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SPORTS WKU HOSTS FIRST KENNY PERRY INVITATIONAL PAGE 8FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012 • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY • WKUHERALD.COM • VOLUME 88 NO. 13
CHH POLITICS US CHINA RELATIONS PAGE 5NEWS BATTLE OF THE BANDS ROCK WKU TONIGHT PAGE 2 FUN PAGE CROSSWORD, SUDOKU AND TWEETS FROM THE HILL PAGE 4
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After three years of performing as drag king Sammie Luvv, Nashville senior Simone Lampkin talks about the recent closing of Ellis Place, where she and the drag community performed. “I miss it right now,” Lampkin said. “Ellis Place is where Sammie was born. If it wasn’t for Ellis Place I wouldn’t have been able to grow.” MEGAN TAN/HERALD
Once a month, people in the com-munity gathered at Ellis Place for Cabaret La Cage, formerly known as “Bowling Green’s home for premier female and male impersonation.” However, last June, the building was purchased by Vino’s Restaurant, which left local drag queens and kings without a stage. “I feel like a part of me has died,” Simone Lampkin said. Lampkin is a Nashville senior ma-joring in sociology who enjoyed performing in the drag shows as her male alter ego, Sammie. Lampkin said she was blindsided when she heard the news. She didn't know it would be her last show. The theme was Bowling Green Pride, and the group performed “Freedom” by George Michael. Lampkin learned the brand-new number to perform with the drag
queens. “Everyone loved it,” she said. “It was a joint effort, and it was fun.” She was most proud that everyone joined in and put on a good show. “We were together, working to-gether,” she said. “Queens never do songs together.” Not only did the performers rally together, but the crowd was also in tune. Lampkin said it was the atmo-sphere that made the performance so great. However, she said the previous owner didn’t announce to the public that the Cabaret La Cage would have to fi nd a new home. “We’d have found a new place sooner,” she said. In a way, she feels that not having a place to perform is good because she can focus on her studies. But she said she’s bummed out that Sammie doesn’t have a home anymore. To make matters worse, Lampkin
was in a car accident coming back from an audition for a drag show in Smyrna, Tenn. She totaled her car and lost her drag show bag, which held fl ashy clothing and tools need-ed to transform into Sammie. She hit a puddle of water and hy-droplaned across four lanes of traf-fi c. “It took about 10 minutes before I realized I wasn’t dead,” she said. Lampkin said her drag bag was run over by an 18-wheeler. “I miss it,” she said. “But drag will always be there.” The closest place to go see a show is in Nashville at Play or in Louisville at Connections. However, Lampkin still wants to perform in Bowling Green. “I don’t feel that everybody is mak-ing enough effort to look,” she said. “The people I meet, I try to network and talk about it to get it brought up
MACIENA JUSTICE [email protected]
Drag's new home
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is coming to WKU on Monday to address students. Paul will speak in Grise Hall Auditorium at 11:30 a.m.
Paul plans to talk to students about issues in the upcoming election year, according to an email from the political science department.
Paul last spoke at WKU in September, ad-dressing high school students interested in the military at the Carroll Knicely Conference Center.
His last speaking engagement on the main campus was in November of last year, when he talked about the debt situation in Europe.
The political science and economics de-partments are sponsoring the visit.
-Michael McKay
Sen. Paul to speak at WKU Monday
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When the statue in front of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house was painted pink as an act of vandalism, the brothers embraced it in support of breast cancer awareness. "Honestly it was kind of funny," said SAE president, Cody Murphy of Morgantown. "Whoever did it, we thank them because it lead to a philan-thropic cause." SETH FISCHER/HERALD
Purr-suit of a cure
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to everyone’s attention.” She hopes that someone will con-tact her about a new place for the Cabaret La Cage to perform again. Lampkin said Sammie grew up at El-lis Place. Sarah McGuffey of Scottsville, went to many of the drag shows there. She said it got to the point that many people came to the show just to see Sammie. “A lot of people come to see Simone to see what she’ll do next,” McGuffey said. “She went from not thinking she could, to owning the show.” For McGuffey, drag shows were a night out with the girls. “It didn’t matter, gay or straight,” she said. “That was our time out.” McGuffey said watching Simone
transfer to Sammie was incredible. “You would think she’s Sammie ev-ery day, she is so transformed,” Mc-Guffey said. Lampkin hopes Bowling Green will fi nd another place for the drag com-munity to go where they have no fear of judgment or violence because of who they are — that’s what Ellis Place provided, she said. Since the building was bought, Cabaret La Cage hasn’t secured a new venue. Vino’s owner Blake Leucht said the only reason the drag shows are no longer being held at that location is because Vino’s is a seven-day-a-week, full-service restaurant. “It used to be a place you can rent out,” he said. “We can’t afford to close it once a month. It would be like clos-ing Applebee’s.” Until there is a new place, Sammie remains homeless.
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Revolution 91.7’s Battle of the Bands plans on rocking the WKU Col-onnade for a charitable cause Friday night.
The competition, in its third year, is part of the radio station’s RevFest 2012 and will feature 10 bands, both locally known and out of state.
It will start at 5 p.m., taking place in the Col-onnade area in front of the Ivan Wilson Center for Fine Arts.
The winner receives a cash prize, the honor of being named Revolu-tion’s Artist of the Week, and will be invited to be the opening act of the headlining band at May-hem 2013.
A panel of judges will determine the winner. Burlington junior Sa-vannah Burke, Revolu-tion program director, encourages students to come check out the event.
“It’s a free event, and for a college student looking
for something to do on a Friday night – especially those under 21 – it’s a really good time,” Burke said.
She said the bands Rev-olution is showcasing will “cater” to students.
“A lot of them are what I’d call ‘college progres-sive,'” she said. "Some are alternative country, some indie.”
She said all of the pro-ceeds collected during the Battle of the Bands, including entry fees from the bands, benefi t New Beginnings Therapeutic Riding of Bowling Green.
New Beginnings uses horse-riding to bring “new beginnings to in-dividuals with behav-ioral, emotional, mental and physical disabilities through the power of the horse,” according to the organization’s website.
Currently, the group is the second largest therapeutic riding cen-ter in the state, and has been a part of the Warren County community for 15 years.
Burke has hopes for a great student turn-out at the RevFest event.
“It depends on the weather cooperating, but once they realize it’s a free event, they’ll wander over and check it out,” she said. “It’s really worth it.”
Greenburg junior Nash Gumm, station manager, said this year's showcase is not one to be missed.
“We’re going to have two bands from Nash-ville, a couple from Cincinnati,” Gumm said.“It’ll be nice to see local bands stack up against other bands from a different market.”
Gumm said the diverse bands on this year’s line-up will give more stu-dents an opportunity to hear something they’ll like.
“They’ll also have the opportunity, not only to see different acts, but to see other students per-form,” he said. “The mu-sic scene here is insane compared to other towns our size.”
SHELBY [email protected]
Battle of the Bands rocks back to WKU
Veronica Ihaza and Simone Lampkin share the same bathroom counter as Lampkin applies her drag king facial hair and Ihaza applies her lip balm. MEGAN TAN/HERALD
Due to a Herald error, an Oct. 9 story about a student petition for more ac-cessible theatre buildings incorrectly identifi ed Patrick MacDonald as being from Goshen, Ind. MacDonald is from Goshen, Ky.
The College Heights Herald corrects all confi rmed errors that are brought to reporters’ or editors’ attention. Please call 745-6011 or 745-5044 to re-port a correction, or email us at [email protected].
• Bowling Green fresh-man Dallas Moore re-ported his cell phone stolen from his back-pack on Oct. 10. The value of the stolen item is valued at $250.• Hopkinsville sopho-more ShaNeeka Brew-ton reported her wallet
stolen after leaving it on top of her car in the Chestnut Street lot and drove away. She was unable to fi nd it once she returned on Oct. 10. The value of the items stolen is valued at $30.• An unknown caller reported a mulch fi re
burning near Northeast Hall on Oct. 10. Police extinguished the fi re upon arrival.• HRL coordinator Sar-ah Wiley reported the theft of a plastic folding sign on Oct. 9. The value of the item stolen is val-ued at $200.
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During last Tuesday’s Student Government Association meeting, the organization unanimously ap-proved funding for its bi-annual Campus Clean-up event.
The clean-up bill approved fund-ing for promotional T-shirts for vol-unteers at the event on Oct. 23.
Campus Clean-up was started with past WKU President Henry Cherry to help maintain campus beauty.
Mallory Chaney, committee chair-man, said providing free tees to vol-unteers will give students more of a reason to participate.
“Nothing’s better than getting a free T-shirt,” Chaney said. “It gives student-incentive to come out and volunteer.”
Chaney said the shirts will be dark gray with an SGA logo and some-thing along the lines of "Tops mak-ing a difference" to help promote Make a Difference Day.
USA Weekend’s Make a Difference Day was created in 1992 to unite Americans in a “common mission to improve the lives of others,” ac-cording to the group’s website.
“I’m excited for Campus Clean-up because we get to make campus more beautiful than it already is,” Chaney said. “I’m also glad that we had the funds to get T-shirts again.”
Chaney said she hopes to have a good turnout this year.
Keyana Boka, SGA executive vice president, said she thinks this tradi-tion is important.
“It’s an important tradition be-cause it shows we care and want campus to be beautiful,” Boka said. “I think it’s a rewarding experience because you're doing community service and getting a T-shirt. We’re hoping to expand the event to in-clude other community service ac-tivities.”
Boka took part in the event last year. She said SGA is in the process of implementing other sustainable efforts on campus that incorporate community service.
SGA President Cory Dodds is also excited about the campus clean-up bill passing.
“I think it’s a good thing because it promotes volunteering and gives students the opportunity to get ser-vice hours,” Dodds said.
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SGA bill funds Campus Clean-up
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Commercials continue to perpetuate stereotypes, stale ideas
We can all agree that television has a large impact on the lives of those who watch it. We may watch vulgar TV shows that teach us bet-ter insults (me), we may watch coverage of a trial and make up our minds based on what Nancy Grace tells us (me) and we may watch shows like CSI and assume that cases are always closed beautifully (was me). But there are those times when I don’t buy so easily in to television. In particular, I don’t buy into the sexist commer-cials that still plague our televisions every day. Don’t believe me? Just let me give you a few ex-amples.
I fi rst started to no-tice the “let’s stay in the 1950s” trend of commercials when I watched commercials for laundry detergents. In so many of these c o m m e r -cials it was a woman who was scurry-ing to fold the clothes or to put in the detergent. I r e m e m b e r t h i n k i n g , “God, don’t they know that men can do that too? How about equal representation here?” But I sort of let it slide because it just wasn’t on my radar. Then I started to watch dishwashing commer-cials, which featured
a vast array of typical women debating the cleanliness and “spar-kliness” of their dishes. That started to irk me a bit more. It wasn’t until the
commercials for “home-cooked meals” that I really started to no-tice the trend. These com-mercials would always feature a woman with a tireless smile on her face as she served her husband and 2.5 kids a won-
derful home-cooked meal. I would watch en-ergy drink commercials where a woman would say “I’m too tired…but I know that I want dinner cooked by the time my
husband gets home.” This wasn’t just one or two commercials. This was most of them. Instead of moving into the future, where many women choose to be equal opportunity em-ployers and men can just as easily perform the tasks of laundry and simple cooking. Some-how, the creators of these commercials still believed we were in the 1950s. Diet commercials do nothing to help equal opportunists either. Instead of encourag-ing both sexes to lose weight equally, most commercials that fea-ture low calorie snacks or yogurt have a wom-an character or narra-tor. Commercials that do encourage men to lose weight are always
manly, with images of men fl ipping burgers and watching football and still performing manly duties while di-eting. Dieting in itself is apparently too girly, and apparently there’s noth-ing worse in our society than being a girl. To conclude, I have seen a few commercials that attempt to equally exploit both parties regarding marital du-ties and diets. But until I stop seeing Wendy’s commercials that en-courage women to pur-chase blueberry salads and men to sit on the couch and eat fatten-ing Baconators to their heart’s content or see-ing only women sharing their domestic woes to the camera, it just won’t be enough.
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KRIZColumnist
The Cultural Enhancement Se-ries is returning for its 16th season on Monday starting with a group of “cool cats.”
The Birdland Big Band, a jazz group directed by Tommy Igoe, will be performing at 7:30 p.m. in Van Meter Auditorium.
David Lee, dean of Potter Col-lege, said the Cultural Enhance-ment Committee, which he chairs, chose this band because the committee frequently gets re-quests for jazz music.
“These folks play a sophisticat-ed form of music at a very high level, and I think it’s a great op-portunity for students — for folks in the community — to hear a re-ally excellent kind of performance that you can’t hear in this com-munity every day,” Lee said.
Musicians who take part in the series are asked to do a Master’s Class with music majors, where those students can get hands-on training. Tommy Igoe will be do-ing this on Monday.
Also this month, writer Jon Meacham will be speaking in Van Meter at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 29.
Lee said Meacham will be a timely guest because he wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography about Andrew Jackson and will be speaking just a week before Elec-tion Day.
“He’s very much plugged into
things that are happening politi-cally and culturally in the United States right now, and he has some really challenging and interesting things to say about what’s going on,” Lee said.
Mina Doerner, formerly assistant to the dean of Potter College, orga-nized the series since its beginning in 1997, but recently left WKU.
Doerner said in an email the series has always tried to bring a mix of well-known and rising art-ists.
She said some of her favorite guests in the series were poet Billy Collins and E.O. Wilson, the “fa-ther of Sociobiology.”
“You’d have to pay out the nose to see some of these folks,” Do-erner said.
Kelly Scott, communications coordinator, said the series has always offered a variety of events.
“We’re bringing this to our cam-pus and to the community and it’s free, so you don’t get that a lot,” Scott said.
Scott also said this could be an-other way for students to discover what they are interested in.
“If you’re not quite sure what you want to do yet, this might be another avenue,” Scott said.
Other guests in the series will come to WKU during the spring semester in March and April: dance company Ailey II, writer Garrison Keillor and men’s chorus Chanticleer.
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Student face-off: Chinese-American relations
CHH POLITICS
With all the hysteria going on about China’s boom, you’d think we bet-ter start learning Mandarin. It seems everything we own is stamped with “Made in China,” and the news is screaming about China owning all our debt. There’s even talk of an inevitable war with China. This is all folly and here’s why:
First, the U.S. is the world’s production leader, making a whopping 21 per-cent of global manufactur-ing products. China is in a far second at 15 percent. Also, China only holds 8 percent of publicly owned U.S. debt. Finally, the op-portunity cost of going to war with China is astound-ing, considering how busy we are mak-ing money off each other via trade.
China’s recent growth is mainly due to its emergence into modernity: freeing up their markets, expanding education
and trading more with others. In other words, things we’ve always done.
Not all is well with China, however. The artifi cial devaluation of their cur-rency is, for lack of better words, cheat-ing in the global market. With a deval-ued currency, their goods are cheaper. This hurts others ability to compete as well as their own citizens’ standard of living.
In reaction to this, President Barack Obama stated his dis-approval of their policy but proceeded to do no more. We need to hold China to higher standards, both for our sake and for its. We have much to gain from a president who will not let China cheat. Our ex-ported goods from China will generate more profi t; our im-ported goods will be cheaper.
As China continues to mod-ernize, business with them will become more of a necessity for us both. Stand-ing up to them now is part of laying the framework for a mutually benefi cial partnership in the long run.
KEATON [email protected]
China. Very few countries emit such intense controversy in today’s times. When one mentions China, several negative thoughts come to mind. A restrictive and oppressive govern-ment, countless incidents of censor-ship, and a country facing several economic woes are just some of the many ideas that Ameri-cans get of China. This idea that Americans have of China should be withdrawn as soon as possible. If done carefully, the current relationship be-tween the United States and China could develop into a wonderful relationship ben-efi ting both countries.
The fi rst step is for the Unit-ed States to pay off the debt it owes to China. No relationship can start anew unless the participating parties are on equal terms. Currently, the United States owes 8 percent of its national debt to the People’s Republic of China. China owns this small but respectful portion of the United States national debt because of their pur-chases of U.S. treasury bonds. A plan must be implemented immediately to halt China’s consumption of our debt. Raising the debt ceiling or defaulting
on our loans is not the answer. Instead we must focus on being cautious on federal spending. The second step is to balance the trade defi cit. According to census.gov, as of July 2012, the United States has imported $253.8239 billion in trade goods from China while only exporting $61.3903 billion in trade goods to China. That’s a $174.4334 bil-lion defi cit in trade. In order to allevi-
ate our own economic woes, we must at the very least export as much as we im-port. This can be achieved by either decreasing our im-ports from China, increas-ing our exports to China, or a healthy balance of both.
Once these two crucial steps are completed, China and the United States can begin the road to prosper-ity together. Imagine the
things we could learn from China, such as implementing their educa-tional tactics to help alleviate our struggling public education system. Or the things China can learn from us, such as allowing a more free market and less government restrictions on freedom of speech.
These dreams can become a reality if the U.S. federal government imple-ments these steps into their relations with China.
TREY [email protected]
CRUMBIEPolitical contributor
For decades, the U.S. has struggled with how most effectively to handle relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). During much of China’s civil war (1927–1950), the U.S. backed the Nationalists (the Kuomintang) over the Communists, continuing to recog-nize the former as the legitimate gov-ernment of all of China even after the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan.
The result was no direct relations be-tween the U.S. and the PRC for 30 years, creating fertile ground for mispercep-tions during the height of the Cold War. After decades of ignoring political reality, the U.S., under Richard Nixon, fi nally reached out to China in 1971, with the establishment of diplomatic relations fi nally in 1979 under Jimmy Carter.
China’s growing economic and politi-cal clout now presents additional chal-lenges. Whereas the U.S. originally fo-
cused on balancing engagement with China and continu-ing to provide Tai-wan military sup-port, U.S.-China relations are now considerably more complex. China remains North Korea’s economic lifeline, opposing increased sanctions on a regime that continues a nuclear program and threatens America’s long-time allies, South Korea and Japan. Yet despite common perceptions in the U.S., Chinese leadership has remark-ably little control over their neighbor, a rogue regime that even failed to warn its closest ally regarding nuclear tests near their border. China provides fi -nancial and military assistance to sev-eral other authoritarian regimes, often in exchange for access to natural re-
sources (e.g. Sudan), while threatening to use its UN Security Council veto to prevent peacekeeping missions in oth-er hotspots.
More recently, China’s increased bra-vado in claims to disputed territories in the South China Sea (the Spratly Is-lands) and with Japan regarding the Di-aoyu/Senkaku Islands suggests a rising power more willing to advance its own interests and potentially challenge that of their neighbors.
Still, viewing U.S.-China relations as adversarial in nature ignores in-creased mutually benefi cial business and cultural exchanges as well as the more benevolent actions taken as part of the PRC’s “charm offensive”. Where once reluctant to insert itself into the domestic affairs of other countries, in-creasingly China has provided seem-ingly no-strings-attached aid, includ-ing to Haiti in 2010.
This was despite Haiti never having diplomatic relations with China. Simi-larly, viewing China’s economic growth
as a zero-sum game both ignores emerging American opportunities in China and presupposes that China can continue such growth without ad-ditional economic, if not political, re-forms.
Put bluntly, China needs a stable economic environment in order for a smooth leadership transition and to delay deeper political reforms, which ultimately requires greater engage-ment with the U.S. and other powers, not an inevitable escalation of ten-sions. China certainly presents unique challenges for U.S. interests, especially in a post-Cold War era characterized by American hegemony.
However, through increases in both diplomatic and non-governmental in-teractions, the U.S. can shape relations with China to promote mutual inter-ests.
TIMOTHY RICH [email protected]
RICHPolitical
contributor
Expert's Corner: China relations have room for improvement
Recently, I helped my best friend purge her clos-et.
We spent a Friday night going through her ward-robe, piece by piece — each garment, a special memory, hung nicely on a hanger.
We made piles: items to keep, items to donate. And after hours of laughing at poor decisions, we hung what was remaining neatly back into what is now her perfectly organized closet.
It was a prime example of consumerism. We buy clothing only to discard it and then buy something else.
And while that’s not a bad thing, I found myself with a closet full of clothes that had no sentimental value or true meaning.
They were just clothes. Hanging neatly in a row, only to be worn a handful of times and then trashed.
This didn’t really affect me until someone asked me what my most trea-sured article of clothing was.
Surprisingly, I could not think of a piece of clothing that I treasured.
Sure, I’ve got blouses that I love and dresses that I think are perfect but my affection toward them and obses-sion with them always tends to wane.
They, like most of my wardrobe, end up like Lauren’s clothes did — in the donation pile.
So I thought about it and thought about it. (I had to think out-side my closet, literally.) And then it hit me.
My favorite piece of clothing isn’t trendy. It’s not fashion-forward and it’s not something any cus-tomer would ever be able to purchase at the their fa-vorite store.
But, it’s mine. And to me, it’s my most treasured piece of my wardrobe.
It’s a baggy, black-and-red fl annel button up. It belongs to the man I ad-mire most — my dad. And to be honest, I took it from him just so he wouldn’t wear it out anymore.
And especially so he wouldn't wear it with his matching jacket.
It’s pilling on the surface, the seams are bowing, the
torso is torqued, and the plaid design doesn’t really match up anymore.
It smells like a combination of a man who works too hard, a car-fi lled garage and cigar smoke. But I love it.
I wear it around my house. I wear it to sleep. And, although I’m em-barrassed to ad-mit it, I have even worn it in public
before. (Just don’t let my dad know, because I’m sure he’ll decide he wants it back.)
I don’t want to part with it. Maybe the wrinkled, old and discolored fl annel shirt isn’t stylish, but that fl annel shirt embodies ev-erything that my dad is.
So, Chic Chick readers, this week I challenge you to dig through your ward-robe and fi nd what means the most to you.
Maybe it’s in your closet. Maybe it’s in your parents’ attic buried deep into a storage container.
Wherever it is, whatever it is, fi nd it and cherish it.
Hopefully, it will fi ll a void in your wardrobe like my dad’s fl annel did for me.
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Jordan Pitney’s passion in life is fashion.
The Louisville senior has been experimenting with de-sign since high school when he learned how to crochet and draw sketches of his ideas.
For Pitney, it’s more than just clothing — it’s the way clothes make a person feel. “You can see a person’s whole demeanor change from an outfi t,” he said.
Pitney is most interested in high fashion, or couture. He recently returned to campus from attending Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York.
“It was the best experience of my life,” he said.
While in the Big Apple, he not only went sightseeing but also bought materials to make his designs. Pitney went to Mood Designer Fabrics, the store featured on “Project Runway,” where he got denim and leath-er.
He was also able to network at several events and dropped his portfolio off at different showrooms. Paducah junior Marquise Scott said Pitney saw great shows while he was in New York and was able to get "free-bies" from Marc Jacobs. The two have been friends since meeting a few years ago and learned they had fashion, music and travel in common. “He has a mix of styles: ur-ban, chic, with a more relaxed formal look,” Scott said. “He’s very fashionable.” Pitney said he fi nds inspira-tion in other cultures and peo-ple around him for his designs. He recently took an interest in Arab culture. He is learning Arabic from international stu-dents in exchange for helping them with their English. When sewing, Pitney enjoys creating custom-made looks for his clients. He tailors ev-erything from blazers to shorts so that they have more than clothes that fi t but a fashion style as well, he said.
Atlanta senior Derek Malveaux said Pitney has de-signed a few pieces for him, including a sleeveless denim jacket with intricate details and patchwork. Malveaux said Pitney can make things that normally re-quire big equipment. However, he won’t show what he’s making until it’s good enough to be shown,
Malveaux said. “He’s very determined,” he said. “He wants to have top grade work.” To further his expertise, Pit-ney plans to attend graduate school in Italy. He’s interested in Polimoda International In-stitute for fashion design and marketing. Another attraction is Polimoda’s show design pro-gram.
Pitney said there are people who wear many hats in life, dabbling in a little bit of every-thing. “I want to wear the same hat, and accessorize it,” he said.
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WKU will try to add two more wins to its 4-1-1 Sun Belt Conference record this weekend when it takes on South Ala-bama and Troy at the WKU Soccer Com-plex. The two home games will be the Lady Toppers’ fi rst since a 5-0 win over Arkansas-Little Rock on Sept. 23. First up for WKU (9-4-1, 4-1-1 Sun Belt) will be South Ala-bama (7-6-2, 2-2-1) at 6 p.m. on Friday. The Jaguars, com-ing off a 3-0 road loss to Arkansas State, are led by defender Ta-tum Perry (four goals, one assist) and mid-
fi elder Clarissa Her-nandez (three goals, two assists). The Lady Toppers will then meet Troy at 1 p.m. on Sunday. The Trojans, com-ing off a 4-0 home win over UALR, are led by midfi elder/forward Chelsey Wil-liams (seven goals, three assists) and midfielder/forward Cecillia Thorngren (four goals, nine as-sists). WKU’s last win, a 6-1 drubbing over Louisiana-Monroe, marked its seventh straight season reach-ing nine wins.
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SPORTS BRIEF: LADY TOPPERS GET SOUTH AL, TROY THIS WEEKEND
Hysteria isn’t an actual WKU basketball game, contribute to that, he said. “I think on a night where a lot of people look at (Hysteria) as an exhibition, the appeal is going to be a little less than it would be for high school football when those two teams are play-ing a district game that counts, and they’re two of the best teams in the state in their class,” Bran-denburg, now a freelance reporter at WLKY-TV in Louisville, said. This is the second straight year Hysteria and the BGHS-WCHS game fell on the same night. Last year, BGHS-WCHS drew between 4,000 and
5,000 fans, while Hysteria drew about 3,000. WKU’s athletic depart-ment wouldn’t complete-ly rule out moving the event to another night in the future to avoid con-fl icts with high school football, Boyden said. However, she said that idea wasn’t discussed this year. Boyden said she preferred a Friday model because it came on a good night for fami-lies, was a consistent date and allowed volley-ball to be included in the festivities. “We do face Friday night football, but I’d like to think we’re the better show,” Boyden said. “No offense, but we’re com-pletely different. “It’s not like we’re play-ing football, we’re play-ing basketball. And goodness knows people love basketball in this
state. It’s competing, but hopefully we get our fans here, and I think they’ll have a really good time. With all the things we’re bringing back, I’m really excited.” Friday will mark the fi rst Hysteria for Ray Harper and Michelle Clark-Heard as men’s basketball Head Coach and women’s basketball Head Coach, respective-ly. Harper has taken part in Hysteria in the past as an assistant and said the night gives fans a chance to get a closer look at players’ personalities be-yond their jump-shoot-ing or defensive abilities. “You’ll also get the chance to meet these kids and know, other than basketball, the type of kids that we’ve got in this program,” Harper
said. “It’s going to be a fun evening.” But even the chance to see new coaches and players might not be enough for Hysteria to out-draw BGHS-WCHS. WKU faces a different challenge when compet-ing against an impor-tant high school football game than a school like Kentucky, Louisville or Indiana would, Branden-burg said. “At those places, we would be talking about how the university is tak-ing away from the com-munity’s high school football atmosphere,” he said. “But I think Friday night is a story of how the high school football atmosphere is going to take away from the uni-versity’s atmosphere at Hilltopper Hysteria.”
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tournament, WKU strug-gled against the nation’s best team, Penn State, when it came to attack-ing at the net. The Nittany Lions used their height to accumu-late 9.5 total team blocks.FIU presents a similar obstacle, leading the Sun Belt in blocks averaging 3.12 per set. Similar to Penn State, FIU’s leading blockers exceed 6’ 2” in height. Outside hitter Paige Wessel, who is 12th in the nation in hitting per-centage with .415, said the offense will have to move the ball around ef-fectively in order to pick apart the FIU defense. “We’ll have to do re-ally well passing so we can turn our offense on,” Wessel said. “Since they are tall, we’ll need our
blockers to be solid and have our defense behind it.” The Lady Toppers will be hoping a large home crowd gives them a boost on Friday.
The WKU-FIU game marks the opening of Hilltopper Hysteria, the school’s annual men’s and women’s basketball tip-off event. Friday night’s game will mean a little more to se-nior defensive specialist Sarah Rogers, who will enter the court in front of her fourth and fi nal
crowd for Hilltopper Hysteria. “It’s one of my favorite games,” Rogers said. “We know the crowd will be there for the basketball teams, but we get the luck of the draw by play-ing before them. “Since we’re doing so well this year, we expect a big turnout.” WKU will turn around in less than 24 hours and meet FAU at 2 p.m. in Diddle. The Owls bring a little momentum against the Lady Toppers after cap-turing their fi rst Sun Belt win of the year on Satur-day against Louisiana-Lafayette. FAU will also be fea-turing a new face on the sideline — fi rst year coach Fernanda Nelson, who previously was an assistant at Florida Gulf Coast University for four years.
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VOLLEYBALL
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FIU presents familiar challenges for WKU in Hysteria matchup
WKU is playing some of its best volleyball in re-cent memory.
Two teams that haven’t played their best are Florida International and Florida Atlantic.
Like every other team the Lady Toppers have faced this year, they say they won’t be taking wins over these teams from the Sunshine State for granted.
Coach Travis Hudson said FAU and FIU are “up
and down” at times. “They both have some skilled kids,” Hudson said. “They both have played well at times, and both have struggled at times.” FIU is the only team of the two that has beat Hudson dur-ing his 17 years at the helm for WKU. However, the Pan-thers haven’t done that
since November of 2009 and haven’t taken a set
against WKU since 2010.
This year’s FIU team has stumbled to a 5-13 record af-ter going 3-9 during its fi rst 12 games, all on the road. But FIU may challenge the Lady Toppers at the net when the teams meet
at 6 p.m. in Diddle Arena. In the season’s opening
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WKU hosting fi rst Kenny Perry InvitationalFor the fi rst time in re-
cent program history, WKU’s men are hosting a tournament in Bowling Green.
The Toppers will host the WKU Kenny Perry In-vitational at The Club at Olde Stone, starting this weekend.
The 54-hole tourna-ment will begin at 9 a.m.
Sunday, with the second round taking place at 9 a.m. Monday and the fi -nal round teeing off at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The event is named for Kenny Perry, a Franklin native who played golf at WKU from 1979-1982 before going profession-al in 1982. Perry, who currently competes on the Cham-pions Tour, tallied 14
PGA Tour victories and helped the U.S. national team to victories over Europe in the 2004 and 2008 Ryder Cups. WKU Head Coach Phil-lip Hatchett and Perry were collegiate team-mates on the Hill. “It’s nice to play close to home,” Hatchett said. “The families can come and watch and be a part of something special.”
Hatchett was named head coach in 2010. He graduated from WKU in 1985 and was on the golf team all four years he was on campus. This week-end’s tourna-ment is the fi rst hosted in Bowl-
ing Green un-der Hatchett’s tenure. He said he be-lieves the home course advan-tage should play out well for his guys. “I’m looking forward to a top-three fi n-ish, hopefully,” Hatchett said. As of Herald
press time Thursday, the qualifying rounds had not been fi nished, thus WKU’s fi nal roster hadn’t been named. However, senior cap-tain Will Beard is exemptfrom qualifying and is guaranteed a spot for the Toppers. In the 2011-2012 sea-son, Beard played in nine events and averaged ascore of 76.88 per round.
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Hysteria battles high school football for fans
Local sports fans have two distinct choices to pick from on Friday. At 6 p.m. in WKU’s Diddle Arena will be Hilltopper Hysteria, the school’s an-nual men and women’s basketball tip-off showcase. It’s a free event that includes a WKU volleyball game, short men and wom-en’s basketball intrasquad scrimmages, a dunk contest and a 3-point shootout. Down the road at Warren Central High School will be this year’s edition of the area’s biggest football rivalry, Warren Central vs. Bowling Green High
School. Kickoff is 7 p.m. The game allows fans to see Ken-tucky’s top-rated team in Class 5A, Bowling Green, play a team ranked second or third in most Class 5A polls, Warren Central, in a district game be-tween two rivals. Lindsay Boyden, assistant AD (mar-keting) at WKU, is confi dent Hysteria can draw a large crowd in spite of the high school game because of the “non-stop” atmosphere the event offers, she said. “No one is ever sitting there like, ‘Oh, what’s the next thing? Come on, get it going,’” Boyden said. “…From the point that we start, meaning introduc-
tions of the women, introductions of the men, it’s nonstop until we close the night with the dunk contest.” Much of the focus in Boyden’s depart-ment has been adding events to Hyste-ria to make it more exciting, she said.There was no men’s basketball dunk contest in 2011. Players and coaches also didn’t choose individual walk-out songs during team introductions. A dunk contest, 3-point shootout and introduction songs had been staples of past Hysterias, and Boyden said she wanted to bring those elements back. “I got a few complaints, and it was ‘Bring back the dunk contest’ and ‘We like seeing what songs they pick out,’”
she said. “It was just something fun…It’s rare you get to see (players) in thatlight, and it’s a chance to engage the fanbase.” Other promotions include free T-shirts to the fi rst 500 fans and give-aways to Dierks Bentley’s Homecom-ing concert next Thursday in Diddle. Despite all that, James Brandenburg,who covered both events during nineyears at Bowling Green’s WBKO-TV, saidBGHS-WCHS has more appeal thanHysteria to the average fan in town. Large numbers of WCHS and BGHSalumni still supporting their alma ma-ters’ football programs, plus the fact
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Junior guard Jay Starks dunks during warm-ups for last year’s Hilltopper Hysteria in Diddle Arena. LUKE SHARRETT/HERALD
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Huntley hits the Heisman
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HUDSONVolleyball coach
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• WKU vs. Florida
International volleyball
• T-shirt give-away for the fi rst 500 fans
• Men's and women's bas-ketball player introductions
• Men's and women's
intrasquad scrimmages
• 3-point shootout and
slam dunk contest
• Dierks Bent-ley concert
ticket drawings
