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Kentucky Horse Park Honor’s Program Starts Advisory Council
welcomes By Andrea Hurtado
The honors students elected sev- Coordinator; Zack Hall, Publicity Coordi-
international students en representatives. They held their nator; Siera Dotson, Records Coordinator;
By Andrea Hurtado
On Friday, Sept. 13, international stu-
dents went to a trip in Lexington. They
went to the Kentucky Horse Park, and two
of them rode horses for the first time. On
Saturday, they went to the apple festival,
and saw apple trees for the first time. It was
a good experience for the students, and they
learned more about the Kentucky culture.
The trip was planned by Diann Whit-
tier, the international student advisor.
Even though many students couldn’t at-
tend because of sports competitions or
other reasons, the trip still happened.
Stephen Lemon, from Ireland, Camila
Agudelo, from Colombia, and Andrea
Hurtado, from Colombia, went on the
trip. The students explored the horse park
for approximately 2 hours, and then they
went to ride the horses. It was the first
time Agudelo and Lemon rode horses.
“As it was the first time I was rid-
ing a horse, I was a little scared of fall-
ing or that the horse was going to run
suddenly, but the truth is that the horse
was very quiet, and everything went very
well. In the end, I really enjoyed that
moment and I could connect for a while
with the horse and nature,” Agudelo said.
The next day, they went to Evan Or-
chard’s Cider Mill farm market. They en-
joyed the farm fun and they saw new things.
None of them had seen an apple tree before,
and even though they didn’t get to pick any
apples, it was still interesting. They saw
and bought locally grown food, and they
also tried honey sticks for the first time.
first meeting on Friday, Sept. 27.
This semester, the Honors Program imple-
mented the new council helps students get
involved in the decision making process,
as well as bring their own ideas to the table.
Voting for this council concluded on
Sunday, Sept. 22, and the members were an-
nounced on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The rep-
resentatives are: Jami Young, Chair; Andrea
Hurtado, Vice Chair; Deanna Dale, First-
Year Representative; Kelsie Dean, Events
Motivational Mondays discusses reading
By Siera Dotson
Monday, Sept. 16, the Center for
Student Success hosted its weekly Moti-
vational Monday in the Student Success
Learning Lab with professor of English
and director of experiential learning, Dr.
Hannah Freeman. Freeman discussed the
topic of deep reading and digital reading.
Motivational Monday strives to
teach valuable lessons to students.
Eight speakers have agreed to host
an event throughout the semester.
“We started Motivational Monday
in 2016 because we realized there were
alot of topics that would help students
Students meet Fall Sports Teams
By Sydni Eldridge
On Sept. 24, “Meet the Fall Sports” was
held in the UPIKE gym. Kelly Wells, ath-
letic director, hosted the event. There were
multiple teams there, including the E-Sports
team, the cheerleaders, volleyball, wom-
en’s bowling, football, dance, golf, men’s
and women’s soccer, and cross country.
“Our goal is to be as focused on cheer-
leading and as spirited as we can be. We
want to work well together as a team. We
have had a great preseason, so winning the
mid-south competition and placing higher
at national’s are two of our biggest goals,”
Jeannie Stone, cheerleading coach, said.
Each player introduced their names,
majors, and their hometowns. In be-
tween each team introduction, a game
was played, prizes were given out to the
winners, and the cheerleaders did a short
performance. The bowling team passed
and Kaitlyn Puckett, Service Coordinator.
“It’s a wonderful experience to get
to know people I didn’t previously know,
and I’m looking forward to the leader-
ship skills it will teach me,” Dean said.
During the meeting, they planned
events for October, and talked about
what they could do to better the pro-
gram. Look for honors students in
the plaza in October as they will host
a breast cancer awareness event.
outside the classroom,” said Director of
Student Success and coordinator of Mo-
tivational Monday, Megan Childress
Student Success also recognized stu-
dents needed easy access to the lectures. By
streaming each one on Facebook, all stu-
dents have the access to the helpful lessons.
“Some topics aim to help students
academically, like time management
or studying for finals, while others are
geared more toward life skills, like bud-
geting or adulting,” Childress said.
Sara Strabel and Marty Green will
speak at the upcoming Motivation-
al Monday about conflict resolution.
out bracelets and played a miniature bowl-
ing game; most of the other teams played
miniature games of their sports, too.
“My goal is to have a winning sea-
son and to get closer as a family,” Jil-
lian Kidd, freshman soccer player, said.
Including the sports teams, about
200 people came to the event. There
were many kids, and Pikey was there
to take pictures with everyone and
to cheer on the fall sports teams.