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It may have been the best infield spot at the Daytona InternationalSpeedway in the hot and humid hours Saturday before the Coke Zero400.

A set of hoses ran cold water for campers at Tent City, the infieldsection between Turns 3 and 4. The water was a lifesaver for Ray Bar-rientes, a NASCAR dad from West Palm Beach who’s had a reserved spotnear Turn 4 for 9 years. He brought his 7-year-old daughter Maria for herfirst race Saturday and they made several trips to the hoses.

“This is our eighth trip to the hose since 9 a.m.,” Barrientes said. “Everytime there was a free hose, we stop by to get a little wet and keep cool.”

The neighboring tent had a kiddie pool available, but the pool watergets warm in the midday sun. “We can use that pool but because thiswater is colder, it’s better,” he said.

Getting hosed not a bad thing

Jasmine Giddens of Kirkland, Ga., was attending her first July race at Daytona but foundout quickly how important it was to have a kiddie pool at their infield campsite. She andboyfriend Beau Turpin of Albany, Ga., hand-pumped the pool, but that was easy comparedto the challenge of figuring out how to fill it up.

“Setting up the pool took up the better part of the day,” Giddens said. “There aren’t manyplaces to get water, so we had to find the water and then we had to figure out how to get it

in the pool.”The solution: driving their pickup truck to the hoses, filling up the pool while it sat inside

the truck bed, and driving back to their campsite, very carefully and slowly.“But everyone was so helpful to us.”Relaxing in the pool, with beverage in hand, the couple were ready for their first Coke

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Filling up the kiddie pool can be a grown-up chore

Talk about parental devotion.A dozen volunteers for the Seminole High School Dazzlers dance team worked at the food and

drink booths at the infield Fan Zone. Saturday’s shift started at 9:30 a.m, lasted through the afternoon race, the Brumos Porsche 250, and

the late night end of the NASCAR race.And some of the parents had already worked long shifts on Thursday and Friday. But it’s a good fund-raiser, thanks to the 10 percent proceeds that the group gets. The proceeds

help to fund trips for the team, which has won seven U.S. Dance championships. “You’re on your feet for 18 hours,” said Troy Stickle of Lake Mary, whose daughter, Krista, dances

with the team. “It’s worth it because we do it for the girls.”Stickle and Sherette Salter, whose niece is dancer Krystle Rosario, at least could keep cooler than the

parents grilling the sausages. They doled out the ice-cold water and Coke beverages for thirsty fans.“This feels really good when you’ve been here all day,” said Stickle as he dipped his hand into the

melted ice to serve four water bottles.

Parents step up for Seminole dance team

One Daytona Beach cafe has discovered how much it pays to Twitter, gaining a NASCAR driver as anew customer.

The Daily Grind Coffee and Cafe in Daytona sends out daily tweets of its menu specials on its account@dailygrinddb, which prompted a hungry Kyle Petty to visit.

Turns out that Petty uses his twitter account, @kylepetty, to look for local eateries at each city on theNASCAR circuit.

Petty and his entourage enjoyed breakfast and then sent out a picture (http://twitpic.com/91j7t) andtweet, raving about the egg and cheese sandwiches and “the BEST cup of coffee in Daytona Beach area.”

Petty tweets up Daytona Beach cafe

Need a lanyard for your Speedway ticket? Renell Rich of Fort Lauderdaleoffered racing fans a unique set of homemade lanyards, which she dis-played on a pole as she walked around the infield.

She stitched about 100 of them with a variety of fabrics: a few red-white-and-blue cords, a set using the flame design that now decorates Jeff Gor-don’s car, and for your NASCAR fashionista, a set using the fabric familiar tofans of the Vera Bradley quilted cotton bags.

Her personal favorite is the pink camouflage ones with the NASCAR logo,but the big seller were the Confederate flags.

“It just takes five minutes to make them and I’ve sold about 20 of them,”Rich said.

Get your lanyards!

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A power forward who can grab re-bounds, shoot and run the floor?Check.

A center who can back up DwightHoward? Check.

The Orlando Magic have signedBrandon Bass and re-signed MarcinGortat, but the team isn’t done mak-ing additions. General ManagerOtis Smith said he still wants toround out the roster.

The Magic don’t have much mon-ey to spend. The team used much ofthe $5.854 million mid-level excep-tion to sign Bass, but it can use theremaining money to lure anotherplayer. The biannual exception ofabout $1.9 million was used last yearand isn’t available. So, the Magiclikely will be looking for bargains.Josh Robbins can be reached atjrobbins@orlandosentinel.com.

Orlando Magic

Still lotsof workfor MagicBy Josh RobbinsSENTINEL STAFF WRITER

� A pointguard who canback up JameerNelson andcompete withbackup An-thony Johnsonfor playingtime. The

Magic could go with a youngguy such as Russell Robinson,who played in the D-League lastyear and was on the Magic’ssummer league team last week.Other available free agentsinclude Anthony Carter and

Tyronn Lue.

� Another “big”who can playdefense andgrab reboundsin a reserverole. Smith stillwants to addsome size for

the front court. Guys who are stillunsigned are Jason Collins,Francisco Elson and Theo Ratliff.

� A wingplayer. WithVince Carter,Mickael Pietrusand J.J. Redickunder contract,this is theMagic’s least-pressing prior-

ity. There are a lot of availableguys who fit this description.Matt Barnes and Orlando nativeMarquis Daniels, who are stillunsigned, may be too pricey.The team could bring backJeremy Richardson.

Wish list

Robinson

Collins

Richardson

“I was contacted by one, but I’m notinterested. I love it here. We have a lot ofwork to do. That’s the bottom line.” —Bowling Green coach Urban Meyer, 2002.Six days later, he was coach at Utah.

“All I keep saying is I plan on beingthe coach here at Utah.” — Utah coachUrban Meyer, 2004. Five days later, hewas coach at the University of Florida.

“I’m not going to Notre Dame. Ever.”— UF Coach Ur-ban Meyer, 2009.

So UF CoachUrban Meyer sayshe is never coach-ing at NotreDame. Ever. Noway. Nu-uh. Nev-er. Ever. Not inyour dreams. Notin a billion years.Nope. Not me.

We’ve heardthat one, oh,seemingly a mil-lion times.

The questionisn’t whether ornot we believe himwhen he says it.Coaches lie. It’s in

their job description. They have to pleasetheir players, their recruits and theirfans. It’s a no-win situation.

Rumors will dog coaches. And, let’sface it, they don’t lie every time theyspeak. So there must be a way for themto minimize the impact of speculationand innuendo, right?

Perhaps coaches should take notes. Richard Weiner, a public-relations ex-

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GAINESVILLE — Trinity Prepsoftball pitcher Heather White gother games back.

So did Robert Brown, a ClermontEast Ridge boys basketball star whosaid playing 25 regular-seasongames instead of 20 could make adifference for a team hoping tomake a playoff run next season.

Players, coaches and parents

across the statewere cheeringWednesday after-noon as wordspread that theFlorida HighSchool AthleticAssociation’sboard of directorsbowed to thethreat of a lawsuitand voted 15-0 to rescind the contro-versial scheduling reductions it ap-

proved in April.“Every person I’ve talked to has

been so upset about the cuts,” Whitesaid. “I want to play as much as I canbefore I go to college.”

The cuts, which came under at-tack from gender-equity advocatesand spawned an ongoing court case,would have reduced varsity sched-ules by 20 percent and junior-var-sity and freshman schedules by 40percent for all sports except footballand competitive cheerleading.

Roger Dearing, an EdgewaterHigh and UCF alum in his first yearas the FHSAA’s executive director,asked Wednesday for the board toscrap his first major initiative toavoid a potentially lengthy and cost-ly court battle. Three months ago,Dearing urged the board to approvethe cuts as a uniform statewide so-lution to budget woes that threatenhigh school sports.

“Our recommendation is to re-scind basically because of the poten-tial for litigation,” Dearing said be-fore Wednesday’s vote at FHSAAheadquarters.

Afterward, he added, “We don’tpolice Title IX compliance for ourmember schools. That’s not an issuewe want to be spending time andmoney on.”

The turnaround sends many

FHSAA

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Dearing

� Dec. 10: Meyer told South Florida radiostation 560 WQAM: Notre Dame is “still mydream job. That hasn’t changed. . . . Once mykids are done, maybe someday I’ll go coachthere.”

� Dec. 16: In an emphatic effort to clear theair, Meyer twice said he plans to be inGainesville a “long, long time.”

� May 13: In an interview on the Paul Fine-baum Radio Network, Steve Spurrier saidabout Meyer: “They’ve still got that rumor

going down there, Paul, that if he has aboutone more big year he might be the NotreDame coach.”

� May 15: Meyer tells the Gainesville Sun: “Ididn’t know what [Spurrier] was getting at.Here’s a quote for you — I am not going toNotre Dame. There’s gotta be something elsegoing on in sports. Isn’t there car racinggoing on?”

� July 11: Meyer says at a charity golf tour-nament, “I’m not going to Notre Dame. Ever.”

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Meyer-Notre Dame timeline

“Given the serious safety concerns raised byMr. Mayfield’s participation in NASCARevents, Defendants respectfully request thatthis Court immediately vacate its Order, directPlaintiffs to select a suitable laboratory capa-ble of testing for all three drugs at issue in thiscase, and provide such other and further relief

NASCAR said driver Jeremy Mayfield(right) tested positive a second time for meth-amphetamines and asked a federal judge to re-instate its suspension of Mayfield from racing.

as this Court deems just and proper,” the mo-tion reads.

In a filing submitted Wednesday evening,NASCAR also included an affidavit from May-field’s stepmother, Lisa Mayfield, which al-

NASCAR: Mayfield tested positive againBy Tania GanguliSENTINEL STAFF WRITER

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HOOVER, Ala. — With all duerespect to President Barack Oba-ma, we might be better off withSoutheastern Conference Commis-sioner Mike Slive running thecountry.

Recession?There ain’t no stinking reces-

sion.Not in the SEC.Everywhere you look, you see

corporations struggling and busi-nesses shrinking. And then youshow up at the annual Southeast-ern Conference Football MediaDays and Slive is talking about hisESPN stimulus package and how the SEC is entering a“golden age.”

Hard to believe, isn’t it? The SEC is enjoying its goldenage while everybody else in college sports is entering theirzinc phase. The SEC is like the aristocracy during theFrench Revolution. While the college athletic world out-side the SEC is begging for bread crumbs, Slive might aswell have stood up at the podium Wednesday and told thenearly 900 media members, “Let them eat sod!”

Of course, Slive would never be so brazen. In this down-trodden economy, he has to retain at least a modicum ofhumility just to give a sliver of hope to the huddled massesin the ACC, Big 12 and Big East.

But in all honesty, those leagues — not to mention thepaupers and plebes in the non-BCS conferences — mightas well just give up. There’s no way they can compete with

Sports Daily

Wednesday came and went without a formalannouncement that free-agent forward MattBarnes had signed with the Orlando Magic, butthe two sides still have a deal in principle. Theagreement — for two seasons, including a play-er option for the second season — could befinalized today.

Magic General Manager Otis Smith declinedcomment on Wednesday about Barnes becausethe deal is not official.

The Magic are also looking for a reserve pointguard and backup big man to reach the mini-mum 13-player roster. Despite reports to thecontrary, Smith said the team is not close tofinding a point guard.

“But I’m not in a hurry, either,” Smith said.“We’ll take our time, and we’ll get the rightplayer for us.”

— Tania Ganguli and Josh RobbinsOF THE SENTINEL STAFF

Barnesnot inked,just yet

Hung Ng seeks challenges.The Orlando resident’s psyche

did not sink in Death Valley, Califor-nia, last week when he began the ac-claimed Badwater Ultramarathon.It didn’t soar, either, when hecrossed the finish line at the trail-head on Mount Whitney — 135miles and 33 hours, 45 minutes, 26seconds of (mostly) running, (some)walking and (little) sightseeing lat-er.

Not even injuring his left shinearly in the ultramarathoning’s ver-sion of Mount Everest could deterhim. He finished 19th.

“You get in the moment,’’ Ng (pro-nounced Ing) said. “I heard aboutshooting stars and jets flying over-head, but you are just lookingstraight ahead. You are meditatingalmost. If you start thinking aboutthe past, the future, the finish, youwill get bored.’’

Hung Ng is persuasive.His girlfriend, Heather Griffith,

also runs ultramarathons (any racelonger than the marathon distanceof 26.2 miles) who moved to Orlandoto be with Ng last July. That was onemonth after they met and sixmonths after they began exchang-ing e-mails.

His five-person support crew in-cluded Griffith and four people whowere part of a pace team for the Dis-ney World Marathon in January.They were in a bar when Ng men-tioned he might run in the invita-tion-only Badwater, which beganJuly 13.

They told him they would be hiscrew if he got in.

“About six weeks later, we get ane-mail,’’ said Darris Blackford of Co-lumbus, Ohio.

Said Jeff Horowitz, the author ofMy First 100 Marathons who hasknown Ng since junior high in NewYork: “He just is incredibly easygo-

Ultramarathoner Hung Ng of Orlando is sprayed with cooling water duringthe running of the Badwater Ultramarathon in California’s Death Valley.

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Ultramarathon

Ng races to new challengesBy Stephen RuizSENTINEL STAFF WRITER

A breakdown of Badwater, C3

The Lake Mary girlsbasketball team completeda 33-0 state championshipseason in 1998.

Only one game, though,brought down the house forformer players and re-tired coach CarlBrown: Lake Maryversus Pensacola ina region semifinalat a packed Ramsgym.

It was a rematchof the 1997 state fi-nal, which LakeMary lost. Lake Marywas No. 1 and Pensa-cola No. 2 in the state.The game featured Ten-nessee signee MichelleSnow of Pensacola andFlorida State-bound LaurenBradley of Lake Mary.

“I definitely get excitedthinking about it,” said Brown,who retired from coaching in2008. “That team [Pensacola]could have played mid-major col-lege teams and won.”

Talent ran deep in Lake Mary ath-letics during the 1997-98 school year.Bill Eissele guided the Rams’ girlssoccer program to its second state ti-tle, while Jeannie Fisher coachedLake Mary to its first softball state ti-tle.

Brown, Eissele and Fisher collec-tively have 1,213 victories in 60 sea-sons coaching the Rams.

“When you invest as much as theydid, you’re going to have success,”Bradley said.

Their accomplishments becamethe crowning glory during a sportsseason in which 17 Central Floridateams won state championships.

Hungry for a winLosing the 1997 girls state basket-

ball final was the best thing that hap-pened to Brown and the Rams.

“We came back to school, and that’sall they talked about the whole time,”

Decade-definingH.S. sports years

By Shannon J. OwensSENTINEL STAFF WRITER

PLEASE SEE L. MARY, C5

Mike BianchiSentinelcolumnist

It’s passion that putsSEC above all others

PLEASE SEE BIANCHI, C2

Crowningglory forLake Mary ALL

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HOOVER, Ala. — Urban Meyer will clutch the podium attoday’s Southeastern Conference Media Days as a coachstaring down the ultimate risk-reward season.

With a winnable schedule and the most talent in the coun-try, his Gators could become the fifth SEC team in the last 30years to go undefeated on the way to a title.

If the league finally loses the grace of the Bowl Champi-onship Series and shows the slightest weakness, one Gatorsloss could disrupt Tim Tebow’s relatively effortless ride tothe top of college football.

Aschedule of three non-conference cupcakes, no Alabamaand no Ole Miss doesn’t help Florida’s cause.

The goals are clear. The Gators want no blemishes in theirscorebook.

“[An undefeated season] is something that’s never beendone here,” Tebow said.

In the SEC, everybodywants to go undefeatedBy Jeremy FowlerSENTINEL STAFF WRITER

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The seriesWhile wondering what 2009-10 willbring, the Sentinel’s Varsity staffcontinues a look at some of themost memorable high school sportsyears. We started with a memorablesports year from the 1960s and willwork our way toward the present —a decade at a time. Here is the seriesrundown:

� MONDAY: 1961-62

� TUESDAY: 1976-77

� WEDNESDAY: 1982-83

� TODAY: 1997-98

� FRIDAY: 2006-07

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Western students and their parents might rest easier know-ing officials have a plan in case of an H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, outbreak.

Swine flu, which has shown a preference for infecting young people, was declared a world pandemic on June 11 by the World Health Organization, ac-cording to the organization’s Web site.

There had been 209,438 cases and almost 2,200 deaths from swine flu as of Aug. 23, accord-ing to the Web site.

There have been 24 confirmed cases of swine flu this year in the Barren River District—18 of which were in Warren County, said Teresa Casey, nurse program manager for the communicable disease team at the Barren River District Health Department.

On August 18, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced to the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention that Kentucky’s flu activity level had increased to regional, the second highest level.

Terri Cunningham, marketing coordinator for Health Services, said there haven’t been any cases of swine flu on campus.

Western is currently on the lowest alert level — ongoing preparedness, according to West-ern’s Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Response plan.

Symptoms

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Students will find their dorms packed this year.On-campus housing will be near capacity at

4,950 residents, said Brian Kuster, director of Housing and Residence Life. Increased demand for housing almost left 160 freshmen without beds on campus.

“We will probably open completely full,” Kuster said. “We may even have RAs with roommates.”

It’s common for dorms to be full, but over-crowding usually sorts itself out in the first week because there are always about 50 people who don’t show up, he said.

Demand for housing increased among juniors, seniors and graduate students, who are not re-quired to live on campus. Western also retained more sophomores, who traditionally must live on

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Western alumna Kat Wilson remembers Co-lonial Courts as a community where students felt connected enough to knock on each other’s doors to ask for milk or eggs, a community where students bonded simply because they were neighbors.

Providing international and visiting faculty with more housing close to campus is causing this student community of apartments and cot-tages to dwindle.

Colonial Courts, located on Normal Drive across the street from Southwest Hall, is a group of six cottages and three apartment buildings where many Western students have lived.

Western has been buying up the properties in Colonial Courts for two years. Now only two apartment buildings have student residents living there, according to information collected by Deb-orah Wilkins, chief of staff and general counsel.

The university now owns all of the proper-ties in Colonial Courts after the Board of Re-

gents approved the purchase of the last four cot-tages on July 31.

Residents have fond memories of Colonial Courts.

“It wasn’t the place; it was the people liv-ing there,” said Wilson, who lived in Colonial Courts from 2005 to 2007.

It wasn’t the place; it was the people living there.”

—Kat WilsonFormer Colonial Courts resident

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University to transform Colonial community

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On-campus housing bursting at the seams

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Somerset Senior Emily Fox has lived in an apartment in Colonial Court since January. Fox said one of her favorite memories in Colonial Court is fighting with airsoft guns in the parking lot.

Junior Alyssa Orr, of Stafford, Conn., recently moved into an apartment in Colonial Court. Orr said she is very excited to live close to campus with her boyfriend.

Lexington senior Jackie Gallimore moved into her boyfriend’s apartment in the rear complex of Colonial Court last Novem-ber. This summer they moved into an apartment in the front complex to have more space.

Western students have more op-portunities than before to take their textbooks around the world.

On Wednesday, the Study Abroad Fair teemed with prospects, financial aid options and students wanting to experience life outside of Bowling Green.

Western had about 500 students study abroad last year, said Jerry Barnaby, interim director of Study Abroad and Global Learning. “Once they decide that, there are ways to make it happen.”

Students have been taking ad-vantage of Western faculty-taught programs, affiliate programs and pro-grams offered by the Honors College to study abroad, but this semester, the options have expanded.

“We’re excited for this year,” Barnaby said. “There is a lot of en-ergy from all of the new programs.”

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In 2003, Melissa “Katie” Autry was a student in Richard Bowker’s in-troductory biology class.

Autry, like Bowker’s 100 or so oth-er students, was preparing for finals.

But on the night of May 4, Autry, a Pellville freshman, was raped, sodom-ized and set on fire in her Poland Hall room. Medical officials took Autry to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she died days after her attack.

“I do remember her,” said Bowker, who is now the vice president for re-search and dean of graduate studies. “...I remember viv-idly when this hap-pened, and it was just an absolute hor-ror.”

Six years later, most of the students on campus in 2003 have graduated. And last week, the legal issues surrounding the case ended.

Western officials aren’t appealing a June decision to award Autry’s es-tate $200,000, said Deborah Wilkins, chief of staff and general counsel. That money, the maximum allowed by the Board of Claims, comes out of the state treasury.

In return, Autry’s estate will discharge Western and all other related parties of all liability surrounding the incident, according to the case settlement provided by Wilkins.

In a June entry on the Kentucky Injury Lawyers Blog, Ben Crocker, the attorney for Autry’s estate, is quoted as saying that Western has now been “held accountable for the mistakes it made that led to Katie’s death.”

Crocker said Autry’s family is happier with the state’s decision than with the award itself.

He said Autry’s assailant, Stephen Soules, was able to access her room

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Scottsville sophomore Spenser Claiborne plays The Beatles’ “Octopus’s Garden” on Glasgow sophomore Erin Napier’s Limited Edition The Beat-les: Rock Band. Napier invited friends over to play the game on Wednesday. He picked up his pre-ordered game at Gamestop earlier that day. The total set cost $250.

WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING

The Beatles went out of their way to do new things. So it's no surprise that a Beat-les game doesn't feel at all like the tradi-tional music title. It's special."

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'Come Together'The Beatles: Rock Band spans generation gap

Beatles fans love hard. They wait in long lines, save up to buy collectibles and can recite nearly every word in the band’s catalogue. And they will usually tell you good music is priceless.

For Glasgow sophomore Erin Napi-er, it was easy to drop $250 on The Beatles: Rock Band, a new version of the popular video game featuring 45 of the group’s songs.

The game was released Wednesday.Napier and his roommate, Glasgow

sophomore John Alexander, have been friends since ninth grade. They spent hours Tuesday studying and finishing homework to have free time to play.

“We’ve been anticipating this for a while,” said Napier, who reserved the game months in advance.

Growing up in a musical home, which Alexander calls “Beatlemania,” Napier was exposed to his father’s vinyl collection early.

“It’s a bonding thing between us,” he said. “Me and my father have a weak-ness for buying music, then sitting around talking about it all day.”

The best friends sat in the Bates-Runner Hall lobby waiting for two more friends to come over.

They challenged each other.“I kill the vocals and the bass, and I

can actually play,” Alexander said.“Yeah, you’re pretty good on the real

guitar, but I can beat the shit out of you on Rock Band!” Napier said.

A small white sign hangs over the entrance of their room, boasting the handwritten title, “THE MAN CAVE.” T-shirts and flip-flops are scattered on the floor. The walls are an indistin-guishable sea of posters of everyone from Bob Marley to Pink Floyd. But The Beatles’ influence is heaviest, with multiple photos of the group and John Lennon and copies of remastered al-

bums, released the same day, on the desk.

On their 1967 hit, “With a Little Help From My Friends,” The Beatles sang, “What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?” All four men playing the game said the song was one of their fa-vorites.

Napier’s friend Daniel King, a Scottsville sophomore, sang “Revolu-tion” first. He sang passionately, though sometimes off-key. His friends bobbed and swayed next to him as the clicks of guitar keys and taps on the drums matched the notes blasting from the TV.

Rock Band, a simulation game com-bining guitar, bass, drum and vocals, has become a staple in popular culture since its release in 2007.

“It’s good because it’s cross-gener-ational,” said Tony Harkins, director of Popular Culture Studies. “It allows par-ents and kids to engage and have some-thing in common.”

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From the first mo-ments you fire up The Beatles: Rock Band, it's clear this is a different breed of music game."

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This game delivers one of the most phenom-enal music experiences, outside of hopping into a time machine and watching them perform live, we're likely to see during this phase of our digital age."

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09.18.09 • COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD • Vol. 85, No. 5 • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

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The words penned in the Constitution more than 200 years ago might be dismissed by some as archaic, but the rights those words guarantee extend to present day.

And some Western students are no strangers to the five First Amendment freedoms laid out in the Constitution: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.

Constitution Week is celebrated nationally during the week of Sept. 17 in order to commemorate the date on which the document was signed in 1787.

In honor of Constitution Week, the Herald spoke with five students about exercising their First Amendment freedoms.

Next year, cruising down the highway while texting might per-suade a cop to hand texting-savvy drivers a ticket.

Kentucky legislators will decide early next year if text messaging while driving on the state’s roads and highways should be prohibited.

State representative Jody Rich-ards, D-Bowling Green, sponsored a pre-filed bill that would prohibit drivers from text messaging while driving and enable law enforcement to fine violators of the offense.

Richards said banning text mes-saging is logical to save lives be-cause it decreases a driver’s chance of having a wreck.

“It makes so much sense not to text while you drive,” he said.

The proposal doesn’t bar a driver from talking on a cell phone because drivers can still watch the road then, Richards said.

If the bill is passed into law, of-fenders won’t have to face jail time, but continual violations will include fines, he said.

The proposal is still in the pre-filed stage and can’t become a bill until the session meets in January,

he said. State representative Jim DeC-

esare, R-Rockfield, said the proposal is a serious issue, but legislators need to be careful with the final decision.

DeCesare said legislators need to define what texting is before they pass the bill, so people aren’t pulled over for using their GPS devices.

By PHIL FREEMANnews@chherald.com

Txtng could mean tckt 4 drivrs

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First Amendment still relevant

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A few blaring sound-systems, truck-top dancers and students re-luctant to trade their lawn chairs for stadium seats may have tinted last Saturday’s tailgating a slightly darker shade of disorderly.

After hearing from several people that tailgaters got a little carried away last weekend, President Gary Ransdell sent an e-mail to students Tuesday reit-erating Western’s tailgating policies.

That followed an e-mail Friday afternoon reminding students of tailgating rules.

Ransdell said excessive alcohol consumption resulted in a rowdier tailgating crowd than usual.

“Tailgating doesn’t mean getting drunk,” Ransdell said. “Some people are correlating those two things.”

Police arrested some people who may have made that false connec-tion. Three people were arrested Saturday and charged with alco-hol intoxication in a public place, campus police reported. Four oth-ers were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for fighting near Houchens-Smith Stadium.

Howard Bailey, vice president for student affairs, said Saturday’s tailgating events were not the wild-est he’s seen, but he did have a hard time getting students to leave tail-gating areas and attend the game.

By MANDY SIMPSONdiversions@chherald.com

Tailgaters told to tone it down

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Tailgating updateThe Tailgating Committee met Thursday, and an e-mail to Greek leaders followed.In the e-mail, Gary Wiser, coordi-nator of student activities, said:■ Large sound systems won’t be allowed in tailgating areas. Organizations and/or sponsors working with Athletics can bring sound equipment. ■ Tailgating areas will close 30 minutes before games start instead of 20 minutes. ■ Dogs, hard liquor and glass bottles aren’t allowed in tail-gating areas.