Posted on 28 April 2005
Music lovers, get out your calendars – the first ever MusicFest will be held this weekend. The concert will be held Saturday at the Southern Kentucky Fairgrounds inside Lampkin Park. The show will feature Young Buck and G-Unit, Below Zero and Perfect Confusion.
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Posted on 07 April 2005
The WKU Department of Theatre and Dance will be performing “Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)” starting tonight at Russell H. Miller Theatre in the fine arts center. The play, which was written by Ann-Marie MacDonald, is a comedy that combines two of Shakespeare’s plays, “Romeo and Juliet” and “Othello.
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Posted on 08 March 2005
Crystal Davis is counting down the days until graduation. Davis, who majors in advertising and sociology, will receive her degree on May 6 alongside all of Western’s spring graduates. She can’t wait. The senior from Queens, N.Y., plans to move to either Chicago or New York after graduation and plans to find a job in web design or graphic design.
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Posted on 15 February 2005
Red rose petals were scattered on the floor of the ballroom at the Carroll Knicely Conference Center Saturday night as Nelly and Kelly Rowland blasted on the speakers. Girls wrapped their arms around each others’ shoulders and posed for disposable-camera shots in the lobby, their formal dresses sparkling.
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Posted on 13 January 2005
Patrice Gaines has been many places, and on Monday she’ll add Western to her list. Gaines, an award-winning journalist, will be the featured speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Convocation at 11 a.m. Monday at Van Meter Hall. The event is free. Gaines worked as a reporter at the Washington Post for 16 years and has written two books, including an autobiography of her life, titled Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color – A Journey From Prison to Power.
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Posted on 02 December 2004
Thanks to her mother, Brooke Timmons knows what she’ll be when she grows up. The Louisville freshman plans to do page layout and design in Vogue and InStyle magazines. She came to Western to study photojournalism. Her mother, Carol Timmons, is the editor of Business First, a weekly business journal in Louisville.
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Posted on 18 November 2004
Thirty-six students will go to Chicago on Saturday to participate in a model U.N conference with a Political Science 300 class. In Chicago, the students will represent four countries: Slovakia, Congo, Somalia and the Philippines in the mock U.N. meeting. According to Roger Murphy, the faculty adviser for the trip, the students have had to research their particular country.
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Posted on 09 November 2004
Thomas Manley has every guy’s dream job. The Morganfield junior works as a desk clerk in Meredith Hall. It’s his second week working in the sorority dorm, and already he can tell that there is a difference from working a coed dorm. “It’s called estrogen I guess,” he said, in between saying “thank you” to sorority members as they showed him their student IDs.
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Posted on 28 October 2004
Carol Mason is proud of her heritage. So proud, that she has spent her life being a representative for Appalachia and even wrote a book about the stereotypes of hillbillies. The author spoke to an almost full auditorium in Mass Media and Technology Hall last night about these stereotypes in her book “Killing for Life.”
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Posted on 21 October 2004
Angela Anderson has it all figured out. The Glasgow freshman dreams of being a lawyer. “I’m good at arguing,” she said. When she was in high school, Anderson had an internship with the Commonwealth attorney’s office and decided she wanted to go into law.
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