age done to rails and segments of stonework since the start of the semes-ter.

“We painted about 80 percent of the rails on campus over the summer, and some of those are already in rough shape due to the skateboards,” Dyer

said.“One ride down [from] the top of a

rail with a skateboard and there’s nomore paint left,” he said.

Dyer also said grinding down a rail can leave jagged edges in the metalwith the potential to cause hand inju-ries.

Once jagged edges appear on rails, Dyer said they have to be ground downfor the sharp edges to be taken off.

He said some of the newer rails on campus near the Music Rehearsal Hallhave been constructed with the pre-vention of vandalism in mind.

“The newer handrails in some cases have had, purposely, pieces of metalwelded on them that would prohibit askateboard,” he said.

President Gary Ransdell said the damage is a problem that needs to beaddressed.

“If they just stay on the streets and the sidewalks, that’s fi ne,” Ransdellsaid. “But when they start doing dam-age to the campus, we’ve got to addressthat.”

Ransdell said he has asked facili-ties staff and campus police to addressskateboard vandalism when they see it.

“When we see a skateboarder do-ing something dangerous to himself orto others, we need to call them on it,”Ransdell said.

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Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is cur-rently under investigation by the of-fi ce of Student Activities.

Howard Bailey, vice president of Student Affairs, said allegations of violations to the student code of conduct were raised over fall break. The investigation of the fraternity wrapped up Friday afternoon, he said.

Multiple sources told the Herald the organization is under investi-gation for hazing. But Bailey and Charley Pride, director of Student Activities, could not confi rm this.

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Early next semester, Hillcrest Apartments and the Chi Omega sorority house, both on Normal Street, will be no more.

Both buildings are being demol-ished to make room for a building that will house the Honors College and International Center upon its completion.

Bryan Russell, director of Plan-ning, Design, and Construction, said WKU purchased and currently owns both buildings.

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WKU has seen another alumnus into the music industry. Louisville native Jordan Minton, who gradu-ated in 2012, has gone on to begin making a name for himself.

Minton played at Lost River Pizza Co. on Thursday night, Oct. 17 in support of his upcoming album “Let Us Get Away.” The album will drop this Tuesday, Oct. 22, and hard copies will be available at his shows and Mellow Matt’s Music & More.

Minton will also be play-ing at the Augenstein Alum-ni Center from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday before the Homecoming game.

Minton said he is ecstatic to have his dream of releas-ing an album come to frui-tion.

“I’m so excited for the release. It still sounds really weird to say that it’s happen-ing,” Minton said. “It’s been a dream for a while now, and the fact that it’s happening is still surreal. I’m just excited to have my music acces-sible.”

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“Our staff feels that there are strong indications that some improprieties have possibly occurred,” Bailey said.

Pike President Bret Parks said the in-vestigation is a private matter, and that the fraternity as of Sunday had not yet had their fi nal meeting with university offi cials about the investigation.

Pride and Kenneth Johnson, assis-tant director of Student Activities, in-terviewed between 40 to 50 people for the investigation, Bailey said.

Once the interviews are reviewed, Bailey said action may be taken against the organization.

Because of activities related to Homecoming, Bailey said the under-staffed Student Activities offi ce hasn’t had the chance to compile all of the information into writing.

Pride said Student Activities has been lucky in the past few years, with relatively few Greek investigations having taken place.

But after allegations are brought to his offi ce’s attention, Pride said they begin to investigate and determine if a violation took place by conducting interviews.

“If you are a student, you are re-quired to work with us,” Pride said.

Pride said the two most common violations that are investigated are al-cohol abuse and hazing.

As defi ned in the student code of conduct, “Western Kentucky Uni-versity defi nes hazing as any action, physical abuse or creation of a situ-ation which recklessly or intention-ally endangers the mental or physical health of a participant by any person.”

The code of conduct also states, “Members of the university commu-nity recognize that a violation of any federal, state and local laws governing the use and possession of alcoholic beverages, including off-campus, is prohibited.”

The Interfraternity Council, of which Pike is a member organiza-tion, is the governing body for WKU's fourteen North-American Interfrater-nity Conference fraternities. Pride said while the council could take action if a fraternity is found to be in violation of a policy, often times IFC defers to the university.

“Peer on peer often times doesn’t work out,” Pride said. “I think they would prefer the university who has more practice doing it.”

are still being utilized, which was part of the original contractual agreement between the owners and WKU,” he said.

Russell said Chi Omega is relocating to a house on Chestnut Street.

“The university worked with their organization and presented many op-tions along the course of the last cou-ple of years to fi nd a property that met their needs and then met our needs as well, so it was a win-win for both orga-nizations,” he said.

The university purchased the prop-erty on which Hillcrest Apartments cur-rently occupies for $950,000 over the summer, the appraised value excluding closing costs. An agreement between the property owner and the university was made after the regents adopted a resolution authorizing the exercise of eminent domain on April 26.

Russell said construction on the new building is scheduled to begin in early February, after the house and the apartment complex are demolished.

India graduate student Suresh Lokre, who lives in Hillcrest Apartments, said he doesn’t know where he’s going to move when everyone is forced to leave during the last week of December.

“I’m still looking for a place, but I haven’t got any,” he said.

Lokre said he needs to fi nd a new place close to campus because he doesn’t have a car.

“We international students, you know, we try to look for the places with-in the campus so that we don’t have to travel longer distances,” he said.

Nashville senior and Hillcrest resi-dent Cori Haber said she is opposed to the building being torn down.

“I disagree with Western and taking over just because they think it’s emi-nent domain,” she said. “I think pre-serving it would be better just because it’s been here for so long and been part of Western’s campus for so long.”

Craig Cobane, executive director of the Honors College, said he expects the building to be constructed on top of the gravel parking lot, formerly home to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house, between Hillcrest Apartments and the Chi Omega house.

He said the new facilities will be comprised of one building and some green space, adding that there will be little parking space near the new build-ing.

Cobane said there is a misconcep-tion that the building will only serve as an honors facility.

“I think one of the misnomers is that this is an honors building,” he said. “I believe square footage-wise, barely a third of the building is going to be used for honors units.”

He said the new building will pri-

marily be “a place for international stu-dents.”

“Currently, the generic name for it is the Honors College and International Center, and it will house almost all the international programs,” he said.

Cobane said these programs in-clude Navitas, English as a Second Language International, Study Abroad, Global Learning, and the Kentucky In-stitute for International Studies.

He said the international student offi ce will also be located in the new building to assist international stu-dents with whatever problems they may have.

“These international students, they’re coming from all over the world and they often like to be able to con-nect with people who are sharing the same kinds of experiences, so it gives them sort of a place on campus,” Co-bane said.

He said the building will also in-clude a café he hopes will serve a vari-ety of international foods.

Cobane said he hopes the Honors College and International Center will help domestic students connect with students from other countries. He said he wants the building to foster interna-tional friendships and inspire students to study abroad.

“I want every student who walks into that building to see that the pri-mary idea is that this building is a gate-way to the world,” he said.

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BY LAUREN [email protected]

There was a packed house as the Music City Lightning took the court at the Wheel-chair Basketbrawl Challenge in the Preston Center.

Three bleachers, spilling with students, sat near the basket as other newfound fans stood along the side-lines.

The Lightning, a wheel-chair basketball team out of Nashville, played a scrim-mage and then invited stu-dents to play.

Chicago freshman Co-rey Stevens worked up the nerve to get in the game.

“I just wanted to see how it feels to get to go up and down the court in a wheel-chair and play basketball because I’ve been playing all my life, able to use my two legs,” Stevens said. “I just wanted to see and feel the difference.”

Stevens said he now has a better appreciation for peo-ple in wheelchairs.

“I can honestly say you’ve got to be in more shape in a wheelchair than actually on your legs, because you’ve got to have good upper body strength because that’s all you use is your upper body,” Stevens said. “It’s a lot of hard work.”

Elizabethtown senior An-drea Weaver said her arm

strength wasn’t up to snuff to compete with the profes-sional team.

“It’s really hard,” Weaver said. “They make it look really easy. When you get out there, it’s really, really hard pushing and trying to hold the basket-ball. When you try to shoot, you can’t jump, can’t do any-thing. But I tried.”

After playing alongside the Lightning, Stevens said

disabled people shouldn’t be underestimated.

“I respect them more,” Stevens said. “I don’t take their game as a joke. They are capable of doing it just as well as we are.”

Hopkinsville freshman Damion Wheeler said he’d seen the wheelchair sport on TV before and wanted to see it live.

Although Wheeler said

the Lightning outplayed him and the other students that got in the game, it was still a fun learning experience.

“I just noticed that no matter if you have a dis-ability, if you want to work hard and do what you got to do, there ain’t nothing you can’t do,” Wheeler said. “Now I just realize that they’re just people just like we are.”

That dream began when Minton was going into high school, learning to play the drums. That quickly evolved into the guitar, and then, leading the worship band in his church.

He said that worship was a strong way to begin his music enterprise be-cause it kept him humble, reminding him that his performance is for the audience, not himself.

Bowling Green got its Jordan Min-ton debut when he was a junior at WKU and was playing in local venues, like Hilligan’s and Mellow Mushroom. Minton said he was able to build a fan base out of similar crowds that revis-ited the venues he played in.

Minton is not the fi rst artist to get his start in Bowling Green. Bands like Cage the Elephant and the up-and-coming Buffalo Rodeo experienced similar bar and restaurant crowds.

Their success has provided inspi-ration for Minton.

“It’s encouragement, because no matter where you come from, people are going to listen to your music, and they’re going to enjoy it,” he said.

Danville senior Morgan Kidwell is a fan and said she thinks Minton offers an original take on pop music.

“I think Jordan’s music is likable for a lot of people because he has a style of a lot of popular artists,” she said. “But he has a unique sound to it.”

Minton categorizes himself as a singer/songwriter with lyrically based music. He said he would put his genre somewhere between folk and pop, fi nding inspiration for his music from listening to Nashville artists of similar styles.

“I like to tell stories through songs. Sometimes, they’re about my life and people I’ve met,” he said. “Sometimes, they’re fi ctional. And sometimes, they’re real life, but I always try to make them relatable."

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Participants and WKU students wait for a rebound during the Wheelchair Basketbrawl Chal-lenge at Preston Center on Thursday, Oct. 17. The Wheelchair Basketbrawl Challenge was presented by Student Disability Services as part of Disability Awareness Month. DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/HERALD

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Bailey said that is diffi cult.“It never happens in the presence

of a person in authority, so you don’t know who did it,” Bailey said.

He said several pieces of artwork have been damaged since the begin-ning of the semester.

“We are very fortunate that we have some visible stand-up art on campus,” he said. “A few of those artworks have been chipped where someone ran the skateboard axle against them.”

Damage done to the “On the Point” sculpture on the Hill was reported in the campus crime reports on Aug. 30. The newest sculpture on campus was moved from downtown Bowling Green, where the piece had a previous history of being a popular attraction for local skaters, art department head Brent Oglesbee told the Herald in Sep-tember.

Ransdell said there are currently no plans to ban skateboarding, but that may change if the problem continues.

“If skateboarders continue to abuse the privilege, I wouldn’t rule it out,” Ransdell said.

Owensboro freshman William Lind-sey, a skateboarder, said the idea of the university banning skateboards is ri-diculous.

Lindsey said his skateboard is his primary mode of transportation around campus.

“I understand they don’t want us grinding on stuff but banning it en-tirely, just riding around on them, is ridiculous,” he said.

Bailey said it’s a diffi cult issue.“So we struggle with how to have a

policy that doesn’t take everyone that enjoys using a skateboard’s privilege away from them because of the deeds of a few,” he said.

Adding to the diffi culty is that some of the students committing the dam-age may not be WKU students.

But Bailey said he doesn’t want to see a campus-wide skateboard ban.

“I assume it’s a lot of fun zooming down the hill,” Bailey said.

Reporter Trey Crumbie and Tyler Prochazka contributed to this story.

Arrests:• Police arrested Brentwood,

Tenn., sophomore Ray Nash in Mc-Cormack Hall for possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, pos-session of an unspecifi ed controlled substance of the fi rst-degree and of the third-degree on Oct. 18.

• Police arrested La Vergne, Tenn., freshman Jacob Ryan Steelman, Po-land Hall, on Avenue of Champions for alcohol intoxication a public place on Oct. 19.

• Police arrested Shelby Smith for an e-warrant out of Jessamine Coun-ty at the Housing and Residence Life offi ce on Oct. 17.

• Police arrested Louisville fresh-man Richard Rudolph, Northeast Hall, for receiving stolen property under $10,000, tampering with physical evidence, and possession of marijuana at Preston Center/North-east Hall on Oct. 16.

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BY CASEY [email protected]

In March of 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which outlines goals of improving health care quality with lower costs to consumers.

Many Americans are buzzing about the Affordable Care Act and what it means for them, since enrollment sites opened this month.

Those on the health care admin-istration track at WKU are learning about the inner workings of the health care system, focusing on how the bill will affect patient care and the pay-ment system.

Gregory Ellis-Griffi th, assistant pro-fessor of public health, is the director for undergraduate health care admin-istration. Since he came to WKU in Au-gust of 2010, he has worked with stu-dents to outline challenges presented by the bill and develop strategies to face these problems head on.

Students are also working to under-

stand the advantages presented for the health care industry through the Af-fordable Care Act.

“It was October 2010 when huge chunks of it started to come into ef-fect and a big part of it was discussing how the changes occur,” Griffi th said. “In the U.S., we tie health insurance to our jobs, but with the ‘Great Reces-sion,’ numerous people were losing their jobs.

“This was happening at the same time health insurance premiums were skyrocketing. So if you look at these two main events occurring, you could almost predict something major was going to have to come out of Wash-ington to deal with it. And that’s when they came up with the Affordable Care Act.”

Kentucky is one state on the fore-front for the Affordable Care Act as it is the only state in the South to fully implement these provisions. The com-monwealth is being closely monitored by the federal government to track progress and ensure that proper pro-

cedures are followed. According to a site for the U.S. De-

partment of Health and Human Ser-vices, some key features of the act in-clude discounts for seniors citizens, protection against health care fraud and free yearly wellness visits.

There are also new policies to pro-tect consumers. One law is that insur-ance agencies must justify the need for policy rate increases of 10 percent or more before they can be implemented.

The Affordable Care act also pre-vents consumers from disqualifi cation based on pre-existing health condi-tions.

“Let’s say if when you were a teen-ager you had bad acne,” Griffi th said. “The insurance company could go back in your records, pull the fact that you once had acne and say they’re not going to cover this skin cancer you have. And they can’t do that anymore.”

The Affordable Care Act also makes promises that women will no longer pay more than men for health insur-ance, as their rates historically tend to be higher. This particular change will take affect in January.

One provision that affects many college students is the extension of dependent health care coverage. The maximum age to remain on the same plan as parents was extended from 22 to 26.

Griffi th says its policies like this that are showing a statistical increase of those covered under dependent health care. His classes evaluate such changes in numbers and discuss why it’s hap-pening.

Sasha Hasanagic, a Bowling Green senior majoring in health care admin-istration, has been studying policies of the Affordable Care Act.

“Health care is always changing — it’s very complex,” Hasanagic said. “I think in the long run, there will be positive changes. Eventually it should boost the economy.”

While there are positive possibili-ties for the Affordable Health Care Act, there are many challenges along the way. One major issue that health care administrators are dealing with is the implementation of re-admission fi nes.

The Affordable Care Act states that hospitals with patients re-admitted within 30 days are subject to penalties. The reasoning behind the law is that patients should receive a higher qual-ity of care, remaining at health facilities until they are in optimal condition.

This is leading to a higher demand for ACOs, Accountable Care Organi-zations, developed to provide proper care for patients with long-term health issues. These organizations are cur-rently run by volunteers in the health care industry, designed to serve those enrolled in Medicare programs.

Hospitals are also struggling to fi ll orders for procedures like MRIs, which were fi lled by volume in the past but are now evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

“People doing their residencies talk about the stress that’s overtaking man-agement because of these changes,” Griffi th said. “It’s a very trying time to be in the health care industry.

“This is not an industry where you want to go to work every day and deal with the same thing over and over. If you want a job like this health care is not for you, because right now it is in a state of change.”

Enrollment for health care through the Afford-able Care act is available until March. Health cov-erage benefi ts will begin in January. Kentuckians can enroll for insurance through the website ky-nect.ky.gov.

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BY BEN [email protected]

In 1976, Brian De Palma brought “Carrie” to terrifying life in a fi lm con-sidered by many as a classic of the hor-ror genre.

Oscar-nominated performances and still timely themes surrounding reli-gion and teen bullying have cemented De Palma’s “Carrie” as one of the most well-respected horror fi lms of the past 40 years.

With such a reputation to live up to, Kimberly Peirce’s 2013 “Carrie” feels as though it's afraid to be different, much like its teen protagonist.

Wrongly billed as a “re-imagining” of Stephen King’s classic novel, “Carrie” tells the story of a sheltered high school girl who discovers that she has teleki-netic powers after being bullied and ridiculed by her classmates.

If kids with cell phones speaking dif-ferent slang are all that set this “re-imag-ining” apart from De Palma's original, then Peirce and her creative team need detention and prom privileges revoked.

While teen angst is as timely as ever, especially in today's cyber age, Peirce doesn’t bring much to the table in terms of presentation.

The production design, from Car-rie’s house, to the school and the prom, looks and feels exactly like the original.

The script, from original “Carrie” screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen and

“Glee” producer Roberto Aguirre-Saca-sa, features dialogue that sounds verba-tim to Cohen’s 1976 screenplay.

That being said, the three new scenes tacked onto the script were executed rather well.

The fi lm’s chilling opening sequence features Carrie’s mother, Margaret White (Julianne Moore) wailing for help and forgiveness from a bed strewn with bloodstained sheets.

The several religious icons and gro-tesquely melted candles lend a creepy Gothic vibe to a bizarre scene that con-cludes with Margaret giving birth to Carrie in the bed.

Later on, after Carrie fi nally accepts Tommy Ross’s invitation to prom, she gleefully goes to a store to pick out fab-ric for a dress — giving the audience a glimpse of how she feels coming into her own, despite an abusive mother and mean classmates.

Give all credit to Chloe Grace Moretz

for stepping out of Sissy Spacek’s shad-ow and making this role her own.

With every timid look, smile and tear shed, her emotions feel genuine and confi dent — qualities sorely lacking from the rest of the production.

As for Margaret, Moore is the only choice for the character made famous by Piper Laurie’s grim, Oscar-nominat-ed performance.

Since I only fi rst saw the original after fi nding out about this remake, I could only see Moore whenever Laurie was onscreen.

Moore is nothing short of terrifying in her turn as Carrie’s religious fanatic mother.

Though it’s well acted, Peirce's “Car-rie” is an unnecessary impersonation of a superior fi lm with important themes that still hold up today.

Save yourself the price of a prom tick-et and watch the superior 1976 version of “Carrie” on Netfl ix this Halloween.

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Health care majors confront challenges of Obamacare

BY KAELY [email protected]

President Gary Ransdell made a guest appearance at Thursday’s faculty Senate meeting to discuss a budget model being drafted by Kentucky uni-versity presidents.

According to the latest version of the model, the universities are collectively asking for more than $52 million for the 2014-2015 school year to help pay for operating costs. Of that, WKU would receive roughly $7 million.

For the 2015-2016 school year, the universities are requesting more than $68 million.

State funding for higher education has continued to decrease for the last 11 years statewide, despite state-approved tuition increases. With this model, all universities are requesting more money for higher education for the upcom-ing business biennium, in addition to funding they will already receive.

“We’ve been putting a lot of work into this model, and this process gets a little crazy sometimes because you try to arrive at something that eight uni-versities and the Kentucky Community

and Technical College system can try to agree on,” Ransdell said.

He said the administrators are work-ing to agree upon a fi nal draft of this model that will be sent to the Council on Postsecondary Education before being sent to the state governor and the state general assembly. The fi gures pre-sented in the model on Thursday were not fi nalized fi gures.

The operating fund request consists of several categories: college and ca-reer readiness, research and economic development, degree production, the Kentucky Adult Learner Initiative and University of Kentucky/Kentucky State University Land Grand Mission Funds.

Ransdell said his priorities for this request begin with obtaining degree production funding. This form of fund-ing allows for more fl exibility than the other categories creating the operation fund request.

“You heard President Ransdell say this was his biggest priority,” Ann Mead, senior vice president for fi nance and administration, said. “The rea-son for that is that we will be given the maximum fl exibility on how we earned it, the maximum fl exibility on how we

spend it.” If the model request were to be fund-

ed as is, WKU would be putting almost $2 million of their $7 million toward Degree Production funding, receiving the third highest percentage of funding of all participating state universities.

More money for capital projects is also being requested by the universi-ties. The universities are currently re-questing more than $600 million, ac-cording to the latest model.

Of that, roughly $70 million would go toward WKU. This funding would come in the form of bonds, which would be sold with proceeds of the sale going toward the university.

Money for capital projects goes to-ward campus improvement, including the construction of new buildings or building renovations.

The two principal categories of the budget model, capital and operating, can also be approved or denied sepa-rately.

If the capital funding in particular is approved, WKU would use $48 million toward science campus renovations.

Science campus renovations have been previously funded through the

state and have since halted due to the state funding decreases.

“Renovation of the science campus was such a large endeavor, the state chose to fund it in phases,” Mead said.

Receiving this funding would begin phase four of the renovation process.

“Our number one priority, and we’ve said it as long as it’s been out there since 2006, is the renovation of the center wing of Thompson Complex,” Ransdell said. “We’ve got to fi nish up the trans-formation of our science facilities.”

Ransdell also announced he will be holding a question and answer session regarding this funding model on Nov. 7 at 3:45 p.m. in Snell Hall. Questions were not taken during Thursday’s senate meeting. All information divulged at the meeting is not fi nal, however, as more work is being done for the fi nal draft be-fore it is sent to the state government.

“The next step is for us to achieve an agreement on what are the priorities if we only get $20 million, or if we only get $10 million, or $30 million, what are the priorities within these variables we will put that money toward, and that’s going to be a real battle between us,” Ransdell said.

WKU, other universities ask for more than $600 million

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New limit to priority registration unfairTHE ISSUE:THE ISSUE: Gordon

Emslie, provost and vice president for Academic Af-fairs, said last week that students with priority reg-istration, excluding seniors and graduate students, will be limited to signing up for 16 hours of classes this spring instead of the full 19 hours formerly guaranteed to persons with disabilities, honors students and ath-letes.

OUR STANCE: This deci-sion is a poor one. It does not promote initiative within what is arguably one of WKU’s biggest academic assets, nor is it fair, limiting students who came to WKU with the promise of full pri-ority registration to partial priority registration.

We were informed last Thursday that one of those reasons is about to be lim-ited in the upcoming regis-tration for spring semester classes.

This decision is a mistake for several reasons.

First, student opinion was never solicited for what is essentially an entirely stu-

dent-centered issue.The Student Government

Association hasn’t spoken about imposing a limit on priority registration. It’s never even been an issue for debate.

There was no poll on TopNet — not even a semi-annoying, ignored paper questionnaire outside Fresh Food Company, like they do with what cereals we want each semester.

There was no student dis-cussion on this issue. In-stead, Emslie decided on this policy change.

Second, this is unfair to any freshman, sophomore or junior honors student who came to WKU expect-ing priority registration up to 19 hours.

Emslie said in a Herald ar-ticle Thursday that some of these students were using the system to register for six classes then dropping one each semester.

And that is an excellent point to be considered, because it fi lls up seats in classes that other students might want to take.

But what about the stu-

dents triple majoring who need the full 18 or 19 hours each semester to graduate on time?

Naturally, the opposition would respond, “Yes, but how many students are in that situation?”

Um, hello? We’re talk-ing about honors students here, the same ones ap-plying for Fulbright Grants and spending semesters in Brazil.

Third, this is just not what these students have paid for — including athletes and students with disabili-ties.

They were promised something by this uni-versity, and they have the right to do with those 19 promised hours what they please, which includes dropping a class each se-mester.

We’re aware of the bit-terness that exists from some students over the fact that honors get fi rst dibs on classes. We realize that for some people reading this editorial, this change seems totally fair to limit some of the “preferential

treatment” that WKU be-stows on its students in the Honors College.

So to be clear, there are bright, gifted individuals seeking three majors and changing the world inside and outside of the Honors College. We’re not trying to say that all the smart stu-dents are in the Honors College, so their interests ought to be protected.

We simply wish to point out that there are clearly a lot of bright students in the Honors College that will one day bolster the reputa-tion of WKU through their future careers.

And to further clarify, not all of us on this editorial board are honors students, but we can all see the value in retaining a policy guar-anteed to students who very well may need to use it.

There’s a reason that the adage goes, “You get what you pay for.”

It’s just plain right.

This editorial represents the majority of the herald's 9-member editorial board.

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This column is supposed to be ex-clusively about fashion, but because the fashion scene on WKU’s campus hasn’t changed drastically since the last time I wrote, I will devote this space to talking about women’s magazines in relation to fashion, beauty and fi tness.

I remember my grandfa-ther buying my fi rst magazine when I was 6 years old. Later, as I grew up and my interests changed, my choice of maga-zines changed with me. How-ever, since that fi rst Barbie magazine in 1997, I have never stopped reading, and my inter-est in monthly glossies has turned into a career.

Pretty much everything about women’s fashion and lifestyle maga-zines attracts readers — the beautiful photos, pretty models, amazing fash-

ions, screaming headlines, girly colors and well-developed layouts. However, regardless of the satisfaction of a new, glossy and perfumed magazine lying on your lap on a cold fall afternoon, they are as harmful as they are beauti-ful.

Only three minutes of ex-posure to images published in current women’s magazines greatly increases the risk of developing a distorted self im-age, according to research con-ducted at the University of Mis-souri.

Jennifer Nelson, a former freelance writer for such maga-zines agrees and has released a book called "Unbrushed Na-tion: The Lure and Loathing of

Women’s Magazines."“While the average woman is fi ve-

foot, four-inches tall and wears a size 12, the magazines are fi lled with women who are fi ve eleven and wear a size 2,” Nelson wrote. “They all seem

to hover in the twenty-something age bracket, and their bodies are as mythic as Greek goddesses, whether sporting bikinis for magazines like Fitness and Shape or decked out in couture for the covers of Vogue and Elle.”

My love for food is bigger than my wish to count calories. Therefore, I al-ways skipped those pages, advertising the latest, groundbreaking diets and fi tness moves that supposedly help to lose a lot of weight in just a couple of days.

However, I know many girls strug-gling with their body image just be-cause of some fi ctional, media-pro-moted beauty standards, even though they look absolutely good and healthy.

Besides crazy and literally impos-sible dieting as well as fi tness, another story is about fashions portrayed in the magazines.

Whether it’s Seventeen, Glamour, NYLON or Vogue, the outfi ts they ad-vertise on fashion pages are straight up unaffordable. Yes, you might fi nd

something in your budget, but that new fall coat you really, really like will probably cost as much as your one month’s salary. Who can even afford that?

But, because these “know-every-thing” magazines said we have to have the items they carry in their pages to be cool, we believe them. It’s better to fall a month behind the rent payment than to look old fashioned, right?

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Runners from all over the city and state had primed themselves to com-pete in the 34th Medical Center 10K Classic.

The annual race snaked its way through WKU’s campus on Oct. 19, starting at University Boulevard before

winding through Fountain Square and fi nishing in Smith Stadium. Approxi-mately 2,300 runners participated in the race.

“If they can do it, I can do it,” Doris Thomas, race director, said.

Runners participated in four differ-ent events, each of which catered to different strengths. They were the 5K walk/run, the 10K wheelchair race, the

1.5 fun walk and the 10K children’s classic.

Carol Ann Gilbert, a Warren County Elemen-tary School teacher, worked the registration table for the children’s classic and said the kids were excited to run the same route as the adults because they got to feel big.

“It teaches kids to have fun with physi-

cal activity and future fi tness,” Gilbert said.

There were about 400 children reg-istered for the 10K children’s classic. This was the fi rst year that students were able to run the same route as the adults. They completed the fi rst 9K during school hours and ran the last 1K on Saturday.

Although the rain became a chilling factor in the race, the racers didn’t give up.

First-time racers Venica Pollard and Melinda Houghton both participated in the 5K run.

“This is so much fun and everyone cheers everyone on,” Houghton said. “It’s very exciting.”

Pollard ran her fi rst 5K in less than 25 minutes and has already set goals for next year.

“I want to run under 25 next year, and try to be able to do the 10K,” she said.

Seven wheelchair participants navi-gated the same 10K route as the run-ners and completed the route in record times.

Summer Shade junior Stefanie Tu-dor watched the participants and said there is no way she could do that.

“It’s raining, but they are still going,” she said.

The crowd grew louder as each wheelchair crossed the fi nish line.

This was the fi rst year people were able to use the stadium and cheer from the stands as runners crossed the fi n-ish line.

Thomas emphasized how much they appreciated and utilized WKU volunteers. Around 300 students from sororities and fraternities operated the water stations, registration and food tents, and performed other tasks as needed.

“We could not do it without them,” she said.

Community races through campus for annual 10K

Matt Davis, student disability coordinator, enters Smith Stadium at the end of his 10K race. Davis went on to fi nish the race in sixth place. MICHAEL NOBLE JR./HERALD

BY ANNA [email protected]

The WKU food pantry has taken to the Internet to help those who are hun-gry in the campus community.

Sarah Arnold, coordinator of the food pantry, said the “Food Fight” is an orga-nized way for different groups around campus to create teams and gather do-nations for local pantries.

Students join teams online, and give donations. At the end of the event, all food that is donated on the website is given to the pantry. Students and staff can create their teams within depart-ments or join a pre-existing team of their choice.

Crystal Hardeman, coordinator of student activities for Leadership and Volunteerism, said the idea came up because they wanted to participate in Make A Difference Day, and since it fell on Homecoming weekend, it was an easy way to get the entire university involved.

“We wanted it to be easy for people to help donate to a great cause, but still be able to do it from a distance,” she said.

The majority of the teams are soror-ities, fraternities or different depart-ments. Anyone can donate online at www.yougivegoods.com/contest. The competition will last until to-morrow.

Arnold hopes the effort will give the food pantry more visibility and in-crease donations.

“This will greatly benefi t the food pantry by helping publicize the pantry as well as bring in a lot of donations,” said Arnold. “The last time I looked at the website we had already been do-nated over 300 pounds of food. Which I'm not sure what that will look like, but it seems like a lot of food.”

By doing this over the Internet, stu-dents are able to easily help their cam-pus community.

“The click of a button on this website could literally be helping someone in their class, in their dorm, or someone working in the building,” she said. “That one small donation, whether it be a box of ramen, or a few cans of soup, can go a long way and I think it’s important for students to see that.”

Arnold said there are many other ways for students to get involved in

the fi ght against hunger. Anyone can post fl yers around campus or share the page on Facebook and Twitter. To take a bigger step, students can volun-teer at different events throughout the year.

“We’ve had a few classes use the pantry for projects and students have enjoyed being able to focus their thoughts to something real and on campus,” Arnold said.

She hopes this event will raise enough donations to support the food pantry through the winter months.

“In the future, I would like to see moreorganizations around campus get in-volved and maybe add more pantriesto donate to,” Arnold said.

Hardeman said she hopes this com-petition will give people a reason todonate and get involved right here oncampus.

“We should all be ready to fi ghthunger,” she said. “So many peopleright here in Bowling Green are facedwith the struggle of not having food.This is our push to help everyone inthe community.”

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The WKU men’s and women’s cross country teams wrapped up the regu-lar season on Saturday at the Evans-ville Invitational in Evansville, Ind., with one of their top performances of the season.

The Lady Toppers captured top honors as a team, and ju-nior David Mokone claimed fi rst place individually for the men's team.

All fi ve Lady Toppers ran their way to career-best 5K fi nishes. Sophomore Lindsey Hinken (second), sophomore Katie Lever (third), sopho-more Taylor Carlin (fi fth), junior Jodi Miller (sixth) and sophomore Baylee Shofner (seventh) all fi nished in the top-10, and together they collected 23 team points en route to their fi rst

team win of the season.Saturday marked the second con-

secutive meet sophomores Hinken, Le-ver, Carlin and Shofner posted career-best fi nishes.

Coach Erik Jenkins praised the effort of his Lady Topper runners.

“We had all our women fi n-ish in the top-10, and that’s something we’re excited about,” Jenkins said.

Hinken’s second-place fi n-ish was the second of her career and her time of 17:38.56 topped her previous record by nearly 17 seconds. The meet was the second time this season and fi fth time in her career that Hinken fi nished fi rst among

Lady Toppers.Mokone captured his fi rst-career in-

dividual title, leading WKU to a second-place team fi nish, its best of the season. He crossed the fi nish line nearly 20 sec-

onds faster than his closest competitor in the 8K race.

Mokone was WKU’s top runner in each of the team’s four regular season meets, and recorded his ninth career top-10 fi nish in a cross country race on Saturday

Freshman Peter Agaba posted a fi fth-place fi nish in his fi rst career cross country race, coming in at 26:00.06. Sophomore Aaron Stevens also record-ed a career-best 8K fi nish, and clocked in at 26:07.03 for eighth place. Fresh-men Kamohelo Mangoejane (27th) and Josh Amos (46th) rounded out the Topper runners.

Jenkins said he was encouraged by both teams’ performances.

“For the women to come in fi rst and the men to fi nish second is a big posi-

tive for us,” Jenkins said.Jenkins said the meet was what

the teams needed to get ready for the Sun Belt Conference Championships, WKU’s next meet. The Sun Belt cross country teams will meet to compete for the conference title on Nov. 2 in Troy, Ala.

“This was a great meet to prepare us for the Conference Champion-ships,” said Jenkins. “They are in as good a shape as they’re going to get.”

Jenkins hopes the momentum from this win will translate into the team's preparation for the conference cham-pionships.

“We’re going to bring this with us when we head down to Troy, Alabama,” Jenkins said.

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Mokone leads WKU runners at Evansville meet

Snipes, returning this season after an ACL tear sidelined him last year, knocked down a few jumpers and elec-trifi ed the crowd with a reverse dunk from the baseline at one point.

The new guys — redshirt junior guard Trency Jackson and junior for-ward Aaron Adeoye — showed Topper fans what they bring to the table.

Jackson scored 19 points, knocking down fi ve three-pointers in the pro-cess, while Adeoye fl ashed multiple post moves.

Both new guys said they are adjust-ing well in their fi rst semester on the Hill.

Jackson said fans should get used to the fast pace — coach Ray Harper has the team playing a full-court press on defense in practice.

“This year is going to be fun,” he said. “Coach Harper got us pressing. We’re playing a fast-paced game be-cause we have more athletic dudes and it’s going to be fun.”

Jackson, a transfer from Texas Tech, has to sit out until the fi rst semester is over, per NCAA rules.

He proved to be an electrifying ath-lete in the dunk contest. He didn’t win the competition because he was un-able to fi nish his dunk in the last round — he tried to do a 360 where he took

the ball between the legs after throwing an alley-oop pass to himself — but his efforts received cheers from the crowd.

Adeoye was crowned champion af-ter completing a two-handed reverse jam in the fi nal round. He said he stuck with his game plan throughout the competition.

“(Trency) had some nice dunks,” he said. “I knew I was going to go out there with my little routine and it worked, I guess, because he missed his dunks.”

After the contest was over, Jackson treated fans to an extra dunk.

Sophomore guard Percy Blade took a basketball and went into the second level of the crowd. Jackson waited at the three-point line as Blade tossed the ball from the crowd.

The ball bounced once off the fl oor and Jackson grabbed it with his left hand, brought the ball back behind his head and fi nished the dunk with force.

Jackson said he wasn’t disappointed in losing the dunk contest. He said it just felt good to be out there in front of a crowd and that he can’t wait to be eligible to take part in regular-season action.

“It’s the rules, but I’m just glad to be out there in front of a crowd,” Jackson said.

The Toppers will take the fl oor for the fi rst time as a team on Nov. 2 when Campbellsville University rolls into Bowling Green for an afternoon exhibi-tion game.

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The Lady Topper soccer team dropped its fi rst game since Sept. 13 over the weekend as WKU went 1-1 in a pair of road games.

WKU (8-4-4, 6-1-0 Sun Belt Confer-ence) fell at Arkansas State 3-0 Friday before fi nding its footing in a 1-0 win over Arkansas-Little Rock on Sunday.

Coach Jason Neidell said with two regular-season games left, the Lady Toppers have a lot to improve upon.

“We need to work on our collective team defending, possession through the midfi eld and being more danger-ous on the attack,” Neidell said.“That’s going to be our focus in practice mov-ing forward to this weekend.”

Friday’s loss to ASU (9-6-2, 4-3-0)

broke the Lady Toppers’ six-game win-ning streak. The team had gone 6-0-2 in eight games since it was last defeated.

The Lady Red Wolves only fi red four shots, but three of them found the back of WKU’s goal. The result was WKU's fi rst SBC loss.

“We got out-worked and out-com-peted,” Neidell said. “With that being said, (Arkansas State) was very oppor-tunistic — they scored three goals on four shots.”

ASU scored eight minutes into the fi rst half when the Lady Toppers mis-played a Red Wolves corner kick and accidentally knocked the ball into the goal.

Minutes earlier, senior goalkeeper Nora Abolins had slipped in the mud-dy conditions while blocking a corner kick. In an attempt to defend WKU's

goal in a safer manner, Abolins tried to punch the ball out of the box, but a miscue popped the ball into the net.

With that goal, Abolins’ goalless streak was snapped at 582:30 — the second longest record in program his-tory. WKU had shutout its previous fi ve opponents before Friday’s 3-0 loss, and had not allowed a goal since Sept. 22.

ASU forward Loren Mitchell deliv-ered two fi nal blows late in the second half, netting both goals in a three-min-ute span to shatter WKU's chance for a comeback. The Lady Toppers walked away from the game with their fi rst Sun Belt loss since Sept. 30, 2012.

Sunday’s matchup yielded a more fa-vorable result for the team.

Freshman forward Iris Dunn netted her third game-winning goal of the sea-son in the 79th minute at UALR (4-12-0,

1-6-0) to push the Lady Toppers past a Lady Trojan squad.

With four saves in the match, Abolins was a powerful force between the goal posts. The senior goalkeeper and the back line recorded their eighth shutout of the season.

The Lady Toppers have two regular season games left, which includes their home fi nale Friday against Georgia State.

Neidell said he hopes to see his team improve before the Sun Belt Confer-ence Tournament.

“We need to play better," Neidell said. "We haven’t been playing well the past three or so weeks. To our credit, we are still scraping out wins, but we just need to play better. We have several things we need to work on to get a better product out on the fi eld.”

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“She’s always been able to shoot it,” Heard said. “But her bread and but-ter is in the post…it’s good she can have the opportunity to step out and make the three, but we also want to make sure that where she was able to get 16-and-11 last year was in the post.

“Ruta has been coming along each

and every day…We’re excited about that. It gives Chastity an opportunity to kind of play back at her true position at the four.”

Govan got going on the offensive side of the fl oor early on, but her defensive prowess highlighted her play, picking up several defl ections with her active hands. The 5-foot-10-inch San Anto-nio native, who averaged 20.3 points per contest last season, was also a vocal leader for the Lady Toppers during the scrimmage.

Heard, who was named Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year last sea-son, said she was excited to have the opportunity to show off her new play-ers and full roster to the Lady Topper fans.

“It’s exciting for the group,” Heard said. “What we’re trying to do is get the opportunity for people to get a chance to see our new players, and now we have a full roster. I’m just ex-cited.”

The women’s basketball team will

face Kentucky Wesleyan in an exhi-bition matchup on Oct. 29 in DiddleArena.

Heard said the Lady Toppers need tofocus on avoiding miscues and improv-ing as a whole before their fi rst test ofthe season.

“We have to take care of the ball a littlebit more,”Heard said. “…But it’s beenfun. We’ve been getting better, and I’mlooking forward to continuing to getbetter for our exhibition game that iscoming up.”

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back conference victories, the last one coming on Oct. 12 in a 35-28 win at Georgia State. As the Trojans sit in third place in the conference, this game is a must-win for seventh-place WKU.

For either team to have any shot at a win Saturday, they’ll have to fi x their turnover issues.

Neither team has had suc-cess protecting the football this season. WKU still remains at the

bottom of the NCAA with 22 turn-overs and Troy ranks No. 90 in the country, having turned the ball over 14 times.

The inconsistency in the team and the inability to protect the ball is what Petrino said has been the difference for his team in WKU’s three losses.

“Maybe some of it is we’re so young and new in the schemes and what we’re doing, but we aren’t playing as well as we should for four quarters,” Petrino said. “We’ve had some games where we have executed and found ways to win, we just have to work hard

and get better at it.”While it’s hard to move past a

loss, it’s required of a team. Fresh-man linebacker Kalvin Robinson said he believes it is important for the team to not only look at what they have to fi x, but what worked well in their wins.

“I feel like every game that you play, you always learn something about yourself and also learn something about your team,” Robinson said. “So we just look back at our old games and fi gure out what we can do to make us better and we’re just going to be a better team overall.”

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stretch of the season.“In pursuit of a conference championship,

they’re all big right now,” Hudson said. “We’re at the halfway point. It’s going to continue to be about us getting better at things. If we do that, I think we’ll be fi ne.”

The Lady Toppers came out with the sweep against UALR, but it wasn’t easy. WKU won the three sets by scores of 28-26, 25-20 and 25-21.

Junior middle hitter Heather Boyan said a tough win like that was good for the team.

“That was defi nitely a really good match for us to show how we’ve grown as a team,” Boyan said. “We started out at the beginning of the season where we’d be down a few points and it’d be hard for us to come back.

“I think we’ve come a long way. We have that mentality where we’re not going to give up no mat-ter how far down we are.”

The team held one of the nation’s top scorers, UALR junior Edina Begic, to 12 kills in the match. Entering the match, Begic was averaging more than fi ve kills a set and earlier this year, recorded 36 kills in one match.

“She was a little banged up,” Hudson said about Begic. “She rolled her ankle about a week ago or so. She’s still awfully good. She certainly wasn’t her nor-mal self.”

WKU won at Arkansas State by a comfortable margin, with Boyan leading the way with 11 kills and fi ve blocks, including four straight kills to end the match in the third set.

Boyan led the Lady Toppers over the weekend, recording 24 kills in the two matches. For her ef-forts, she was named the Sun Belt Conference Of-fensive Player of the Week for the fi rst time in her career.

Senior setter Melanie Stutsman had another strong weekend for the team as she tallied 82 assists in the six total sets, good enough for an average of more than 13 assists per set. She was also honored by the Sun Belt as the Setter of the Week for her ef-forts.

WKU will hit the road again this weekend as the team travels to Monroe, La., for a match against Louisiana-Monroe (5-20, 1-8 SBC) on Friday. The Lady Toppers defeated the Warhawks earlier this season 3-1.

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Senior forward O'Karo Akamune dunks during Hilltopper Hysteria on Saturday. IAN MAULE/HERALD

BY AUSTIN [email protected]

The Lady Toppers bounced back from last week’s loss to Louisiana-Lafayette with a pair of sweeps and Arkansas-Little Rock and Arkansas State this weekend.

UALR (15-6, 7-2 Sun Belt Con-ference) was previously unbeaten in the Sun Belt Conference and sat atop the league standings before the 3-0 loss to WKU Friday night at home.

The next day WKU traveled to Jonesboro, Ark., to play Arkansas State (10-13, 6-3 SBC) which result-ed in another sweep for the Lady Toppers. WKU (18-5, 8-1 SBC) has now swept 12 opponents this year and is alone at the top of the Sun Belt standings.

Coach Travis Hudson said the two wins should help the Lady Toppers as they enter the fi nal

Volleyball team back on track after two sweeps

BY ELLIOTT [email protected]

It’s been a week since WKU’s 37-20 home loss to Louisiana-Lafayette last Tuesday and one week since the Top-pers’ chances of a Sun Belt Confer-ence title got a lot harder. Moving on to the next opponent after a loss is an obstacle that comes with the nature of sport, but that doesn’t mean it comes across easily.

Coach Bobby Petrino said no loss is easy to swallow.

“I’ve always envied the basketball coaches and the baseball coaches where they lose a hard game and they can go right back to work the next day and play again,” Petrino said. “When you lose a football game, it’s hard. We try to get it over within 24 hours and put it to bed. It’s still very, very diffi cult.

“It was hard for us last Wednesday. I think our players came in last Thurs-day and Friday and worked very hard. I do think we have a good attitude and that will help us.”

It will have been 11 days since WKU (4-3, 1-2 Sun Belt) last played a football game when the team takes the fi eld for Homecoming Saturday against Troy.

But the Trojans (4-3, 2-1 Sun Belt Con-ference) have had some time to rest as well. In WKU’s case, players like senior fullback Nick Baisch are glad to be back to a normal schedule.

“We haven’t played on Saturday

in like three weeks,” Baisch said. “It’s good to get back to a normal week and we have to get right back on and have to get playing again.”

Troy enters the game after back-to-

Toppers ready to move on from ULL loss

BY KYLE [email protected]

Saturday night at Diddle Arena, WKU fans got the chance to get their fi rst look at the new Lady Top-per basketball team.

The Lady Toppers took the court along with the men’s basketball team for Hilltopper Hysteria, WKU’s annual celebration to kick off the basketball season.

The Lady Toppers — who fi nished last season with a record of 22-11, a 13-win improvement from the sea-son before — were the fi rst to hit the fl oor following the introduc-tions for an intra-squad scrimmage in front of an estimated 4,200 fans.

Freshman center Ruta Savick-aite was aggressive early and gave the White team a sizable advan-tage through the fi rst fi ve minutes

of play. The 6-foot-4-inch Lithu-ania native recorded the fi rst seven points for the White team and fi n-ished with a total of eight.

Familiar faces also impressed for the Lady Toppers in their 20-min-ute scrimmage in the form of junior forward Chastity Gooch and junior guard Alexis Govan.

Gooch, who was third among sophomores last season in re-bounding with over 11 boards per game, drained both of her attempts from beyond the arc. The 6-foot junior — who recorded 33 double-doubles last season — normally isn’t a threat from deep, but coach Michelle Clark-Heard said Gooch has always been a capable shooter and that the presence of newcomer Savickaite will give her some free-dom offensively.

Heard impressed with start to seasonBY TYLER LASHBROOK

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The men’s basketball team showcased a mix of returning talent and unfamiliar faces at Saturday’s Hilltopper Hysteria.

Seven new Toppers were on the fl oor for Saturday night’s event — freshman guard Payton Hulsey, freshman guard Brandon Price, redshirt junior Trency Jackson, ju-nior forward Aaron Adeoye, fresh-man forward Ben Lawson, sopho-more center Daouda Soumaoro and redshirt freshman guard Chris Harrison-Docks.

Adeoye said it was exciting to perform in front of WKU fans for the fi rst time.

“(Coach Harper) said, ‘Just go out there and play around,’” Ad-eoye said. “So that’s what we did,

you know — we just had fun with it.”

The familiar faces reminded Topper fans of WKU’s last two Sun Belt Conference Tournament title runs with explosive plays.

Junior guard Kevin Kaspar, se-nior guard Caden Dickerson and senior guard Brandon Harris all knocked down three-pointers dur-ing the inter-squad scrimmage.

Junior guard T.J. Price knocked down a handful of deep three-pointers and fi nished a couple drives to the basket as well.

The Toppers also showed off their ability to dunk the ball as well.

Junior forward George Fant threw down a thunderous back door alley-oop with one hand less than a minute into the game and redshirt sophomore forward Nigel

Toppers show high-fl ying ability

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Junior quarterback Nelson Fishback tries to avoid being tackled during WKU's loss to Louisiana-Lafayette at WKU on Oct. 15. DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/HERALD

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