Grand finale speaker of the school year Spike Lee is famous for stoking controversial topics such as race relations, the role of media, urban crime, poverty and politics.

The legendary filmmaker will present “An Evening with Spike Lee” at 7 p.m. Thursday in Diddle Arena, free and open to the public.

Tugging their gentlemen escorts by the ties, the contestants of the “Miss Omega 2009″ pageant sauntered past the red velvet curtains of Downing University Center theater – beautiful, black and full of curves.

The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., brothers hosted the third annual event.

The assembly lines of the Corvette plant are still. Silence reigns over 175,000 square feet of machinery where every Corvette and XLR in the world made since 1981 was crafted. Bowling Green’s treasure boasts in its brochure: “No other sports car has carried the dreams of a nation like the Corvette.

Hand in hand, the sisters of Delta Sigma Theta and Phi Mu sororities formed a circle in anticipation of the seventh annual Unity Step Off held in the DUC Theater Saturday.

“We are all just sisters from another mother,” said Tiesha Crawford, a senior Delta Sigma Theta member from Columbia, Tenn.

Amidst the blue-lit backdrop and 800 occupied seats of the Capitol Arts Center, a solitary woman stood center stage behind a drum half her size. Her first strike on the instrument resonated, relieving the year-long anticipation of Western’s final Cultural Enhancement Series performance of the school year – “Taikoproject: (re)generation.

Mittens intact and banners in hand, 3,000 people swarmed the Capitol amidst a snowstorm Monday ending Power Shift ‘09.

“We, as a generation, have to decide whether we are locusts or honeybees,” said Van Jones, founding president of Green for All and New York Times bestselling author, during the opening session on Friday.

The crack of bowling pins and sound of laughter reverberated through the fourth floor of Downing University Center Tuesday for the 26th annual Bowl for Kids Sake hosted by Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Kentucky.

Bowl for Kids Sake events account for 50 percent of the organization’s yearly budget, according to Robin Pemberton, special events director.

The dorm room door opens to a small replica of Gandalf from Lord of the Rings that ominously forewarns, “You shall not pass!” Darth Vader looks on from a corner.

“People look at me and think I’m a scary dude,” said Hazard, Ky., sophomore Jacob Turner.

Long black locks drape his shoulders, and size 13 shoes adorn his feet.

Story Smitten and smile-stricken, gluttonous love addiction runs rampant through college campuses. Familiar to the love bug, Lagrange sophomore Sara Holmblad and Boone County sophomore Stuart Kenderes lounged on the lawn. “We spend a lot of time together,” Holmblad said.

Heavy Blues tunes resonated from the Downing University Center Theater Wednesday for the Bifida Blues Jam concert to benefit the Spina Bifida Association of Kentucky.

The event was one that Western’s student disability coordinator, Matt Davis, had been planning for more than a year.