The Kentucky Supreme Court decided yesterday that Western and the Student Life Foundation are immune from a wrongful death lawsuit involving a freshman killed on campus in 2003. The court voted 6-0 to uphold a previous decision that Western was immune and reversed a Court of Appeals’ decision that Western’s Student Life Foundation was not immune.

The Issue: Some questions have been raised regarding the Herald’s reporting on the death of freshman Dylan C. Prott. Our view: The Herald used the best information available to help the community understand what happened. The campus community is still recovering from the death of Dylan C. Prott.

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Television and movies tainted my expectations of working for a newspaper.

No one ever yells “Stop the presses!” Editors don’t chain-smoke in the office. And on most days, it’s fairly quiet in the newsroom.

Working at the Herald for three years killed those stereotypes.

It should have been quiet on Saturday morning at the Parker-Bennett-Curry Elementary School last month. It was the weekend and a wave of storms had just swept through the region the night before, painting a pale gray sky that loomed overhead for much of the morning.

By Ashlee Clark Herald reporter “Step. STOMP, STOMP. step. STOMP, STOMP.” Lindsay Tucker tried to force her tennis shoe-clad feet to match the graceful steps of her instructor. The Louisville freshman listened intently as the teacher told her to grapevine, scuff and turn her way to the slick moves of the “Reggae Cowboy.

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