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Distler named MVP, Todd Coach of the Year in HCAC

Posted on March 5, 2009July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

Jackie Distler LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania senior guard Jackie Distler captured Player of the Year honors Thursday from the Heartland Conference while Greg Todd was the selection of his peers as the league’s Coach of the Year. Distler, a Louisville Sacred Heart product, led the Pioneers to a 22-5 record and to HCAC regular season and tournament titles. She averaged 15.4 points and 6.3 rebounds a game, both team highs, while shooting 44.7 percent from the field and 31.3 percent from three-point range. She scored in double figures in 25 of 27 games with a career-high of 25 against Mt. St. Joseph. Distler, who missed her junior season with a knee injury, was named to the All-HCAC team for the first time. She is the third Transy women’s player to be named Player of the Year, joining Julie Leach (2007) and Tari Young (2003). Greg Todd Todd guided Transy into the NCAA Championship for the second time in his three seasons as head coach. The Pioneers were regular season HCAC champs for the first time since 2002-03 and took the HCAC tourney for the first time since Transy joined the league in 2001-02. Transy also won 20 or more games in a season for the first time since 2004-05. Todd’s record in three seasons at Transy is 53-29. Distler was joined on the All-HCAC first team by teammate Brittany Henderlight. The junior guard averaged 12.4 points a game, second on the team,

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Tobacco industry critic makes case for federal regulation of tobacco products

Posted on March 4, 2009July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

Jeffrey Wigand LEXINGTON, Ky.—Tobacco industry critic Jeffrey Wigand, speaking at Transylvania University on Tuesday, March 3, on the topic “Insider’s View of the Tobacco Industry,” made the case for federal regulation of tobacco products while recounting his experiences as a former executive at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation who went public with inside information on that company’s research and marketing practices. Wigand, vice president for research and development at Brown & Williamson from 1988-93, decided to violate his confidentiality agreement with his former employer in 1995 and reveal information on the company’s research involving nicotine content and its effects on addictiveness in smokers. He was subsequently the subject of a CBS 60 Minutes expose and a 1999 Hollywood movie titled The Insider that depicted his story as a corporate whistler-blower and as a key witness in a multi-state trial that resulted in Kentucky and 39 other states getting tobacco settlement money. “Federal regulation should compel tobacco companies to disclose all the additives in their products,” Wigand said. “Smokers should have the same level of knowledge the industry itself has. I have no problem with adult smokers who assume the risk, provided they do it with informed consent.” Wigand joined Brown & Williamson with the goal of developing a less hazardous cigarette and devising the testing protocol that would allow the company to make this claim in its advertising campaigns. He accused the company of thwarting this purpose and misrepresenting the

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Nearly 50 Transylvania University students head to DC for youth energy summit; senior Marcie Smith is a featured keynote speaker

Posted on February 27, 2009July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University senior Marcie Smith will be a featured keynote speaker at Power Shift ’09 in Washington, D.C., Feb. 27- March 2. Smith and 47 other Transy students join 10,000 student leaders from around the world to lobby for the President and Congress to pass a bold climate and energy policy that prioritizes renewable energy, green job creation and an aggressive cap on carbon emissions.   “The youth of America turned out in record numbers to elect a new President and Congress,” Smith said. “We’re here now to take our rightful seat at the political table. We are at a critical point in our nation’s history. We have the chance to work with our new leadership to build a new green economy and address our climate crisis with the passage of bold climate and energy policies.” Smith is being featured as a keynote speaker because of her expertise on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and her work with the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition. Last December Marcie attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Poznań, Poland. In Poland, Marcie served as a policy expert and worked closely with the Congolese government delegation on deforestation and indigenous rights issues. Smith will also be speaking about these issues in great detail not only during her keynote, but during a workshop titled, “The Relationship between the Global South and the Global North in Climate Negotiations.” As a sophomore, Smith, who is studying

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