Students celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month at La Fiesta, the first of a series of campus events celebrating the historical month, on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Many activities were available for students to enjoy such as making Mexican arts and crafts, games, visiting vendor and cul- tural booths by Spanish Club and Latinos Unidos, answering trivia on Latin American countries, capitals, scholars, and poets for prizes, learning salsa and meren- gue dances taught by DJ Gomez, an Alumni student, and eating food from the local Hispanic fu- sion restaurant El Meson. The Asian/Hispanic/Native American (AHNA) Center is re- Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations kick off with La Fiesta Zara Qureshi Features Writer [email protected]sponsible for the planning of many cultural events at WSU, in- cluding those for Hispanic Heri- tage Month. AHNA Center Direc- tor Mai Nguyen talked about why she thinks cultural events like these are important. “Colleges and universities are some of the most diverse places,” Nguyen said. “You have the op- portunity to meet people from many various cultures, but some- times there is a barrier because not everyone has had exposure to people of different backgrounds, so events like these give us an opportunity to really bridge that gap and bring people together by sharing the beautiful cultures of every group that enrich our na- tion.” Alex Rodriguez, a student who was on the planning commit- tee for the event, also expressed that celebrating cultural months like Hispanic Heritage Month is important because it allows stu- dents to learn about cultures dif- ferent from their own. “I believe it is critical for stu- dents to learn more about other cultures, and some students won’t go out of their way to learn about them,” Rodriguez said. “So it is important for events like these to attract the students into educating themselves and mak- ing connections with other stu- dents outside of their circles.” La Fiesta is held every year in the Quad and students have espe- cially enjoyed the festivities host- ed by DJ Gomez, said Nguyen, so it was made sure that music and dance lessons were brought to this year’s event, but with a few changes. “We decided to not just play Latino music this year, but music from other cultures too, such as Arabic music, because some of the students last year also want- ed to hear music from their own cultures so that they could share their own dances, but we did not have it,” Nguyen said. “It’s just about that opportunity of shar- ing culture. Music is so universal. It brings people together.” Dorothy Alvarez, senior lec- turer of Spanish, who was also involved in the planning of the events, expressed what she hopes students took from the event. “I hope for WSU students to learn about the Hispanic cul- ture,” Alvarez said. “And about its people who have positively influ- enced and enriched the United States and society in multiple fields, like science, art, politics, sports, music, food, culture and the economy.” National Hispanic Heritage Month is officially celebrated from September 15 to October 15 and marks the independence days of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras and Chile. Upcoming campus events include the show- ing of the documentary film “La Camioneta” on Sept. 17 and a La- tino college student self-efficacy lecture on Sept. 25. THEGUARDIANONLINE.COM Issue No. 30 Vol. 50 La Fiesta activities during Hispanic Heritage Month Photo by Lindsey Roberts SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 ISSUE NO.3 VOL. 51 WWW.THEGUARDIANONLINE.COM “...events like these give us an opportunity to really bridge that gap and bring people together by sharing the beautiful cultures of every group that enrich our nation.”
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Students celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month at La Fiesta, the first of a series of campus events celebrating the historical month, on Tuesday, Sept. 9.
Many activities were available for students to enjoy such as making Mexican arts and crafts, games, visiting vendor and cul-tural booths by Spanish Club and Latinos Unidos, answering trivia on Latin American countries, capitals, scholars, and poets for prizes, learning salsa and meren-gue dances taught by DJ Gomez, an Alumni student, and eating food from the local Hispanic fu-sion restaurant El Meson.
The Asian/Hispanic/Native American (AHNA) Center is re-
Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations kick off with La FiestaZara QureshiFeatures [email protected]
sponsible for the planning of many cultural events at WSU, in-cluding those for Hispanic Heri-tage Month. AHNA Center Direc-tor Mai Nguyen talked about why she thinks cultural events like these are important.
“Colleges and universities are some of the most diverse places,” Nguyen said. “You have the op-portunity to meet people from many various cultures, but some-times there is a barrier because not everyone has had exposure to people of different backgrounds, so events like these give us an opportunity to really bridge that gap and bring people together by sharing the beautiful cultures of every group that enrich our na-tion.”
Alex Rodriguez, a student who was on the planning commit-tee for the event, also expressed
that celebrating cultural months like Hispanic Heritage Month is important because it allows stu-dents to learn about cultures dif-ferent from their own.
“I believe it is critical for stu-dents to learn more about other cultures, and some students won’t go out of their way to learn about them,” Rodriguez said. “So it is important for events like these to attract the students into educating themselves and mak-ing connections with other stu-dents outside of their circles.”
La Fiesta is held every year in the Quad and students have espe-cially enjoyed the festivities host-ed by DJ Gomez, said Nguyen, so it was made sure that music and dance lessons were brought to this year’s event, but with a few changes.
“We decided to not just play
Latino music this year, but music from other cultures too, such as Arabic music, because some of the students last year also want-ed to hear music from their own cultures so that they could share their own dances, but we did not have it,” Nguyen said. “It’s just about that opportunity of shar-
ing culture. Music is so universal. It brings people together.”
Dorothy Alvarez, senior lec-turer of Spanish, who was also
involved in the planning of the events, expressed what she hopes students took from the event.
“I hope for WSU students to learn about the Hispanic cul-ture,” Alvarez said. “And about its people who have positively influ-enced and enriched the United States and society in multiple fields, like science, art, politics, sports, music, food, culture and the economy.”
National Hispanic Heritage Month is officially celebrated from September 15 to October 15 and marks the independence days of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras and Chile. Upcoming campus events include the show-ing of the documentary film “La Camioneta” on Sept. 17 and a La-tino college student self-efficacy lecture on Sept. 25.
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Engineering (EGR) 1010, a course aimed at increasing stu-dent retention in math will re-turn for students’ benefit this academic year.
Dean of the college of engi-neering and computer science Nathan Klingbeil explains that math is a problem that needs to be addressed for many engi-neering students.
“The course addresses the general problem for engineers in this country of retention in
engineering, as nationwide only 1 in 3 students who want to pursue an engineering degree ever actually earns a degree,” Klingbeil said.
Longitudinal studies in stu-dent success have shown high graduation rates in several im-portant categories for students who have taken EGR 1010. Stu-dents who take the class gradu-ate at more than double the rate of those in the traditional cur-riculum.
Women and minority student success rates went from 20 per-cent to 60 percent. Students who take the class earn WSU
degrees at a rate of over 70 per-cent.
The course introduces engi-neering students to math that would be significant for in the first couple of years within the engineering program.
According to Klingbeil, the average student isn’t ready to begin calculus, the first course, when they begin their curricu-lum, according to Klingbeil.
Student perception data funded by the National Science Foundation revealed that en-gineering students found that the course contributed to their motivation and success. It also
improves the perceived chance of success.
Engineering student Nicho-las Tarnowieckyi believes the course is beneficial because it puts everyone on the same page, regardless of what their high school teachers may have taught them.
“I think that even top students should take it because it shows everyone true skill and... there is so much help at Wright State for basic classes,” Tarnowieckyi said.
For many students, the course can gauge whether engineering is the program for them, accord-
ing to Klingbeil.“Math is the common lan-
guage of engineering and we apply it across all disciplines,” Klingbeil said. “Students are getting a window into what the engineering curriculum is really about. If they decide that none of that appeals to them, then that’s a really good reason to switch their major.”
Department of Modern Languages to add Chinese minor
The Department of Modern Languages is adding a Chinese language minor.
Students who want to be ad-mitted to the minor must be ad-mitted to a major subject, have a GPA of 2.5 or better, and have achieved a cumulative average of 3.0 or better in nine or more hours of Chinese courses.
said they are in the process of having the minor approved, and expects it to be available to students in Spring 2015. Broad-stock said she highly recom-mends the minor to students.
“If you complete the minor, you will really secure your job and put your resume on top,” Broadstock said.
Broadstock also said the Chi-nese minor will consist of 21 credit hours beyond the 1020 level of Chinese. Chinese Con-versation, Business Chinese,
Multimedia Chinese and Chi-nese Composition are among the courses that can be taken to earn a minor in Chinese.
International Studies major Sarah Gilbert said she plans to complete the minor in Chinese.
“I’m already halfway there, so I will definitely take it if it’s of-fered before I graduate,” Gilbert said.
Kristin Sobolik, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said she is looking forward to the addi-tion of the minor.
“We live in an increasingly global society and the most im-portant thing that we all need to do is communicate better,” So-bolik said. “Understanding more than one language leads to better communication and success in whatever field you are in, so I see a second language as being cru-cial to student success in today’s world.”
Sobolik said additional fac-ulty and resource support has been added to increase course offerings in Chinese and Arabic
through year four, as well as to strengthen and diversify course offerings in other languages.
“I see a second language as being crucial to student success in today’s world.”
“A minor in Chinese gives peo-ple the chance to speak another language, and that is something that opens up many doors,” Gil-bert said.
In my high school years, I was a tweezing fiend. I had a serious problem, a borderline addic-tion to shaping my eyebrows. If there was a single hair out of place, I would rip it from its root. Every morning would be a routine of tedious tweezing, resulting in tremendous dis-comfort and burning redness around my eyes. I hated every minute I spent in front of my mirror plucking away. In fact, I dreaded this routine.
But damn it, I just couldn’t resist! Everyone else had these perfectly thin, perfectly shaped eyebrows. Compared to them I was Bert from Sesame Street. So, I just kept weed whacking away at my stray hairs. The result of this fastidious groom-ing habit was me looking less like Bert and more like Captain Spock. I’m not hating on Spock, by the way. He’s a beautiful Vul-can being. But I am not a Vul-can, unfortunately, so I looked a tad…off.
Recently I’ve checked into tweezing rehab. I’ve gone cold
turkey for the past few months, only doing some slight shaping above and below my eyebrows just to keep it neat. And I am pleased to say that I am experi-encing regrowth from my pre-cious little hairs. My eyebrows now look normal, thick, healthy. There is a normal amount of space between my two full brows. I am nearly entirely re-covered from the great Spock incident of 2011.
Dear Mandy, My girlfriend is jealous of my friends that are girls. I try to explain to her that they are only my friends! She saw me studying with two girls and another boy in the library and she thought we were having a double date study session. I don’t know what to do, I love her so much! Concerned Boyfriend
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Dear Concerned Boyfriend, Her insecurities might come across as stifling and overbearing, but never forget that her feelings are real. Maybe something happened with a past boy-friend and his female friends that caused her to lose trust! So firstly, don’t discount her insecurity, and secondly, learn to deal with it in the correct manner. You said you love her, so you’ll do anything for her, right? Obviously that doesn’t mean giving up your friends—HECK NO—but that means letting her know when you’re hanging out with other females, clearly communicating that it is just a study party and that she is very welcome to come along. When you’re in a group setting with other females, make her feel like you’re hers and nobody else’s. That will go a long way. If she knows completely how you feel about her, you won’t need to worry. This all boils down to one thing: Never assume your girlfriend knows how much you love her. You’ve gotta tell her. A lot. But don’t worry—it will pay off! Love, Mandy
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It took me 21 years to be able to legally go to a bar and buy a pint of beer. And on that day I wanted to toss my shiny new state I.D. at the bartender shouting, “I served my nickel!” with startling ferocity. But I, unfortunately, didn’t. At least not that I’m aware of.
Recently there has been talk, sparked from who knows what, that there should be a change in the drinking age. There are arguments for low-ering it and arguments for tacking on a few extra years. Both of which seem to be at-tempting to beat away under-age consumption with a stick.
Both sides have decent rea-sons why a change in the legal age of alcohol consumption could lead to less underage drinking. It’s dangerous, ev-
Naturally raising the drink-ing age would be the most logi-cal way to reduce the frequency of underage drinking on and around college campuses. This outcome would be achieved be-cause, obviously, there would be a significant drop in the amount of students who could legally purchase alcohol. Cue the col-lective sharp inhale.
There is also the argument that lowering the drinking age could reduce underage drink-ing. Now, before you drop this paper because of this “duh” mo-ment, hear me out. If the drink-ing age was lowered to, say, 19, those who are currently 19 or 20 would be able to go out and buy a beer at the local watering hole. Understandably at first mass chaos would ensue, not to mention all the revenue lost from the now useless “Finally
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to hear me out. I’m not going to say that I have experienced this first hand, let’s just say that I have witnessed my fair share of 21st birthday celebrations, and from those experiences I can say that the novelty of be-ing able to drink in public wears off quickly. Usually right around ten o’clock the following morn-ing.
We all know that forbidden fruit is by far the sweetest. May-be there is a certain validity to just make the sweet fruity nec-tar of the gods just a little less forbidden in order to just plain old make us bored.
There will always be the cries of those who are under 21 beg-ging to be included. To them I have that same urge that I had when I turned 21. I served my nickel, now I’m going to proceed to throw things at you from my high horse.
I guess what I’m trying to say is everyone should em-brace their brows. Accept that not all faces are meant to have pencil-thin brows. After all, you can only take so much hair away before you’re left with practically nothing. So my advice to readers is this: put down those tweezers before it’s too late! Follow my caution-ary tale and embrace the fluff.
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Coordinated by We Serve U, a program devoted to encourag-ing Wright State staff to engage in community service oppor-tunities, the WSU Friendship Food Pantry is taking part in the Feed Ohio campaign, a statewide volunteer effort to provide food to local food pan-tries.
Locations on campus ac-cepting donations include the Student Union, Dunbar Library and Millett Hall. Items needed include cereals, fruit juice, toi-let paper and more.
Joining many other local and statewide organizations, We Serve U has coordinated the food drive to take place on campus from September 2 through 13.
Over two million Ohioans suffer from hunger, but Jesse Gifford, coordinator for the program at Wright State, hopes to combat these devastating statistics by raising awareness and participating in the food drive.
“I think the Feed Ohio cam-paign is important because it helps bring attention to the fact that there are a large number of Ohioans that don’t always know where they’ll get their
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next meal. These people rely on help from local pantries and food banks,” Gifford said.
Joanie Hendricks, We Serve U co-chair, described how Wright State got involved in the Feed Ohio campaign.
“We Serve U learned about the Feed Ohio program and wanted to help. We chose to kick off the school year with this collection by supporting the Friendship Food Pantry. They provide emergency food and referrals to our students in need,” Hendricks said.
Governor John Kasich is also an advocate of the Feed Ohio campaign.
“Gov. and Mrs. Kasich are great supporters of the Feed Ohio campaign,” said Hen-dricks. “As part of this effort, Gov. Kasich has issued a proc-lamation to raise the aware-ness of the citizens of Ohio regarding the fight against hunger.”
This is the second year of the Feed Ohio campaign. Last year, the Dayton area contrib-uted 7,692 lbs. of food during Feed Ohio.
For a full list of donation ar-eas and items sought for dona-tion, visit the We Serve U web-site at http://www.wright.edu/weserveu/.
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New Wright State Board of Trustees members were ap-pointed over the summer as a voice for the university.
The student trustees include Junior Haley Billing, who will serve a two year term along-side Ryan Rushing, the current two year term student member whose term ends next year. Dr. Doug Fecher, 58, serves for 8 years until June 30, 2023. Both positions are unpaid.
Dr. Robert Sweeney, Executive Vice President and Secretary of the Board, said that “We want someone with passion and un-derstanding of higher educa-tion, someone who appreciates
Governor appoints new board members at Wright State Sarah OlsenContributing [email protected]
who Wright State is as an in-stitution and time to devote to overseeing the university.”
The appointed trustees are expected to “ask good questions and trade knowledge about campus issues,” according to Rushing.
The appointed trustees have important responsibilities around campus. They deal with graduation, the institution’s vi-sion, tuition, hiring on campus, the board plan, policies, hous-ing and the Student Commerce Center.
“They know the spending and have the limits,” Dr. Sweeney added.
When students have ques-tions or suggestions, there are many channels through which
they can communicate. “There are the two two-year
trustees, Billing and Rushing; student government, faculty and staff, and the Dean repre-sents students in their specific colleges,” Dr. Sweeney said.
“Student government has a website and office. They’d be happy to talk with you and send you to the right representative to speak with,” Rushing said.
Student government is locat-ed in 029H in the lower level of the Student Union.
There are monthly Board of Trustees meetings every month that are open to the public.
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There are many bakeries lo-cated throughout the Dayton area, but not many of them are like Bill’s Donuts, a 24-hour do-nut shop.
Bill’s Donuts, which opened in Centerville in 1967, sells a large variety of freshly made donuts and other pastries such as apple turnovers, muffins, raspberry batons, crème horns and buckeyes. Lisa Elam, who co-owns the shop with her
brother Jim Elam, explained what makes Bill’s unlike other donut shops.
“Ever since we opened, ev-erything we do is handmade and all from scratch,” Elam said. “We bake all three shifts, so stuff is always coming out fresh and we’ve had the same girls working for us for a long time.”
Elam also said that Bill’s Do-nuts is a small, family owned business.
“We get to know all of the customers as they come in on
The Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, located in WSU’s Cre-ative Arts Center, are celebrat-ing their 40th season with a special exhibit called “Do You Remember? Celebrating 40 Years of Contemporary Art at Wright State,” that focuses on art from past exhibits.
Tess Cortes, the gallery coor-dinator, explained that the ex-hibit is a little different from the
usual in that it features more documentation of artwork than the artwork itself.
“We are pulling old docu-mentation of past exhibits that we have had in the gallery and we are featuring them in our experimental gallery space,” Cortes said. “So people will see a little bit of actual artwork, but more documentation in the form of photographs, posters and maybe some video of past exhibitions. There will also be
some signage that explains a little bit about each exhibit.”
All of the artists featured in the exhibit are professional art-ists, many who created site-spe-cific works just for the galleries at Wright State, employed stu-dents to help install their work or both. Some artists even em-ployed students to help create the artwork as well. Some of the artists included are Terry Allen and Gene Pool Harding, who was famous for making “living
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grass suits” in the 1980s, an era that is part of contemporary art.
Cortes said that students who visit the exhibit will be able to gain a perspective both of WSU and the world during those times.
“This university is very con-temporary in itself in that we are fairly young compared other universities,” Cortes said. “We are one of the only programs around that focus on contem-porary art. Through the exhibit,
students can get a brief sense of the art that has come through here over the years and what was unique for WSU and was unique for the artist at that time too.”
Cortes also said exhibit at-tendees will glimpse what was happening socially and cultur-ally at the university and in the world in contemporary history.
The exhibit will be open until March 15
the different shifts,” said Elam. “We try to call people by name. We know what they want when they come in.”
Elam also explained that due to its late hours, Bill’s has be-come a popular hangout for both high school and college students over the years.
“We are open 24/7, so we get a lot of young people who come in at night like after football games or from dates or out par-tying,” Elam said. “We also get a lot of people who come in and study late at night, or are work-ing on term papers at two or three in the morning. We have a lot of kids who go through here and some of them we end up hiring for different shifts while they go to school.”
Bill’s Donut Shop is located on 268 North Main Street in Cen-terville.
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“Business just wasn’t for me. I’ve always liked figuring out how people think, listening to their problems. Sometimes I’m not the best with advice. I really want to be that person that people can come to and talk to and I can kind of lead them in the right direction.”
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Last April, the NCAA relaxed its rules on how many meals institutions can provide for stu-dents.
In response, Wright State recently changed its policy to allow students on full scholar-ships to receive more meals paid for by the university.
As full time student-athletes, the amount of food required to keep a healthy diet is more than the average student. With prac-tices and workouts through-out the day, players have to get enough nutrition to perform at their highest level. In previous years, the NCAA has kept strict rules on the amount of food the university was allowed to sup-ply to student-athletes.
According to NCAA.com, “Di-vision I student-athletes can receive unlimited meals and snacks in conjunction with their athletics participation.”
This new rule came days after the NCAA Men’s Basketball Fi-nal Four’s MVP Shabazz Napier
WSU providing meals for athletes on full scholarship
claimed he and his teammates had “hungry nights” during the season and no money to buy food.
With the NCAA rules the way they were, the school could not provide any kind of food for them for free. Each university had the choice of providing 3 meals a day or a limited stipend for food. Anything past that was considered a violation.
In past years, Wright State has given their athletes stipends to help with food money and other expenses. They also provided athletes with privately funded “training tables” which are now being rebranded as “meals inci-dental to participation.”
According to Deputy Ath-letic Director Roderick Perry, they are planning to continue rebranding this meal plan un-til they have an “all you care to eat” dining facility available on campus.
WSU’s volleyball and basket-ball teams are considered full scholarship teams, whereas other Wright State athletics may only offer half scholarships
or less. The Wright State stu-dent athletes playing full schol-arship sports are now given 100 swipes per semester to go along with their stipend.
“We did not have any swipes at all last year. It is already a lot more convenient,” senior wom-en’s basketball player Breanna Stucke said.
Even though the basketball season has yet to start, they have already begun taking ad-vantage of the new rules.
“We also started having team meals earlier this year,” added teammate Abby Jump.
This change is expected to be one of many to come from the NCAA who has been discussing reform since recent lawsuits and criticism regarding ath-letes’ rights.
“It is a tumultuous time, but not a scary time. We are a flex-ible university and we will make sure our student athletes are well taken care of,” said WSU Athletics Director Bob Grant.
Wright State’s Jake Stovall and Eric Lynch linked for two of WSU’s three goals Sunday in the Raiders’ 3-2 win over IUPUI.
The Raiders scored all three off their goals in the second half of set pieces.
WSU goes into a two-game west coast road trip Friday with a 3-0-1 record.
The Raiders were a bit ex-hausted Sunday after winning a gritty 2-0 game against Robert Morris two days prior. IUPUI came into Sunday’s match with two additional days of rest and it showed versus WSU.
“Good teams find a way,” WSU head coach Bryan Davis said. “We have to find a way in games. It is going to be ugly, and I prom-ise you there will be a very im-portant win for us that we even don’t deserve and we’ll be able to look back on days like this and win in manners that aren’t the way you want to.”
WSU lost four of its first six matches a season ago; all four of the losses were by one goal. Davis said that Sunday’s contest was a match the Raiders likely would have lost a year ago.
“There is no question (our team has grown up), but we have great leadership, great kids, great people,” Davis said.
WSU answered deficits of 1-0 and 2-1 in the second half. Stovall got the Raiders on the board in the 50th when he used his head to redirect a corner kick from Lynch.
After IUPUI’s Emmanuel Usen scored in the 54th minute, WSU’s Zach Zwiesler scored off a set piece less than a minute later to knot the game at two.
After pressing on with the game tied, Stovall headed in a free-kick from Lynch in the 73rd minute to give the Raid-ers their first lead of the contest at 3-2. For the final 17 minutes, WSU did not allow any serious threats by IUPUI.
“I have four goals in my col-
legiate career and they are all from Eric Lynch,” Stovall said. “He puts it where it needs to be. He is amazing at that. I had to fight for it on the set pieces, guys were grabbing shirts.”
The Raiders have yet to score a goal in the first half of a con-test this season.
WSU will have its toughest test of the season Friday at San Diego State. The Aztecs are com-ing off a pair of victories versus Top-25 teams.
“I had to fight for it on the set pieces, guys were grab-bing shirts.”
WSU traveled to San Diego State last year and won 3-2 late in the season.
“It is our biggest test so far,” Stovall said. “We came out, we went up 3-0 and won 3-2. But they’re going to come out look-ing for some revenge. They are a quality team.”
Last weekend, the Wright State volleyball team hosted the Flyer-Raider Invitational where they faced off against Eastern Kentucky, Dayton University and Bowling Green. The Raid-ers finished the weekend 0-3, but took the last two teams to a fifth set.
WSU volleyball coach Susan Clements expected the raised level of competition and knew it would be a test for her young team.
“This weekend we will be challenged with very high qual-ity volleyball. It’s constant preparation for Horizon League play,” Clements said.
The Raiders came into the weekend with a 2-2 record after falling to Northern Kentucky in their home opener. They start-ed the weekend against a strong Eastern Kentucky team who en-tered the tournament with a 4-1 record.
Eastern Kentucky set the tone in the opening set winning 25-17. The Colonels maintained control for the majority of the game and eventually won 3-0. Marisa Aiello led the way for the Raiders with 12 kills.
WSU’s second match of the tournament came on Saturday and was against the Dayton Fly-ers who were the co-hosts of the tournament. The Raiders fell short in a very close match end-ing 3-2. The match was back
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and forth with a total of 37 ties and 17 lead changes and neither team leaving room for error.
The match came down to a strong finish from the Flyers in the final set where they took a commanding 6-1 lead early.
Later that night, the Raiders played their weekend finale against Bowling Green. The match was tight from start to finish, but the Raiders eventual-ly lost in yet another five-set de-cision. The match was dominat-ed by freshman Nicole Slimko from the Falcons who recorded an astounding 31 kills.
“(Slimko) had an amazing match. She really took over and we had a hard time stopping her,” Clements said.
Frshman Katie Klusman had an exceptional tournament leading the team in kills with a total of 36. The Raiders were also led by senior and captain Ashley Langjahr with 28 kills and six block assists.
There is still a lot of work to be done for a team that is still trying to get its young players accustomed to the level of play. With six of their 13 players be-ing freshmen, growing pains are to be expected, said Clements.
“We’re getting better and get-ting the results we want from our game plan. We have to pass better in the crucial situations and have better communica-tions but a lot of that is our youth,” said Clements.
Wright State volleyball senior Ashley Langjahr is currently eight games into her final sea-son for the Raiders.
On a team that is filled with youth, Langjahr relies on her experiences from her early days as a Raider to help mold and de-velop the younger athletes on her squad.
Although it was Langjahr’s fa-ther who sparked her interest of volleyball at a very young age, it was also her hometown’s high level of success in high school that engaged her interest grow-ing up.
“My dad played in rec leagues. I come from a pretty small town, so at festivals they always would
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have sand leagues and I would go watch my dad. Volleyball is pretty big in my hometown and the school was pretty big too,” Langjahr said.
Langjahr began playing vol-leyball by joining a club team when she was in the fourth grade in her hometown of New Washington, Ohio. From that point on, she fell in love with the sport and experienced a lot of success all the way through high school.
One of her biggest accom-plishments was being a part of the team that made it to the state tournament her sopho-more year in high school, which happened to be held at Wright State inside the Nutter Center.
It was because of that experi-ence that really allowed her tal-
ents to be recognized by many Division I schools around the country.
“I was here (WSU) first for my sophomore year of high school for state tournament since we made it. I started getting let-ters and one of them was from Wright State,” said Langjahr.
WSU was not the only school that noticed Langjahr’s talents. Other big name schools such as Akron, Cleveland State and Syr-acuse were all in the mix to ac-quire the talents of the six-foot high school senior.
Although choosing a school is never an easy decision, Lang-jahr based her decision on the academics of WSU and the abil-ity for her parents to be able to make it to most of her matches.
“Cleveland State was closer
but I came here and visited and I wanted to go into pre-med or some sort of medical field and I really liked Wright State’s academics for medicine,” said Langjahr. “I wanted somewhere where I could drive home on the weekends and so that my par-ents could come to my matches pretty easily.”
One of the biggest adjust-ments that Langjahr believes is the most important for the un-derclassmen to learn and adapt to is time management.
“I think learning time man-agement was the biggest thing that I had to learn and that I tried to teach the freshmen. Es-pecially a lot of them are com-ing in with pretty tough majors, nursing and bio-chemistry, so you need to have time manage-
ment or it’s going to kill you,” Langjahr said.
Langjahr has always em-braced the leadership role. With being a team captain for the past three years, leading her teammates is something she embraces.
“The biggest thing is that I keep getting older but there are still so many young kids. When I came in there were four of us freshmen and now there is just me and Sam left. It seems like there are always freshmen, “ Langjahr said.
“I have been captain for three years now, ever since I was a sophomore, so I have gotten use to it.”
Off to its first 0-4 start in program history, Wright State picked up its first victory of the 2014 season last Friday defeat-ing St. Francis 2-1 before going on this weekend’s road trip.
Senior Ashley Miltko scored her first goal since 2012 and freshman Addie Englehart tal-lied her first collegiate goal.
WSU travels to Flagstaff, AZ. this weekend to play Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. In between games, WSU head coach Pat Ferguson will take his squad to the Grand Canyon.
“It is always a good experience
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for the girls to get out there and I think that should be part of the college experience,” Ferguson said of the cross-country trip.
The upcoming road trip is the first cross-country trip Engle-hart and her fellow 11 fresh-men have taken at the collegiate level. It will also be Miltko’s first visit to the Grand Canyon and the state of Arizona.
“You miss class but these are like mini-vacations,” Miltko said. “You go, you work hard but you’re rewarded with such great experiences. It is the best time of year when we get to travel. I’ll be taking lots of pic-tures.”
While there will be sightsee-
ing, the Raiders will look to improve from their current 1-4 record.
WSU goes into the trip coming off its best outing on the young season last Friday. The Raiders outshot the Red Flash 21-4.
WSU got on the board in the ninth minute as Englehart was left wide open on the left side-line and booted the ball into the net from distance.
“After I shot it, I asked myself ‘what am I doing, I am so far out,’” Englehart said. “I felt like I shouldn’t be shooting. I was kind of was surprised (the ball went in) and I didn’t know what to do so my celebration was kind of weak.”
Englehart’s goal gave WSU its first lead of the season.
Miltko gave the squad a much-needed insurance goal in the 39th minute. She scored seconds after teammate Allie Metzler had a shot go off the crossbar.
Miltko said the feeling in the locker room was different at halftime holding onto a 2-0 lead.
“We were more upbeat, we have this, we just have to keep focus. It was just a whole differ-ent atmosphere when we had the lead,” Miltko said.
But the second half got off to a rocky start. After WSU out-shot SFU 10-0 in the first half, the Red Flash got their first shot
on goal in the 51st minute. That shot from Casey Gallaher led to a SFU goal that cut WSU’s lead to 2-1.
With WSU’s inability to regain the two-goal lead late in the game, Ferguson said his squad panicked late in Friday’s con-test.
“I said to the coaches ‘this is going to teach them that they can’t make silly mistakes,’” Fer-guson said. “I told the team at halftime that 2-0 is the most dangerous lead in soccer for the team that is up. If a team scores again on you, they have momen-tum. It was a good learning ex-perience.”
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