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Jamarcus Allen knows better than to look past a Football Championship Subdivision opponent.

Even with a game against defending na-tional champion Alabama looming a week away, the senior defensive tackle and team captain has watched the Toppers drop their last two games against FCS teams. He knows an opponent like Austin Peay is capable of an upset.

“They put on their shoulder pads just like we put on ours,” he said. “Anybody is capa-ble of beating anybody. We’re just going to go out there and play our best and come out

on top.”Allen and the Toppers will take the fi eld at

Smith Stadium at 6 p.m. on Saturday as they open the season against Austin Peay.

The Toppers are 0-2 in their last two games against schools from the lower-revenue FCS, including a 44-16 home beating by Indiana State last season.

Coach Willie Taggart said he hasn’t even mentioned that game to his team this year.

“I don’t think I have to,” he said. “I think our guys understand. We’re going to talk about Austin Peay and plan for Austin Peay.”

The start of the season hasn’t been friendly to the Toppers in recent years, either. hasn’t

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Students standing in long lines for food may be wondering when other options like RedZone or Panda Express will be open.

RedZone is currently scheduled to open Sept. 14, according to signs posted outside the restau-rant. Panda Express is scheduled to open on Sept. 23, according to the WKU Restaurant and Cater-ing group website.

Bryan Russell, director of Planning, Design and Construction, said that RedZone and Panda Ex-press took a back seat to other dining projects.

“Topper Cafe and Subway were the top priorities so that they could be ready when classes started,” Russell said.

Food venue delays cause long lines

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JEFF BROWN/ HERALD Sophomore wide receiver Willie McNeal, left, catches the pass going out of bounds against junior defensive back Arius Wright during WKU’s fi rst prac-tice. WKU plays its season opener against Austin Peay at 6 p.m. Saturday at Smith Stadium.

The bi-term proposal, which includes a controver-sial shift to per-credit hour billing, is under serious consideration by faculty, staff and students.

Formally announced at convocation faculty and staff convocation on August 24, the proposal puts emphasis on students taking more bi-term courses in order to graduate earlier and, ideally, save stu-dents money.

Gordon Emslie, provost and vice president for Ac-ademic Affairs, who headed up the proposal’s cre-ation, said he’ll be looking forward to feedback at the faculty senate meeting in September.

“One of the things I hope to be doing is engag-ing the academic quality committee to study it fur-ther, and the feedback will come as a result of that,” Emslie said.

President Gary Ransdell said this proposal, like any involving change, will be met with a degree of concern.

“I’ve been on a number of academic committees and a shift like this that requires signifi cant shift in thought is received with some dubiousness,” he said.

However, Ransdell believes the proposal has enough benefi ts for students and faculty to consider it.

Emslie said the initial bi-term schedule idea was a mandatory calendar shift. Currently, the proposal is a recommendation for professors to consider offer-ing more bi-term classes, he said.

“Hence the question mark at the end of the pro-posal’s title,” he said. “It’s a recommendation.”

Faculty regent Patricia Minter, however, sees the proposal as something much more serious.

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Tim Colley, director of Din-ing Services, said RedZone not being open is due to the size of the DUC project.

“RedZone is part of DUC renovation project and it’s a pretty big project,” Colley said.

Colley said RedZone will be putting in an upper fl oor in the restaurant.

“If you’ve been to Red-Zone before you know it had that double-high ceiling, but they’re putting in a deck back there,” Colley said. “And they’re putting in a fl oor for the upper fl oor since they’re not going have that double space now.”

Colley said the project has run a little long because the entire infrastructure has to be installed, systems such as plumbing and water.

“This year with RedZone we’re going to try to focus on more speed of service because most of the sales of RedZone are meal plan exchanges,” Col-ley said. “We’re going to look at how we can move things faster since it’s on a carry-out basis.”

Another campus restaurant facing delays is the new Panda Express located in Garrett Au-ditorium.

Colley said that chang-ing part of the auditorium to house a food service has been a challenge.

“There will be a considerate amount of changes to convert to a food service,” he said said.

Russell said that since Panda Express will be a new venue on campus, the equipment for it will be coming in from California and employees will have to be trained before it can open.

Popular locations such as RedZone not being open have likely contributed to long lines at currently open food loca-tions.

Nashville, Tenn., freshman Ke’Andrea Davis said she’s frustrated with the long lines.

“It’s frustrating because I have other things to do and I’ll be so hungry,” Davis said. “I leave sometimes and come back and the line is still long.”

Radcliff senior Antonio Mouncil said he’s used to waiting in long lines so it’s not too bad.

“It can be annoying when I get out of class because I feel like it’s such a rush,” Mouncil said.

Webster junior KaSandra Mitchell said students just have to be patient.

“You just have to be patient on a campus with 20,000 stu-dents,” Mitchell said. “I’m a pretty patient person, plus it’s a growing campus. That’s just part of it.”

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WKU hasn’t won a season-opener since 2005, when it was still an FCS program itself.

Taggart said a good start to the season will help to keep the Toppers from being over-looked if they’re bowl-eligible at the end of the season.

Last season, WKU went 7-5 but was shut out of the bowl process. The September loss to Indiana State likely cost the Toppers some leverage in the bowl selection process.

“It’s important that we come out and take care of our busi-ness and create a national identity, and you can’t do it if you don’t start off right,” Tag-gart said. “Our guys under-stand that.”

Taggart has been stressing to his team the importance of starting off the season with a win, senior quarterback Kawaun Jakes said.

“Coach T. said ‘Start fast.’ That being our fi rst game, that’s what we’re going to do,” Jakes said. “Our goal is to win the Sun Belt Championship, and we just need to go out, play hard and play together.”

WKU made the jump out of the FCS to the higher-revenue Football Bowl Subdivision in 2008 but has a rivalry with Austin Peay dating back to the schools’ days as rivals in the FCS’ Ohio Valley Conference.

The Toppers lead the all-time series 34-6-1, with WKU beat-

ing the Governors 24-14 in their last game in 2006.

Many prominent players from last season’s WKU team return to the team this year including Jakes, who has been the Toppers’ starting signal-caller since early in 2009.

The WKU defense brings back junior linebacker Andrew Jackson, who led the team in tackles last season but must make up for the loss of senior defensive lineman Quanterus Smith, last season’s sack lead-er, for a game.

Smith will serve a one-game suspension on Saturday for an undisclosed violation of team rules.

Much of the spotlight will also be on junior Keshawn Simp-son, who will start as a running back for WKU against Austin Peay, replacing the graduated Bobby Rainey. Simpson fi gures to share carries with junior An-tonio Andrews and freshman Leon Allen as well.

After a 7-5 season, the ex-pectations may be raised for the Toppers this year, but right now, they have one goal, Jakes said — beat Austin Peay.

“We’re not overlooking any-one,” he said. “It’s the fi rst game on our schedule, our guys are ready to play right now, and we can’t wait for Sat-urday.”

“If it’s voluntary, we don’t need a proposal,” Minter said. “This doesn’t seem driven by academic concerns, but a bait and switch over to per-credit hour billing.”

Ransdell said while it is early to discuss the serious implications of per-credit hour billing, the transi-tion is very possible.

“It’s a matter of time before most of higher education converts to per-credit hour billing,” he said. “I don’t know how long universities can give additional classes, essentially, for free.”

Student Government Association president Cory Dodds is working on a resolution opposing both the bi-term scheduling shift and the per-credit hour tuition billing.

In a document Dodds put togeth-er, the cost in tuition for four years of education at WKU under the bi-term plan would be $40,440, an in-crease of $6,552 from $33,888.

A student who graduated in three years by taking 18 hours each se-mester and enrolled in summer and winter courses would end up pay-ing over $11,000 more to graduate under the bi-term plan, according to Dodds’ document.

Ransdell said the loss of an addi-tional year in paying tuition would reduce the overall tuition payment for students, especially if they grad-uated in three years with the bi-term program.

“It might cost more per year, but that increase would pale in com-parison to the money avoided by taking another year of classes,” Ransdell said.

Hannah Garland, SGA Academic Affair Committee Chair, said this tuition increase would hurt WKU’s appeal to students.

“There are also no other public universities in Kentucky that oper-ate using this system, and thus, it would be harder for WKU to attract more students, especially non-tra-ditional students and transfer stu-dents,” Garland said.

Minter said the connection be-tween bi-term scheduling and a switch to pay per credit hour is “in-appropriate at this stage of the pro-posal.”

“If course shopping is the real problem — which I agree with Pro-vost Emslie on, it is a problem — is this really the best way to address the situation?”

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Tuition cost for 4 years/ with bi-terms

Tuition cost for 3 years with winter/ summer terms

Current CurrentProposed Proposed

$33,888.00 $40,440.00 $29,460.00 $40,440.00

• Freshman Aaron Selk, Keen Hall, reported around $1,190 worth of items stolen from his vehicle parked in Creason lot on Aug 29.

• Freshman Colin Perschbacher, Zacharias Hall, reported damage to his vehicle in Creason lot on Aug. 29. The cost of the damage is estimated at $50.

• Freshman Edward Zeitler, Pearce Ford Tower, was cited for possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and possession of alcohol by a minor on Aug. 29.

• Freshman Kyle McGrew, Keen, was cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on Aug 29.

• Freshman Treasur Carlene Alex-ius, Bemis Lawrence Hall, reported her cell phone stolen from the Pres-ton Center on Aug 28. The estimated value of the theft is $145.

• Junior Donae’ Lamont Marrow, PFT, was cited and released for shop lifting from the WKU Store on Aug. 27. The amount stolen was valued at $6.98.

• Kenneth Johnson, assistant di-rector of Student Activities, reported a Club Car golf cart stolen from the DUC patio near the Career Services entrance on Aug. 27. The estimated value of the theft is $3,200.

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This idea that I’m about to share isn’t new by any means.

It’s been quoted by Nerdfi ghters, Tum-blr and people on Facebook who claim to be nerds because they watched Star Wars Episode III with their signifi cant other one night when nothing else was on TV. The reason I want to place emphasis on it is because it’s a truth that applies to my life and has done so for many years.

And that truth is this: Being a nerd just means you’re passionate about some-thing. Which totally blows a hole in my statement about a guy claiming to be a nerd because he watched one Star Wars movie, because hey, he could be passion-ate about archaeology or meteorology or beekeeping. Does that make him a nerd? Why yes, it does. Like the quote says, I truly believe that passion is what drives nerds to do what they do, no matter what that is.

My actual point is this: I’ve always been a nerd. Whether I realized it or not, I’ve always focused on something in my life. Something that made me feel whole, in a sense. If I didn’t always hover on that

thought, I would feel lost or antsy. I need-ed something on which to focus my at-tention.

The earliest obsession I can remember was computers. Not how they functioned, or what they were capable of, but how they looked. I would sit in class and stare at this one Gateway computer and how pretty it was. Then I became obsessed with outfi ts, particularly outfi ts in music videos. How would they look on me? How would I feel in them? I fully admit, I was an odd kid. But you know what? Overall, I was a happy kid.

While at fi rst I obsessed over items, my fi rst real obsession was Pokémon. All the boys in my third-grade class would hud-dle around before the day began, trading and discussing things I still don’t under-stand. Then one day, I was hooked. It was my world. I bought the cards (though I never played), bought the outfi ts, bought the Pokeballs and even held my stuffed Bulbasaur as I was put under for my ton-sillectomy. Of course that obsession died out, but not much has changed.

While the subjects of my fascination change, the fascination itself will always remain. In particular, I thought my ob-session with movies would eventually

calm down, and I’d direct my interest in journalism towards political affairs. While those subjects are im-portant, and often frustrating, my love for everything pop culture overshadows my desire to drop that love and begin a life solely de-voted to which politi-cian said what. When I was younger I thought this feeling would go away, but instead it’s only grown stronger. When my mother told me last week that one day I’d probably fangirl less, I only half-agreed with her. Yes, I do want to have a lovely and busy life, but I’ll never give up my passion for pop culture. If I’m writing a story about a fi sh market in Japan, I’ll keep my eyes on the Holly-wood headlines. While they may not be the most important thing in the world, movies, books, music and all that is pop culture have enhanced my life, I honestly don’t know where I’d be without them.

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Yesterday, the Republican Party closed out its national conven-tion by nominating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as their ticket for the Presidency of the United

States. However, the GOP’s na-tional convention isn’t just a time where they display their party and their candidates for offi ce. It’s a time where the party lays out its vision for the next four years. The convention is an opportunity for the members of the GOP to bring their visions and ideas to the fl oor in order to have them placed on the party’s platform for the next four years.

This year, the Republican Party took a more conservative stance on their national platform. Over

the last four years, the party has seen its base move farther to the right and align themselves with the conservative movement. Thus, there has been a big push for the party to adopt a more con-servative platform. On Tuesday, that new conservative platform was fi nalized and passed. In the platform, the Republican Party takes a strong stance on issues such as traditional marriage, pro-tecting the rights of the unborn, and fi ghting to reduce the size and scope of government. The Republican Party believes that over the last four years, President Barack Obama has drastically expanded the size of government and has added trillions of dol-lars in new debt to our country. In the platform, the GOP calls out the Democratic idea of rais-ing taxes in a recession. The GOP plan explains that raising taxes as a means of jump-starting the economy is not the smart nor the right way to fi x the problem.

When taking a detailed look at the new Republican Platform, you can begin to see that the debate and upcoming election will focus on differences such as increasing or decreasing the size of government. Obama and the Democratic Party have made it all too clear that they are push-ing for more government and more taxes. The Republican Party and Romney want to down size government and reduce taxes on all levels of income as means of jump-starting the economy.

Which way is best? That’s for you to decide on Nov. 6!

DALTON WORKMANOPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

RNC — Republican National Committee: The

governing body of the Republican Party.

DNC — Democratic National Committee: The

governing body of the Democratic Party.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz — DNC Chairwoman:The representative of

the 20th Congressional district in Florida. She was

nominated by President Obama and voted into

power by the committee.

Reince Priebus — RNC Chairman:

He was the Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin and has been active in the Republican

Party since he was 16.

GOP — Grand Old Party:a common way to refer to

This is the expert’s corner. In the coming weeks, it will be fi lled with the wisdom of WKU faculty well-versed in the political areas the College Heights Herald will be cover-ing. Their purpose will be to provide an unbiased brief ac-count of the basics of each topic.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am not an expert. I am a stu-dent — of political science and politics.

My goal, and the goal of ev-eryone working on CHH Poli-tics, is simple. We want to edu-cate readers about politics. We want to answer the questions that plague many Americans. The big picture question is this: How do the various topics hammered away at by pundits on the news affect people like us directly?

How does something as esoteric as campaign fi nance affect a college student in Kentucky? How exactly do the new reforms to college loans

help or hurt s t u d e n t s in school now? The answers to these ques-tions are complicated and some-times con-tentious, but they matter. They matter because, in my opinion, democracy can only be an effective expression of what people want if those involved in it try their best to vote knowledgeably.

I have a goal. I want the read-ers of this page to walk into their polling place on Novem-ber 6 with confi dence. And I want that confi dence to rest in the fact that they know what is at stake, the issues at hand and have learned enough to know who they want to decide these things.

To that end, CHH Politics will have a theme each week, and the content of the page will center on that theme. This

portion will feature an unbi-ased expert look at the topic. Students will then “face-off” about the issue, offering two view distinct viewpoints about the topic. These differences of opinions will sometimes fall along party lines, but more of-ten than not in conversations like the one this page hopes to create, the differences be-gin and end somewhere other than a party identity, as peo-ple rarely fall into boxes. Our ideologies are a collection of ideas and values that form over years. They are as com-plicated as we are and can’t be summed up with one word, be it “Democrat” or “Republi-can.”

That being said, there are entities who work to create those boxes, in a manner of speaking. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Republican National Committee (RNC) are govern-ing bodies of their respective parties. They serve the party by organizing the presidential nomination conventions and promoting the party’s plat-

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Student face-off: Party National Committees

Next week, Charlotte, N.C., hosts one of the biggest parties of the year. James Taylor, Jeff Bridges, President Barack Obama and other VIPs will attend the big event: the Democratic National Convention. Beginning on Monday, the Demo-crats will give speeches, confi rm their Presidential nominee and vote on a party platform. The plat-form is the only unknown.

Think of the party platform as a roadmap for the country on many issues ranging from college fi nancing to healthcare. A national committee of party members puts together the party’s stance on these issues and presents it to the national convention for approval and adoption. The Democratic platform isn’t public, other than the parts on same-sex marriage, until the convention. I was able to patch together a probable platform from various sources. The highlights:

On education, Democrats reaf-fi rmed their support for increased funding for Pell Grants and Early Head Start programs through Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Support for same-sex marriage and the amending of the Violence Against Women Act to include dis-crimination against homosexuals were part of gender and civil rights positions.

The draft committee praised the president’s plan to revitalize the economy through assisting the middle class with tax-cuts and healthcare from the Afford-

able Care Act of 2010, investing in government-funded innovation and rewarding companies that “in-source” by creating domestic jobs.

The foreign policy platform cen-tered on the troop draw-down in Iraq and Afghanistan and the kill-ing of Osama Bin Laden.

Before continuing, let me confess that I’m an Independent. I don’t agree with all of the Democratic platform or Obama’s policies.

I heard no mention of Guanta-namo —t he place that Democrats and Republicans blocked the President from closing — in the platform discussions. I appreciate Pell Grants, but I don’t want to pay them off in the form of excessive national debt. Even though I grit my teeth while reading, I look at the Republican National Conven-tion and sigh, “It could be worse.”

KWABENA BOATENGOPINION@WKUHERALD.COM

Suppose the presidential election was held today.

If Barack Obama were the Democratic Party’s candidate and Mitt Romney were the Republican Party’s candidate, who would you vote for Barack Obama, the Democrat or Mitt Romney, the Republican?*

Obama Romney

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Women 50% 42%

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@MittRomney — In America, the outcome may not be guaranteed, but the opportunity is (8/21)

@MittRomney — If you have a business and you started it, you did build it. And you deserve credit for that #WeBuiltIt (8/28)

@MittRomney — #WeBuiltIt. Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. Be proud of your success (8/29)

@BarackObama — President Obama: “We just won the fi ght to keep federal student loan rates from doubling for more than 7 million students.” (8/28)

@BarackObama — “In 2 months, you get to choose a path that actually will lead to a better future. You will have the chance to prove the cynics wrong.” (8/28)

@BarackObama — President Obama: “We have come too far to turn back now. We’ve got more work to do.” (8/28)

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Students looking for a way downtown, or to their friend’s apartment, have a new option thanks to two new bus lines.

The Yellow Line runs Monday through Friday and goes downtown from 6 to 9:30 p.m. The Purple Line runs from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and stops at apart-ment complexes Thursday through Saturday.

The Purple Line is a fi xed-route service that replaces the Provide-A-Ride service WKU offered in the past. It will make stops at the Gables, College Suites, off-campus apartments on Campbell Lane, downtown and main campus.

Both lines have already started transporting students.Transit Manager Stephen Rowland said a good number of students have

already ridden. 53 students rode the Yellow Line on its opening night, and 280 students rode the Purple Line over its fi rst two nights of service, Row-land said.

Jennifer Tougas, director of Parking and Transportation, said a survey her department conducted in February found the need for a shuttle to take stu-dents downtown.

“The No. 1 request was for evening service, and the number-four request was to go downtown, so with the Yellow Line we’re doing both,” Tougas said. “It’s a great way for us to help students go downtown.”

Parking and Transportation partnered with the Student Government As-sociation, who partially funded Provide-A-Ride to create the Purple Line.

SGA President Cory Dodds said that the contract with the provider, Frank-lin Taxi, ended at the start of the 2010-2011 school year because the service was late picking up students and not safe.

Tougas said Franklin Taxi didn’t meet expectations of the service.“The last vendor that provided that service was really not able to keep up

with the demand of the service, and as a result of that, we ended our con-tract with them,” Tougas said.

Tougas also said she felt that students abused Provide-A-Ride.“Its original intention was if you fi nd yourself in a situation where you

don’t need to drive, call this number,” she said. “It became a ‘Hey, let’s call this and reserve our trips and everybody go out to this party,' and that was not the intention of it.”

The cost for the Purple Line is $30,000, which was the same price as Pro-vide-A-Ride. SGA and Parking and Transportation will continue to split the cost.

SGA can use its funding as it wishes. Dodds stressed that there is a not a student fee that funds Purple Line.

“Once we got our budget from that fee, we split it up to different things, scholarships, discretionary funding, and whenever we had Provide-A-Ride, we always set off $15,000 from our budget; same with the Purple Line,” he said.

“$30,000 sounds like a lot for this service, but you can’t put a price on a life,” he said.

Bardstown sophomore Monet Becker is upset with the idea that part of her tuition is funding Purple Line.

“I don’t see how that money is being used for academic purposes,” she said. “Since Western is an academic institution, I don’t think that SGA should use that money to fund, like I said, an after-hours basically drunk taxi service.”

Becker said instead of the Purple Line, she would rather see a stronger police presence on campus.

JOSHUA LINDSEY/HERALD The new Yellow Line off ers WKU students transit service between main campus and downtown Bowling Green in the evening.

New bus lines expand service to downtown, apartments

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WKU policies regarding crimes on campus are getting a fresh examination.

Deborah Wilkins, chief of staff and general counsel, is planning a reassessment of how crimes are reported on campus. The goal is to make certain that WKU is up-todate and com-plies with national and state standards.

Wilkins said she was inspired to look into WKU’s policies after the Penn State football scandal, re-garding head coach Joe Paterno and assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. That case resulted in a $60 million fi ne, a football bowl game ban, and foot-ball scholarship sanctions for the university.

“While I obviously don’t believe we’ll ever have the magnitude of a situation such as the one at Penn State, it’s always good to go back through and check policies you haven’t in a while,” Wilkins said. “This is so we make sure we have the poli-cies in place that Penn State was lacking.”

Wilkins said she printed off an in-depth inves-tigation of the case simply because “it was inter-esting.”

She was "encouraged by President (Gary) Rans-dell to look at how the report’s fi ndings could be applied to WKU.”

Ransdell said he is confi dent in the university’s current policies, and supports Wilkins’ reexami-nation process.

“I think she’ll fi nd we’re pretty good and com-pliant with federal and state requirements re-garding criminal activity,” Ransdell said.

Wilkins’ primary focus is making sure univer-sity policies are compliant with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Cam-pus Crime Statistics Act.

According to the Clery Act, universities receiv-ing federal fi nancial aid must make campus crimes reports and statistics public.

While Wilkins said she’s confi dent the policies are compliant, she said she’s looking to update and further expand sev-eral policies.

“Our sexual harass-ment policies were origi-nally drafted in 1998,

so it’s time to look at it,” she said. “It’s served us well, but it’s time to look at it and see if we need to change things.”

Wilkins also plans on developing policies re-lated to minors, specifi c to children on campus.

“To my knowledge, we don’t have anything spe-cifi c to children on campus,” she said. “These are the things we need to look at, because that’s what happened with Sandusky. He was given permis-sion to bring kids to the campus, and use their athletic facilities… Here we have children come not just for athletic events but for things like VAMPY (Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth) camp and things like that.”

The review is a necessary precaution, Ransdell said.

“I hope every university in America is doing the same thing,” Ransdell said.

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WKU’s top scholarships may be more inclu-sive in the coming 2013-2014 academic year.

For the two top scholarships for incoming students — the Presidential Scholarship and the Award of Excellence Scholarship — the current grade point average required coming in is a 3.95 and an ACT score of 31.

But as Gordon Emslie, provost and vice pres-ident for Academic Affairs points out, it only lets those students earn one B in high school to qualify.

Emslie said the university is in the process of changing these requirements

“In a nutshell, every student with a 3.8 and up and 31 (on the ACT) will be able to com-pete for the two top scholarship levels,” Emslie said.

Emslie said the same amount of scholarships will be given out — about 20 for those in the top tier and 100 for those in the second tier.

But the GPA and ACT requirements aren’t the only aspects of these scholarships to be changed. The top-tier scholarships will be called the Cherry Presidential Scholarship and 1906 Founders Scholarship.

Their names would change in the 2013-2014 academic year.

Regents Scholarships, for students who have at least a 3.8 GPA and 28 to 30 ACT, are still available for those students who compete for the two higher level scholarships and do not receive them.

President Gary Ransdell said the scholarship changes would help those kinds of students.

“In addition to the fi nancial benefi t, there’s also a self-esteem and tangible reward aspect of the new scholarship distribution policy that pen-etrates a little deeper into this pool of good stu-dents,” Ransdell said.

Ransdell said there are students with high ACT scores, but because of one or two Bs on their GPA, they miss out on scholarship assis-tance.

“We want to redirect scholarship resources for very good students,” Ransdell said. “Those with ACT scores in the high 20s and a GPA of 3.5 and above typically do just as well as stu-dents with higher scores. We are losing those students to other universities for want of mod-est scholarships.”

Another signifi cant change in the scholar-ship program is the automatic scholarships for students in the 3.3 to 3.8 levels of high school GPA and with a 26 on the ACT.

“By making that automatic, we hope to get a lot of students who are frankly currently going elsewhere when they could be coming here,” Emslie said.

He said that effectively, WKU is getting paid partial tuition from those students.

“We’d rather have that than zero number of full tuition paying students,” he said.

Kathryn Costello, vice president for Develop-ment and Alumni Relations, said this fall her department is focusing on a scholarship cam-paign to raise money.

Costello said fundraising is vital to fund stu-dent scholarships.

“So, when you talk about fundraising, as stu-dents, you don’t often think about the fact that it directly benefi ts students and, of course, that’s our major purpose, is to help the aca-demic programs of the university," Costello said.

Costello said the university will also start matching endowed scholarships.

“That is, if people want to provide an en-dowment, the university will match the earn-ing equivalent of that endowment,” she said. “Once the endowment is funded and that means that we can kind of incentivize people, we hope, to provide a larger gift than they might get and then they’ll get a bigger bang for their buck, so to speak,” Costello said.

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The Faculty Undergraduate Student Engagement (FUSE) program is giving students the chance to work on their own research.

FUSE funds students and allows them to work with a fac-ulty member as their mentor.

Once they’re done, students get the chance to submit a research proposal for the opportunity to get their full proj-ect funded.

Gordon Baylis, vice president for Research, said he wants research to be centered on the students.

Students who work on FUSE projects are required to sign up for UC 400, rather than attending class.

“FUSE — doing the research — is the class,” Baylis said. FUSE will give away grants totaling $500,000 in the pro-

gram’s fi rst year.The grants will be given to 100 students, 53 of which have

already received them. Applications for the program need to be submitted to a faculty mentor by Oct. 22.

Alice Byrne, a New York City post-baccalaureate student, is one of the recipients of the FUSE grant. Byrne is currently working with her faculty mentor, Hemali Rathnayake, on us-ing organic substances to create a solar panel that could be used to gather sun rays and create energy.

The solar panel would be smaller and less rigid than the widely used large solar panels that are on the roofs of buildings.

“We’re talking about something that’s very fl exible,” By-rne said.

Byrne also said the device is so tiny that it is almost trans-parent. It could potentially be used in private homes in-stead of just commercial buildings.

“It could be put onto your window, and most people won’t even realize that you’ve got solar panels on your home, but you’ve got them all over your windows,” Byrne said.

The device would be an environmentally friendly way to generate electricity.

“Being environmentally friendly is defi nitely something that I keep at the forefront of my mind,” Byrne said.

Louisville junior Lauren French was also awarded a FUSE grant. French, along with her faculty mentor, Liza Kelly, at-tended a music program in Liberty, Mo., over the summer.

French also learned the way that different music can af-fect different parts of a person’s energy. She also got the chance to perform at the program.

“The basic idea behind it is that it puts student research fi rmly and squarely in the hands of students,” Baylis said.

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My name is Tessa, I am 21 years old, I just moved into my fi rst house, and I survive on pre-packaged foods.

It’s not that I’m incapable of cooking or cleaning; it’s that I just don’t wanna. Slowly but surely I’m accepting that I probably won’t survive past the age of 25 on peanut butter, mac-n-cheese and sug-ary cereal.

My Pinterest account has 1,927 pins on 31 boards. It’s a lot, I know. In an at-tempt to separate the things I actually like from the things that fail miserably, there are three boards you should know about: “These things actually work” for things that, well, actually work; “Meh” for things that were mediocre; and “Not impressed” left me as satisfi ed as McKayla Maroney with a silver medal.

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If Tessa is classifi ed as “domestically dis-abled,” I’d say you could most likely call me a “domestic diva.”

My Pinterest isn’t something I visit a lot, but when I need ideas, it’s my No. 1 go-to. If ever it fails me (and let’s be honest, it does) I go straight to my momma.

Together, we — the leading ladies of the College Heights Herald — have dubbed ourselves the “Pin Up Girls.”

In an attempt to eat healthier (for cheaper), dress better (also for cheaper) and have cuter houses (for as cheap as absolutely possible), we’re undertaking

some serious Pinterest adventures.The benefi t for you? When we succeed,

you get helpful (and hopefully money-saving) ideas. When we fail, you get to laugh at us. It’s a win-win for everyone.

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“I love being on stage, and I love to perform,” she said. “To do that in not-as-quite-pres-sured of an environment is re-ally really nice.”

She also appreciates the net-

working opportunities.“Being in choral society will

help me be able to jump into another community and per-form,” she said. “It’s preparing me for the next ‘stage’ of my life.”

For Wells, if she cut choir out of her life, there would be a

chunk missing because she’s in love with performing. She said she loves the community that supports her and holds her to the high standards that the majors and graduate assis-tants are held to.

Special education student Lindsey Basham, a Bowling

Green junior, is in Women’s Chorus.

Basham said this was her fourth semester being in the choir and there were no disad-vantages to fi tting it into her schedule.

“It’s a way of expression,” she said. “It’s not really a class.”

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Run honors vets

Most Americans can tell you exactly where they were on Sept. 11, 2001. The attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon rocked the na-tion and brought many together in support of the military and efforts against terrorism.

In honor of the 11th an-niversary of the attacks, the WKU Student Vet-erans Alliance will host the fi rst Kentucky 9/11 Heroes Run at Kereiakes Park on Sept. 8. Registra-tion and activities will begin at 3 p.m. for those who do not register on-line. The 5K will begin at 5:30 p.m., preceded by a ceremony to honor local service personnel and a moment of silence to re-member the fallen.

Madisonville senior Su-san Slaton, 28, is a U.S. Army Reserve veteran and director for the local race. Her goal is to have 200 runners.

Slaton said her involve-ment in the race is very personal because of her service in Iraq.

“9/11 was a catalyst that changed my life, and I want to honor those people,” she said.

Last year, Slaton vis-ited the 9/11 memorial in Chandler Chapel. She said it felt like a call to ac-tion.

“I knew I needed to be a part of something lo-cally to help Bowling Green remember 9/11,” she said.

According to the press release, half of the pro-ceeds from the event will go to the Travis Manion Foundation and half to the Pennyroyal Veterans

Center in Hopkinsville.The Travis Manion

Foundation is dedicated to “honoring the fallen by challenging the liv-ing,” the release said.

The foundation was created in honor of Tra-vis Manion, a Marine killed in Iraq. Manion’s family, through the foun-dation, began the Heroes Run fi ve years ago.

With 47 race locations nationwide, this is the only Heroes Run in the Kentucky–Tennessee area.

The Pennyroyal Vet-erans Center opened in February and provides support for homeless veterans.

“We want to identify homeless veterans and provide them treat-ment — whether that is substance abuse, men-tal health or job skills — all with the fi nal goal of discharging them to their own living environ-ment that they can pay for,” Center Coordinator Howard Dixon told The Kentucky New Era.

William Stolz, a fresh-man from New Jersey, respects that goal fi rst-hand. Stolz is a U.S. Navy veteran who is volun-teering at the run to re-member 9/11, like his hometown did in recent years.

“They would always try to do something to honor all of the fallen during that tragic day,” he said. “I have seen a few of these types of events, and they always unite people of different cultures together for one day as a country, not as individuals.”

Slaton is still looking for volunteers, runners and donations.

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WKU is coming off two consecutive shutouts of Ohio Valley Conference teams, one coming in an electrifying home opener against Austin Peay on Tuesday in Diddle Arena.

But if the Lady Toppers want to move their record over .500 for the year, they’ll have to make a statement at the Holiday Inn Jefferson Cup this weekend in Charlottesville, Va.

WKU is scheduled to play tourna-ment host Virginia at 6 p.m. on Fri-day, Delaware at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Lehigh at 4 p.m. on the same day.

Coach Travis Hudson said this is a “really, really important weekend” for WKU.

“The next two tournaments both have two top 25 teams in them,” Hudson said. “This weekend is a tournament that if we play well, I be-lieve we’ll have a chance to win.”

Despite losses in its fi rst two games, the team has all the confi dence it needs now, defensive specialist Ashley Potts said.

“We were defi nitely moti-vated,” Potts said. “We know that those were two great teams (Louisville and Penn State) to start out with, but we were ready to get back in the gym and work on what we needed to.”

Friday night, the Lady Toppers will face a Cavalier squad entering their home court 1-2 after the Rocky Mountain Invite in Colorado.

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Dennis Hohenshelt said in his week-ly “Coaches’ Corner” that “Western Kentucky has been tested early and will be ready to play” his Cavalier team.

While WKU had an early exit in the 2011 NCAA Tournament at the hands of Marquette, its Saturday-morning

opponent, Delaware, advanced to the second round before being put out by Penn State.

Delaware, the two-time defending Colonial Athletic Association champi-ons, will enter the tournament having not won a set yet this season. The 0-2 Blue Hens are coming off of losses to San Diego State and No. 17 California.

The Lehigh Lady Mountain Eagles just started their season with a home opening win versus Rider 3-1. Lehigh wrapped up its 2011 campaign 19-10.

The Lady Mountain Eagles will be led by outside-hitter Jade Van Streep-en, who had 15 kills and 11 digs in four sets in their win against Rider.

Taylor Poole is middle blocker, who also will be bringing a threat to the Lady Toppers, as she accounted for 14 kills, four digs, and one block.

Hudson said if the team wants to leave the tournament suc-cessful, then the middle blockers must play well.

“We still have to han-dle the ball better,” Hud-son said. “We need to get Melanie Stutsman — even though she’s distributing the ball well — more a part of our offense, and we have to continue to work with our middles.

“If you see us in three weeks and our middle play is really good, I think you’re going to see good results from us.”

The Lady Toppers will need to make the most of this weekend before their trip to Cincinnati Tuesday night.

“The challenge is going to be there,” Hudson said. “We certainly feel like this is a tournament that we can win, and we need to go down there and play well to give us a little bit of cush-ion.”

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WKU found plenty of cross country success in the 2011-2012 season.

The Lady Toppers won their sixth cross country conference championship in a row last season. It was WKU’s 18th straight women’s Sun Belt Confer-ence championship across indoor and outdoor track and cross country.

The men’s team also swept its conference cham-pionships in 2011-2012.

“To be able to accomplish what the men accom-plished was extremely difficult and an outstanding feat,” said Erik Jenkins, 2011 Sun Belt Coach of the Year.

WKU will start its march back to a Sun Belt title on Friday, as it travels to Nashville for the Belmont Opener.

Jenkins said the team is “well prepared for” a meet in which opponents will include Kentucky, Tennes-see and Sun Belt rival Middle Tennessee State.

“We are working hard, the kids are focused, the coaches are focused, and we are excited in both the student-athlete and the coaches perspective,” Jen-kins said. “They have got to all work together, that’s the bottom line.”

WKU goes into the meet and the season with high expectations, as both the men’s and women’s teams were picked on Wednesday to defend their Sun Belt titles.

The Toppers received 10 out of 12 first-place votes as they hope to win back-to-back conference titles for the first time since 1997-1998.

Meanwhile the Lady Toppers received six out of 12 first-place votes as they work towards their seventh consecutive Sun Belt title.

The men’s team is returning three of its top five runners and adding senior Joseph Chebet, who has previously competed in other track disciplines at WKU.

Chebet broke the 3,000 meter Sun Belt record for track, won the 5,000 and 10,000 meter Sun Belt Championships, and placed 23rd at the NCAA Tournament in the 5,000 meter event.

This will be his first cross country season with the Toppers, as he was a midyear transfer in 2011-2012.

“(The men) had success the year before, but in order to sustain that success, or hopefully build off that success, we have to work hard,” Jenkins said. “We have to stay healthy. Anytime you compete in a sport, health is a major issue.”

Jenkins said he is also expecting great things from

men’s sophomore David Mokone and women’s se-nior Vasity Chemweno, both of whom had big sea-sons last year.

Mokone recorded three Top 10 finishes last sea-son out of the five meets he competed in, earning Sun Belt Freshman of the Year honors.

“David is an athlete that is very driven to compete on a national level,” Jenkins said.

Meanwhile, Chemweno posted three Top 10 fin-ishes out of six meets and earned All-Sun Belt hon-ors after posting a fourth place finish at the Sun Belt Cross Country Championship.

“Coming in as the cross country champions I be-lieve we as a team have a lot to sacrifice in order to retain the title,” she said. “So my wish is for us to ex-tend the win to this year for both men and women.”

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Cross Country starts title defense Friday

MEGAN TAN/HERALDMichelle Finn, Kim Dominguez, Taylor Carlin and Lindsey Hinken lead the WKU women’s cross country team through the paths of Bowling Green’s Kereiakes Park on Wednesday as the team prepares for their fi rst meet this Friday in Nashville.

WKU off ense clicking early this season

Starting on Tuesday, WKU fans will be able to re-live the dramatic fi nal weeks of the Toppers’ 2011-2012 men’s basketball season on DVD and Blu-Ray.

“25 Days of Triumph: All-Access with 2011-12 Men’s Basketball from Transition to Tourna-ment Success” will be available at Minit Mart stores, WKU athletic events, Amazon.com and WKUSports.com.

The DVD version will cost $19.95, while the Blu-Ray edition will cost $24.95.

The documentary will detail the 25 days be-tween Ray Harper being named permanent head coach on Feb. 19 and WKU’s NCAA Tour-nament Second Round loss to Kentucky on March 19.

The documentary will chronicle WKU’s sev-en comeback wins in that stretch, including a 16-point comeback with less than fi ve minutes to play against Mississippi Valley State in the

NCAA Tournament First Four.The documentary will include interviews with

players, coaches and other key fi gures.

Baseball hosting Labor Day Showcase Camp

Matt Myers and his staff will be evaluating hundreds of high school players on Sunday during the annual Labor Day Showcase Camp at Nick Denes Field.

Almost half the current WKU roster attended a Labor Day Showcase camp.

“The Labor Day Showcase has been a very important showcase for us in recruiting,” Myers said in a release. “It gives the kids the chance to be on our fi eld, on our campus and at the same time having us evaluate them.

“It will be an all-day event for our coaching staff, but a very productive day. It is good for the kids coming in because they get a chance to showcase their abilities in front of our staff.”

For information on the camp, visit WKUbase-ballcamp.com.

— Brad Stephens

The Lady Toppers have exceeded ex-pectations so far this season through four games. “We anticipated that

it would be a little bit more diffi cult this early in the season for us to create opportunities to score,” coach Ja-son Neidell said. “But we’ve created plenty of chances to score, so it’s been a pleasant sur-prise.” This year WKU has

scored in each of its fi rst four games, the

fi rst time that’s hap-pened since 2008. In all, WKU has scored

nine goals, which is the most since 2008 and the fourth most in pro-gram history through four games.That’s a big accom-

plishment consider-ing the team lost two of the best players in program history, goal-ie Libby Stout and for-ward Mallory Outer-bridge, to graduation last year, Neidell said. Outerbridge was the

program’s all time leading scorer, while Stout has gone on to sign a profession-

al contract with F.F. Yzeure Allier Auvergne in France, making her the fi rst WKU player to make the pros.“When you lose key

players like Libby Stout and Mallory Outer-bridge, you tend to pick up the pieces by committee,” Neidell said. “So everyone’s a key player and I think that’s the philosophy we want to move for-ward with. It seems to be working so far.”But Neidell said one

player in particular has made a huge impact so far this year.“Amanda Beuchel has

scored four goals in four games, and that’s a player who has done that coming off of two torn ACLs,” he said. “When we tested out at the beginning of the season, she’s come back faster and stron-ger in every single test than she’s ever been before.”Beuchel is a sixth year

senior who missed the last two seasons due to her knee injuries. She was named the

Sun Belt Conference player of the week for the prior week.“I’ve been here for six

years, so I have a lot of

experience,” Beuchel said. “I try to use my past experiences and other players’ past ex-periences to lead the team now as other girls have led me here.”The freshmen have

also been key con-tributors and brought energy to the team, Neidell said.The freshmen and

upperclassmen work together to produce a team-oriented con-cept, Neidell said. WKU has done well

passing and spreading the ball out as opposed to relying on a great keeper or one major

scorer.The team’s biggest

strength is the fact that anyone can step on the fi eld at any moment and elevate the game, Beuchel said. “We don’t have a weak

moment when some-one steps off,” she said. “We’re a really solid team.”Last Friday night’s 3-0

win over Xavier in the Ball State Tournament is a perfect example of the team’s strength and the player’s versatil-ity, Neidell said. Of the 11 starters, eight took shots.Neidell said he’d like

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Student sings for expression

Taking on the Hill can be a challenge for some stu-dents. The stress of assignments and the repetition of classes can sometimes become monotonous. This is why extracurricular activities can be refreshing.

Mechanical engineering student Kathleen Anger-bauer is a member of the Choral Society.

“I’ve grown up with music,” the Bowling Green soph-omore said. “In high school, I was the music/choir person, but I knew I didn’t want to major in it.”

Angerbauer said she was always told even if she didn’t major in music to join a choir to keep it up.

“I found Choral Society and found it very conve-nient,” she said. “They meet one day a week in the evening.”

Paul Hondorp leads the Southern Kentucky Choral Society. A person must audition to join.

“It’s a mild audition,” Angerbauer said. “They want to know if you can read music.”

The society is open to the community also, not just students. However, WKU students can count it as a hu-manities class.

Angerbauer said she’s been singing ever since she could remember.

“It’s hard to put in words,” she said. “It makes me feel happy.”

For her, choir is a stress reliever. She said it adds ar-tistic expression to her science- and math-fi lled days.

“It’s a release for any thoughts or emotions you have over the week,” she said.

Photojournalism and biology major and Shelbyville sophomore Machala Wells has been in a choir since she was 3.

“I can focus on fun, instead of being perfect,” Wells said.

She said her friends think it’s weird that she’s a mem-ber of the choral society.

“Choir is a community in and of itself, and there is always a sense of a family environment rather than a competitive environment,” Wells said.

She thought it was great that Hondorp allowed non-majors into the choir because she said they’re just as talented as majors can be.

Wells said singing benefi ts her because she’s a little bit of a diva.

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There’s fashion, and there’s style. Trends change with the sea-sons, but fashion sense permeates through whatever the “it” thing is at the moment. In the words of French design-er Yves Saint Laurent, “Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

With that being said, the purpose of this column is to give you the tips you need to be fabulous according to your personal style. Each Friday, we — the Chic Chicks — will not only let you know what’s trending, but how to make it your own. Let’s get acquainted.

I’m Zirconia Alleyne, a senior from Hopkins-ville, and I’ve loved fash-ion ever since I knew it entailed more than just clothes. It includes shoes, handbags, ac-cessories, hair, makeup and the list goes on. It’s an all-inclusive idea. I’m the style enthusiast rooting for you to throw on that fur boa or leath-er mini-skirt, as long as you’ve got the gusto to pull it off. Since I’m not an all-knowing fashion guru, I’ve pulled two other “chic chicks” to contribute to this col-umn.

Monta Reinfelde is a junior from Liepaja, Lat-via, who was also born a fashionista.

“When nobody was at home I secretly used to dress up in my mom’s highest heels, prettiest dresses and pretend I’m a model in a fashion show,” Reinfelde said.

Now, she’s addicted to fashion and lifestyle magazines with hopes to work for one in the near future.

“I believe fashion mat-ters,” she said. “You don’t have to wait for special occasions to dress up. You can do it on a daily basis to make every day of your life feel special.”

Senior Amber Plun-kett, of Clarksville, Tenn., adores fashion and style because it is so much more than an expression of one’s per-sonality.

“I believe that clothing, be it fashion-forward or classic styles, outra-geously expensive or budget-friendly, all have the ability to change a woman’s self- image for the better,” she said.

We all believe that if you look good, you feel good. We want to equip you with the knowledge of how to make hot-off-the-runway trends complement the body you have. Oscar Wilde said it best — “You can never be overdressed or over educated.”

Here’s our fi rst sug-gestion to personalizing your inner chic chick:

When you have an 8 a.m. class, it’s easy to throw on those ratty sweatpants, a baggy T-shirt and fl ip-fl ops. Our advice — skip it. If you’re going for cute and com-fy, throw on a loose maxi skirt, colorful cami and strappy sandals. It’s that same relaxing feel with an ounce more effort and a pinch of pizazz.

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DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/HERALDSophomore Machala Wells, a photojournalism and biology major, is a member of the Choral Society and has been in chorus since she was 3.

At 7 years old, Sebastian Kearney’s mom came to him and said she’d seen a newspaper ad about auditions for a children’s show at the Shelby County Community Theater.

“It sounded like fun,” Kearney said. “It just seemed like the next cool thing to try out.”

Now, he doesn’t know what he would do without acting.

“When it came to college, I was like, ‘I don’t know anything else,’” the Simpsonville native said.

The theater student has been in several productions, including “Little Shop of Horrors,” in which he was Audrey II.

“I got to play the man-eating plant. I was the voice offstage,” he said. “Villains are fun to play because they don’t have boundaries.”

His goal with any role is to properly show the character. Kearney said others have described him as honest.

He said he usually ends up play-ing the more comedic roles, like the desperate virgin, which he described as a character who “tries really hard, but never quite makes it.”

Kearney doesn’t expect to be cast as the main romantic lead. He said he isn’t the guy with the chiseled chin.

“I’m not Brad Pitt,” he said.The 21-year-old also said he isn’t

completely locked into a style be-cause he’s still developing it. Instead, he approaches performances with his happy-go-lucky view. He is always ready to jump on the stage and per-form.

Oak Grove sophomore Vernell

Bourne met Kearney because of their common major.

“He is very good and committed to his work,” Bourne, 21, said. “His stage performance is very well, very good.”

He described Kearney as an all-around good guy.

Although they haven’t been in any productions together, Bourne has seen his friend in rehearsals and on-stage in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

“He was hilarious and amazing,” Bourne said.

Kearney said he isn’t a method actor but sometimes feels the traits of his character in “The Rocky Horror Pic-ture Show.”

“Once you dress in drag and walk around in thigh-highs and a corset, you are very comfortable with sex,” he said.

Louisville senior Alexa Holloway, 22, met Kearney in the theater depart-ment. She is currently working with Kearney on his next production.

“He brings the light in the room,” she said.

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IAN MAULE/HERALD Senior Sebastian Kearney, of Simpsonville, has been acting since the age of 7 and will be in the upcoming production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" later this semester. " It reminds me of child-hood, when you could just be whoever you wanted to be. One day you were a cowboy, the next a spaceman. It's innocent fun." says Kearney about acting.

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