Once upon a time, Western was off to a 26-7 start and ranked as high as 18th in the national polls. Just four weeks have passed, and now the Toppers (31-16, 12-9 Sun Belt Conference) have lost nine of their last 14 games, putting them in a three-way tie for fifth in the league standings.
More people are graduating from Western this year than ever before, with a record 2,051 degrees to be awarded on May 14-15. Many of those students are counting on the fact that they will earn more money with a college degree. Some researchers are questioning exactly how much more college grads make than students who don’t attend [...]
City officials are still trying to clean up Bowling Green after last Sunday’s heavy rain and flooding. Bobby Phelps, operations manager for Bowling Green Public Works, said cleanup crews have averaged about eight hours a day since Sunday. “It’s going to take a while,” he said. Phelps said the crews have been putting up high water and road [...]
Tessa Duvall
29 July 2010
Board of Regents: July 30, 2010
Tessa Duvall
19 July 2010
Western received record-breaking cash donations in the last fiscal year, according to a university press release sent out today. Tom Hiles, vice president for Institutional Advancement, said the university received $19 million in cash from July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010, a 39 percent increase over cash received last year. This is the highest total Western [...]
Emily Ulber
16 July 2010
The Western students who biked across the country to raise money for Alzheimer’s research ended their 3,200-mile journey on Friday afternoon in Yorktown, Va. Tyler Jury, of Elizabethtown, and the four other Western students who rode for Fijis Across America departed from Oceanside, Calif. on May 25 and have passed through nine states. Chaz Vittitow of Louisville, [...]
Emily Ulber
25 June 2010
Students will be paying 5 percent more for resident undergraduate tuition under the 2010-2011 budget approved by the Board of Regents Friday morning. Regents also approved the slate of officers for 2010-2011, and Chair Jim Meyer briefly discussed President Gary Ransdell’s performance review. In April, the Council on Postsecondary Education approved 5 percent as the maximum resident [...]
