While Jenks Britt worked on the house that he and his fiancé would soon move into, his mother arrived with a letter to him from Auburn University. A nerve-racking three-month wait to hear from the school preceded her arrival. “My mother brought me the mail,” he said.

A student in Southwest Hall was arrested Monday on charges of identity theft.
Melvin Griggs, 20, a freshman from Memphis, Tenn., was being held at the Warren County Regional Jail on a $10,000 cash bond as of Monday night.

I’m not a very good dresser. I can often be found in line at Java City wearing some tattered jeans and my ex-boyfriend’s Spawn T-shirt. My wardrobe only expands on Christmas and birthdays–unless we’re talking about my underwear stash. I scored a handful of dainty drawers at the mall last weekend, and I have since been expressing myself at the sub-trouser level.

Officials announced Wednesday that Western will be involved,along with other state universities, with a sub-orbital satellite launch in December from White Sands launch facility in New Mexico.