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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® WKU Archives Records WKU Archives 2-1-2013 UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 30 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. 88, No. 30" (2013). WKU Archives Records. Paper 6562. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/6562 This Other 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]. PHOTO NEWS SPORTS CHECK OUT THE TWO ACADEMIC LADY TOPPERS PHOTOS OF THE COMPLEXES COME BACK IN WEEK ON OPEN STRIDE WKUHERALD.com PAGE 5 PAGE 8 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013 • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY • WKUHERALD.COM • VOLUME 88 NO. 30 Accreditation MUSICAL CHAIRS ushers in new era for Health Services CHRISTIAN MARNON [email protected] Only 5 percent of college health fa- cilities nationwide have been accred- ited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, and WKU Health Services has joined their ranks. As of Nov. 8, 2012, Health Servic- es achieved accreditation from the AAAHC, marking the end of a three- year application process, and on Tuesday they threw a reception to cel- ebrate. The AAAHC is an organization which develops standards and offers volun- tary surveys for outpatient health care facilities. The survey AAAHC provides is a comprehensive checklist which ensures facilities are maintaining high standards. At the recep- tion, Vicky Rosa, executive director of Health Services, ANN MEAD said she keeps the Finance and AAAHC survey Administration VP in a large binder on her bookshelf, which contains over 100 pages of re- quirements. “The binder is representative of how hard we have worked for accredita- tion,” Rosa said. Lab Manager Monisa Wright said her contribution required a thorough un- Choir Professor Jonathan Palant leads students in singing exercises during choir practice in the Music Rehearsal Hall on Wednesday, derstanding of the AAAHC standards. Jan. 30. CHRISTIAN RANDOLPH/HERALD “I had to have a working knowledge of everything,” she said. “During the New choir director splits time between WKU, Dallas summer, each staff member had to present their assigned chapter of the KRISTINA BURTON survey to everyone else.” During his time here at WKU, The AAAHC Accreditation Hand- [email protected] he will be leading Men’s Cho- book requires the applicant to be rus, Chorale, Choral Society compliant in eight standards, some of Some professors commute and teaching a course on choral which include quality management from Chestnut Street, others methods. and improvement, facilities and envi- from Hardin County, while Jon- Palant said Hondorp called ronment, patient rights, government athan Palant commutes more him this past summer to ask and administration. than 700 miles every week — if he’d be available to cover his Rosa is proud to have met these twice a week. position. Then the rescheduling standards, but said there is still much The new faculty member, and negotiations started. work to be done. who fl ies back and forth from “I had another community “The accreditation process resets ev- Dallas, is currently the Visiting chorus and church position ery three years and new standards are Palant is acting as the visiting professor of music Professor of Music/Director of here in Dallas that I was not added annually,” she said. “Starting and director of Choral Activities for this semes- Choral Activities while Dr. Paul willing to give up,” Palant said. ter while commuting from Dallas each week. Hondorp is away on sabbatical. SEE CHOIR PAGE 2 SEE HEALTH PAGE 2 CHRISTIAN RANDOLPH/HERALD Student fi lmmaker creates four-minute short TAYLOR HARRISON & ton, S.C., wrote and directed the writing. When he felt like he had ANNA ANDERSON four-minute short fi lm with one reached a stopping point with [email protected] character trying to leave a voice- both of these majors, Ward said mail for a girl he likes. he applied to create his own ma- While some WKU students “I wanted to do something re- jor within the Honors College. He were spending the weekend af- ally simple and relatable,” Ward designed his own curriculum, ter last semester’s fi nal exams said. and named his major “Storytell- recovering or blowing off steam, Ever since he was in middle ing Traditions in Cinema, Litera- junior Dillon Ward was holed up school, Ward said he wanted to ture and New Media.” in a friend’s apartment fi lming make fi lms. Outside of WKU, Ward said he his latest piece, “Paris, Kentucky.” At WKU, Ward said he fi rst tried attended classes at Maine Media Portrait of Murray junior Dillon Ward on Wednesday. Ward SEE FILM The 21-year-old from Charles- photojournalism and creative PAGE 2 recently made a short fi lm called “Paris, Kentucky.” ADAM WOLFFBRANDT/HERALD WKUHERALD.com O IS FOR THE REMOTE: TRACK AND FIELD OPPORTUNITY A 30 ROCK THE TEAM IS HEAD- ONLINE GALLERY ING TO THE MIDDLE LEARN MORE ABOUT HEAD TO THE HERALD RETROSPECTIVE TENNESSEE STATE THE GLUTEN-FREE WEBSITE TO LOOK AT A AN AVID FAN SAYS INVITATIONAL THIS FEATURE ON THE FLU LIFEESTYLE PAGE 3 GOODBYE SATURDAY VACCINE AT WKU PAGE 4 PAGE 7 FRI 29°/23° SAT 41°/32° SUN 45°/26° MON 50°/40° PAGE 2 FEBRUARY 1, 2013 • COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD • WKUHERALD.COM FILM concept of the script. “So we were like, how do we CONTINUED FROM FRONT create something that’s still powerful and still has good Swordplay content — a good story — Workshops and worked on the but without having to use too sets of “21 Jump Street” and many resources that we don’t “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire have?” Benito, the cinematog- Hunter” in New Orleans dur- rapher for the fi lm, said. ing the summer of 2011. Benito said he and Ward Last summer, Ward was an were both really happy with assistant/intern at Scott Rudin the end result of the fi lm. Productions. “It’s clean and it’s simple... Planning for “Paris, Ken- but we still think it has a lot of tucky” started in October, content to it,” he said. when Ward started thinking of While Benito said he was ideas and recruiting people to in charge of the visuals, Ward be a part of the project. Enter wrote most of the script, but Alejandro Benito, Cory Hardin they bounced ideas off of each and Chris Callahan. other. Callahan, a theatre major Ward and his crew spent from Franklin, Tenn., is the about 60 dollars on the fi lm, only person seen on camera. but they didn’t see it as a prob- Ward met Callahan through a lem. mutual friend. “We saw it as a challenge,” “We just immediately clicked Ward said. and started getting along,” Benito said that Ward has Callahan said. done most of the promoting He said most of his experi- of the fi lm. ence is in live theater, but he Ward said he plans to enter is eager to start doing more “Paris, Kentucky” into several fi lms. Knoxville, Tenn. junior Zach Tapp practices throwing the saber for winter guard team Lexis based “He was able to stick to the fi lm festivals, including the student sections of the Nash- out of Lexington. Tapp has been involved with guard for more than 10 years and has also been script and make it feel real,” involved with the Spirit of Atlanta drum corps. KATIE MCLEAN/HERALD Ward said about Callahan’s ville Film Festival, Kentucky performance. Independent Film Festival As far as how the fi lm looked and the New Hope Film Fes- and felt to the audience, tival. Benito, a WKU alumnus from After he graduates, Ward Houston and Ward worked to said he wants to devote his like to build and own a pro- willing to forgo a comfortable “I want to use my youth as match the camerawork and time to making his own fi lms. duction company somewhere job in order to create his own much as possible and take lighting with the simplistic Ultimately, he said he would in the South, but right now he’s stories. those risks,” Ward said. SGA strives to keep the bar high with plans for the spring semester SARAH STUKENBORG the Campus Safety Walk, Cam- dents,” Boka said. and local decision-makers there and clean up, rather than [email protected] pus Cleanup and the value- Lewisport sophomore Cain were invited by SGA to dine employees,” Alvey said. added grading system resolu- Alvey, the administrative vice with students and attend a SGA has so far been happy The Student Government tion. president, spoke about past Hilltopper“ basketball game af- with the “the purple line,” and Association is making plans The value-added grading successful events SGA hosted. terward last December. it will continue running this for the spring semester for system is the idea of includ- Alvey said other services semester. teaching evaluations and a ing pluses or minuses in the provided by SGA such as In the upcoming weeks, the value-added grading system I think it's something resolution, while continuing standard grades. Safe Rides, which is known idea of student teacher evalu- The resolution that would we've needed for a as “the purple line,” and ations will be voted on in SGA. initiatives like the safe rides long time. program. support the value-added Campus Cleanup yielded The Campus Safety Walk, Smithland senior Cory grading system got its fi rst great results as well.