EDITORIAL: WKU'S SEXUAL HEALTH POLICIES NEED IMPROVEMENT
WKU SUFFERS 59-10 BAYOU BEATDOWN
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 > WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY > VOLUME 90, ISSUE 19
Enrollment discussed at Regents meeting
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BY KAE HOLLOWAY NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM After much anticipation, enrollment numbers for the fall semester were released last Friday. Brian Meredith, chief enrollment officer, brought the official statistics from the fall census to the Board of Regents meeting Friday, Oct. 31. Enrollment stands at 20,178 students this semester â a drop of 278 students from last fallâs enrollment of 20,456 students. âUndergraduate enrollment is flat with just a .3 percent difference, or 58 students, graduate is lagging just a little bit there and can pick up and weâre working on that,â Meredith said. Undergraduate enrollment dropped from 17,517 last fall to 17,459 this fall. Graduate enrollment dropped from 2,939 last fall to 2,179 this fall, a difference of 7.5 percent, or 220 students.
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Minton hall flood damages elevator
REMEMBERED Friends, family reflect on student's life
BY LASHANA HARNEY
NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM The recent flooding of Minton Hall due to a pipe burst has left residents with one working elevator. Brian Kuster, executive director of Housing and Residence Life, said that the water damaged the elevator car electrical equipment. The damaged elevator has been out of order since Saturday, Oct. 18. Kuster said HRL is currently working with KONE Elevators to get the elevator back in service. âTheir estimate to replace the damaged components is over $32,000,â Kuster said. Kuster said the WKU Student Life Foundation will pay for the repairs. Kuster said HRL issued a purchase order for the parts on Oct. 24. Kuster estimated that the elevator should be repaired within the coming weeks. âOnce the parts arrive they will immediately begin the repair,â he said. Louisville freshman Madigan Dial said having one working elevator
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an English said he and his son, Tyler, had the kind of relationship most fathers and sons donât get to have. âWe were best friends,â Dan said. Tyler, who was a sophomore from Louisville, died in a house fire on Oct. 31. Dan said it really hit him at Tylerâs viewing on Sunday how much his son had meant to so many people when more than 1,000 people came. âIt amazes me how many friends there were that loved him,â he said. So many people said that Tyler had been an inspiration to them, and Dan said that was the nicest thing anyone could say because it showed âthe influence and the love that he had and people had for him.â Dan said Tyler loved football. He had planned to play football for WKU, but a car accident in the summer of 2012 kept him in the hospital for two or three months, and rehab took a year. He was unable to play, but he joined the recruiting staff for the football team. Dan said Tyler âabsolutely cherishedâ getting to be a part of the team, despite being unable to play. When Tyler was being recruited in high school to play college football, he and Dan would take road trips to visit different collegesâ football camps. On one trip, they drove to the University of Notre Dame and Ohio State University. But instead of going home, Tyler said he SEE ENGLISH PAGE A2
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Cancer survivors share stories, remember loved ones
BY AARON MUDD
NEWS@WKUHERALD.COM Candles burned in the stands of Smith Stadium Saturday night forming a giant glowing hand that signed âI love youâ in American sign language. About 300 Relay for Life participants lapped around the field carrying glow-sticks while the song âIn Christ Aloneâ by Passion echoed in the stadium. The ceremony honored Crestwood senior Luke Sparksâ father and others impacted by cancer. David Sparks has stage 4 kidney cancer and was recently told by a
doctor that he has weeks to live. Mt. Washington senior MeriCatherine Small, chapter president of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, spoke about the Sparks family and how the âI love youâ hand sign reminds them of heaven. âItâs something thatâs very meaningful to the Sparks family and to everyone thatâs really close with them,â Small said. Participants from 28 teams gathered for a night of cornhole and hula-hoop contests to sell waffles, hot chocolate and other treats to raise money for cancer research. Goshen sophomore Tony Pied-
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Participants in the 2014 Relay for Life event listen during the Luminaria Ceremony, honoring those who have fought or are currently fighting cancer. Lit luminaries in the bleachers formed the hand sign for "I love you" in honor of the Sparks family.