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Their names are Virginia June Rountree and Verdenia Mae Rust. But the students who live around the 83- and 87-year-old sometimes just call them Aunt June and Rusty. Rountree has lived on Colonial Court near an apartment complex full of mostly students for 21 years.

Robert Watkins was working even when he sat down. Watkins, a Bowling Green senior, scoured the Hill for more than a week in search of supporters who would log on to TopNet and elect him president of the Student Government Association. On Tuesday, the candidate took a seat next to his opponent, Berea junior Kara Ratliff, in a crowded Revolution 91.

Robert Watkins was working even when he sat down.
Watkins, a Bowling Green senior, scoured the Hill for more than a week in search of supporters who would log on to TopNet and elect him president of the Student Government Association.
On Tuesday, the candidate took a seat next to his opponent, Berea junior Kara Ratliff, in a crowded Revolution 91.

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Bad communication is one of the main problems characters seem to have in television sitcoms. Kara Ratliff doesn’t want the Student Government Association to look like a re-run on late-night television. Ratliff, the Student Government Association chief of staff, said free discussion is one of the main goals she has for her potential presidency.

College students are notorious for being poor, but a lecturer on Thursday showed audience members that poverty doesn’t necessarily end at graduation. Journalist and author Barbara Ehrenreich spoke in Van Meter Hall last week to an almost-full house. Ehrenreich is the author of “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” and “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.

The student who allegedly raped a woman at the Sigma Nu fraternity house has left Western, President Gary Ransdell said. The student was going to have a disciplinary hearing with Western officials this week, but decided to leave school on his own, Ransdell said.

Marissa Heebner always knew she would attend college. But the freshman from Clifton, Va., didn’t realize she would see so many other women when she arrived. Over the past 30 years, women have started enrolling and graduating from Western and other colleges and universities in larger numbers than men.

A Western tennis player will miss at least two matches after he was arrested for possession of marijuana in Keen Hall. Bowling Green freshman Andrew P. True, son of men’s tennis coach Jeff True, was released Jan. 30, a day after his arrest, from the Warren County Regional Jail on an a surety bond.