Frances Huddleston-Link, 93, reminisces about her time escorting Amelia Earhart during a visit to Western. “I don’t know why she had to fly over the Atlantic all by herself, it’s just a shame,” Huddleston-Link said. “She was just the sweetest thing.” EMILY FOX/HERALD

Louisville junior Michael Marcell, president of the Skydiving Club, heads toward the landing zone at Skydive Kentucky in Elizabethtown, after making his first solo jump Saturday. Marcell has 18 more jumps before he can be a certified skydiver. CODY DUTY/HERALD

Social work major Courtney Aldrich of Franklin, Tenn. is researching and evaluating the attentiveness of Bowling Green’s services for homeless persons for her senior capstone project. MARY POWERS/HERALD

The thought of a 50-page research paper would discourage most people from writing a thesis. Lexington junior Ashley Wirfel definitely wasn’t interested.
She’s writing a 400-page novel instead.
“I wasn’t [...]

Guitarist of Oblio Terry Price sings in front of Helm Library on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. The band from Nashville were selling CD’s and shirts. CHRIS WILSON/HERALD

Music floated up and down the Hill as Oblio, an indie rock band from Nashville, performed outside Java City Wednesday.
Oblio played at Western three years ago, said [...]

Cincinnati Ohio junior Rae Daniel (right) claps with friends and hall mates (from left to right) Alexa Langley, sophomore, Florence, Ky, Kristin Smith, sophomore, Carmel, Indiana, and Ashleigh Miller, sophomore, Bedford, Ky, as she laughs at one of her responses during a practice interview session. Daniel is representing Residence Hall Assistants in the 2009 Homecoming [...]

What are you doing?
Twitter asks its users daily to answer that question in 140 characters or less.
Twitter was launched in August 2006, according to twitter.com. It is both a way for people to keep up with what friends are doing as well as a popular tool for journalists, politicians, celebrities and corporations.
Communication professor Carl Kell [...]

A lot of things can happen in 48 hours. Making an entire film, however, isn’t usually one of them.

That doesn’t stop students from competing for $1,500 in the Two Day Film Challenge. The competition starts Friday night.

Elizabethtown sophomore Christion Shanks, back right, sits with his siblings and cousins and grandmother, who takes care of all 9 kids. Shanks helps support the family by working at Wendy’s and on campus as a parking attendant. MIRANDA BARZEY/HERALD

A chorus of voices greets sophomore Christion Shanks when he goes home for a visit.
“Chris, Chris!”
Kids [...]

People in Bowling Green are walking, running and wheeling toward making a difference in the lives of people with autism spectrum disorders.
A total of 363 people competed in the Second Annual LifeSkills Run for Autism Saturday at the Bowling Green Ballpark.
“The difference between this and other events is that ours is the most family-oriented and [...]

When Xingang Fan moved to the United States in 2000, he didn’t intend to stay.
“I was a visiting scholar the first year, but the project I was working on continued, and I felt like I should stay longer,” said Fan, a meteorology professor.
Fan was born in the Gansu Province, China and attended Lanzhou University. He [...]