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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® WKU Archives Records WKU Archives 10-10-2013 UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 13 WKU Student Affairs Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records Part of the African American Studies Commons, Higher Education Administration Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Mass Communication Commons, and the Sports Studies Commons Recommended Citation WKU Student Affairs, "UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 13" (2013). WKU Archives Records. Paper 6363. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/6363 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LIFE SPORTS Shenanigans raises Basketball team record amount has first practice PAGE B1 PAGE B6 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013 • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY • WKUHERALD.COM • VOLUME 89 NO. 13 AT&T service KEEP MARCHING ON rerouted as repairs are made BY MICHAEL MCKAY [email protected] Yesterday's cellular outage for AT&T customers caused WKU a lot of grief. One tweet, from @Whatsthe_ Mata said "Hi @ATT all of Kentucky, specifi cally 42101, doesn't have service so FYI the students of WKU hate u rn (sic.) ok fi x it." That tweet received a response from the offi cial AT&T twitter ac- count, which asked for her patience as they worked to investigate the is- sue. Bob Owen, vice president for In- formation Technology, sent out emails throughout the day about his conversations with AT&T repre- sentatives. In an email sent to faculty and staff, Owen said it was reported to him that 15 cell towers that ran from the Bowling Green area down to northern Nashville weren't work- ing. Representatives told Owen that service would be restored on Friday. Service was brought back up at 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday. Owen said later Tuesday that he Bowling Green senior Tanner Hall runs down University Boulevard while working out with WKU's ROTC Battalion at the was glad the information AT&T Diddle Auxiliary Gym on Oct. 8. Despite the government shutdown, the cadets continued to train on their regular schedule, gave him was incorrect and that as very few ROTC employees at WKU were furloughed. "It aff ects us a little," Cadre Chris Bradley said. "But we'll overcome it." SHELBY MACK/HERALD service came back sooner. "This is one time that I'm glad that the information that they gave me originally was wrong," Owen WKU functioning despite government shutdown said. Cathy Lewandowski, senior PR BY KAELY HOLLOWAY down experienced in 17 years. year, which runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. manager of Corporate Communi- AND JACOB PARKER According to the Constitution, 30, led to the shutdown. This will cations for AT&T Tenessee/Ken- [email protected] Congress is not allowed to spend not end until an agreement can be tucky, said in an email Wednesday money unless a spending bill is agreed reached, and the president signs an morning that wireless service had As of Oct. 1, the United States gov- upon by both chambers. The House, approved spending bill. been restored to the Western Ken- ernment entered a shutdown. With controlled by Republicans, passed WKU has not been immune to the tucky area. government offi ces closed, websites a spending bill that included steady effects of the shutdown, with various Lewandoski blamed the inter- offl ine and government employees spending levels for the fi scal year, but departments left unable to complete ruption of service on a severed jobless and without pay, effects have did not allow funding for the Afford- research because of insuffi cient fed- cable. trickled down to state universities. able Care Act, or Obamacare. eral resources. "Technicians rerouted wireless A dispute on a spending bill be- Upon reaching the Senate, how- In an email sent out the same day traffi c and service is currently run- tween the House of Representatives ever, the bill was killed and sent back as the shutdown, Gordon Baylis, vice ning normally," she said. "We know and the Senate caused the govern- to the House. This disagreement, met president of research, said the univer- customers count on their wireless services, and we apologize for this ment to be sent into the fi rst shut- with a close to the end of their fi scal SEE SHUTDOWN PAGE A2 inconvenience." Group looks to help former incarcerated persons get on their feet BY QUICHE MATCHEN King created a work group called Louisville [email protected] "Think Tank" that brainstorms ways to senior Amanda give back to society. It was from Think Shaw talks Incarceration rates are steadily in- Tank that idea of We Stay Free was born. with an inmate creasing in America, but a new WKU Maysville junior Whitney Allen is the during their organization is hoping to erase the nega- president of WKU’s We Stay Free, and weekly victi- tive stigma that is associated with those said the organization came out of the mology class who were once incarcerated. experiences at the prison. at the DeBerry The regional group, We Stay Free, “They spend time with inmates there Special Needs has its origins at a maximum security and talk about resources, how to re- Prison in prison in the Lois M. DeBerry Special enter into society and with that came Nashville on Needs Facility in Nashville. Sociology the chapter,” Allen said. “We’re still able Thursday, Dec. professor Kate King teaches a class at to help them here on campus, anybody 2, 2011. LUKE the prison as part of the “Inside Out” that’s recently gotten out of prison or SHARRETT/ program, where students and incar- jail, to help them be an active citizen.” HERALD cerated persons take classes together Allen said one of the organization's within a prison setting. SEE FREE PAGE A2 BUDGET BUZZFEED CARTOONIST WKUHERALD.com THU 77°/46° SGA FINALIZES WKU ALUM WORK- COURIER-JOURNAL BUDGET AT ING AT BUZZFEED CARTOONIST TO WKUHERALD FRI 77°/48° $125,000 AS LGBT EDITOR SPEAK TONIGHT AT UNDERGROUND PAGE A3 PAGE B1 BARNES & NOBLE PAGE B4 VISIT WKUHERALD. SAT 79°/54° COM TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE ANTHOLOGIES SUN 79°/55° PERFORMING PAGE A2 OCTOBER 10, 2013 • COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD • WKUHERALD.COM Stock ticker to give Grise Hall a ‘business school feel’ BY JACKSON FRENCH information for students and in to replace a smaller one on [email protected] current events,” she said. the third fl oor that is no lon- Trawick said the instal- ger in use. Students traveling through lation process is supposed He said the information Grise Hall will be able to stay to begin next week and is displayed on the stock ticker up to date with the latest stock scheduled to be completed comes from a company called information by the end of the by Oct. 26. Telemet Orion on a subscrip- month. “We wanted to renovate tion basis, adding that he be- Michelle Trawick, associate Grise Hall and give it more of lieves the larger stock ticker dean for faculty and admin- a business school feel and a will be more sustainable. istration in the Gordon Ford stock ticker is representative of “For a ticker that small, it’s College of Business, said a business,” Trawick said. very expensive,” he said. “It’s stock ticker will be installed She also said she wants the the same subscription you on the fi rst fl oor of the build- ticker to stimulate conversa- would have with the forty-foot- ing and have a 40-foot display. tion among business students, er that they’re putting down- The ticker will cost around but she does not expect it to be stairs.” $58,000, which come from pri- widely used for classes. Brown also said the ticker vate donors, Trawick said. “It certainly, we hope, will is being installed to give the General contractors Greg Phelps, Lucas Manning and Ryan West inspect Grise Hall's fi rst fl oor ceiling and prepare to install a stock “We placed this at the far side contribute to conversation school a more business-like ticker, a running report that projects the prices and trading pat- of the lobby where you would within classes, but I’m not sure feel that will help draw new terns of the various stock exchanges. JEFF BROWN/HERALD enter the stairwell to go up to I can say it will be used for spe- business students and profes- the rest of the college of busi- cifi c assignments,” she said. sors to WKU. ness,” she said. Trawick said classes would “I think if you look at busi- Grise Hall “look and feel more that know they’re majoring She said the display will also not need to directly use the ness colleges around the coun- like a college of business as in business, but don’t know include three other screens stock ticker because the infor- try, you’ll see that a lot of them opposed to a general teaching where they’re going yet, it’s nice placed below the ticker. mation it displays will also be have new buildings,” he said. building” might give WKU a to be able to show them some “We’re also installing three available on the Internet. “We want to attract quality fac- competitive edge in attracting updated technology and give large television displays where Chris Brown, chair of the ulty and quality students to our prospective students. them more of a feel that they’re we will be able to have an- fi nance department, said the university and our major.” “As you compete to get stu- in a college of business,” he nouncements for the college, new ticker is being brought Brown said he thinks making dents from other universities said.

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