Western students will get to debate the death penalty at a forum Tuesday.

The forum will take place at 6 p.m. in Cherry Hall Auditorium.

Kate Miller, program associate for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, said more than 130 people have been found innocent after being on death row in the last 30 years.

Western may be creating a long-term relationship with Jamaica.

Last weekend, Western faculty and students traveled there to help the country learn how to protect its water resources, and are planning to go back.

Faculty and students from Western’s department of geography and geology, the School of Journalism and Broadcasting, and the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute went on the trip, according to a Western press release.

One of Western’s newest clubs is collecting shoes to send to children overseas.

The Rotaract Club partnered up with the Greek community and athletics committee for its first project. Members will be collecting shoes that will be sent to Africa, according to a Western press release.

For many blood donors this week, a fear of needles took a back seat to a bigger cause.

The annual Greek Week Blood Drive began Monday and lasted until Wednesday at the Preston Center.

The event was a competition during Western’s Greek Week.

A flat-screen TV will be given to the fraternity and sorority that donated the most blood.

They were once enemies, now they are friends.

When Maj. Dan Cherry, grandson of former Western President Henry Hardin Cherry, shot down a Vietnamese MiG-21 fighter jet during the Vietnam War, the thought of someday meeting up with the pilot of that jet didn’t cross his mind, Cherry said.

Student Government Association members spent more money during Tuesday’s meeting than they did at any other SGA meeting this year.

SGA spent about $16,400 at the meeting, Administrative Vice President Reagan Gilley said.

He said it’s excellent that SGA is spending the money.

Western officials hope to open up sustainability studies to more Western students with a proposed new minor.

The Board of Regents’ Academic Affairs Committee approved a new minor in sustainability at its meeting on Friday.

Committee approval is a recommendation to the full board, according the board’s bylaws.

Unicorns, leprechauns and clean coal.

To some Western students, all of these have something in common.

GreenToppers and Americans for Informed Democracy united for Fossil Fools’ Day on Wednesday.

Despite an economic recession, people are looking for jobs and employers are looking to hire.

Students and employers gathered at the Carroll Knicely Conference Center Wednesday for the 2009 Career Services Job Fair.

More students attended this job fair than the one in the fall, but there were about 40 more employers at the fall event said Becky Bennett, director of the center.

Western students no longer have to be on campus to receive free tutoring.

The Learning Center is offering online tutoring sessions.

Students can get help in more than 40 subject areas such as math and English, said Sean McCray, assistant director of supplemental education.