Kris Childers and Shayna O’Kelley spend their weekends making up stories about the deceased. They joked that one man was 18 feet tall and hence, a professional basketball player in the 1800s. The fact that the headstone and the footstone of his grave in Mount Moriah Cemetery were spread far apart lended to this story.

There’s one place in Bowling Green I can always go. It might be 4 a.m., I might be bored or just hungry. I might want to chat with a good friend, or two, or 10. And this one place can fill any of these needs any time of the day. That place is Steak ‘n Shake.

Sorority women were rewarded last weekend for their hard work. A group of 13 women from the Panhellenic Association traveled to Atlanta for the Southeastern Panhellenic Conference. They received the Scholarship Programming Award. Gary Wiser, coordinator of Greek affairs, was also rewarded, receiving the New Professional Adviser of the Year award, according to the press release.

Matt Vaughan used his high school job at Pizza Hut to raise awareness for global poverty. The freshman from Mexico, Mo., wrote notes about the ONE Campaign on the board at work and handed out information to customers. Now that he’s at Western, he’s still spreading the word about this issue.

Spending around 10 weeks away from Mom and Dad is something I’ve always been a fan of. I am in charge of pretty much everything in my life.

I love the freedom that going away to college brings – you make your own schedule, decide when you eat, where to eat or if you even want to eat.

Nashville junior Alexander Brindley, clad in black gloves and a helmet, steps back to block his opponent by thrusting a brown wooden sword directly in front of his body. This move, the “master strike,” means Brindley knew exactly how his opponent would attack him, and he attacked back with this same move.

After Communication Instructor Charlotte Elder is done teaching class today, she will be bombarded by dodge balls. Students will throw dodge balls at her for a dollar at the Duck ‘N’ Dodge Tournament at 5 p.m. in Diddle Arena auxiliary gym. Duck ‘N’ Dodge is a charity event that will help raise money for the Bowling Green Special Olympics, the Plano Elementary fund and the Mark Williams Scholarship fund, a scholarship for recreation majors, said Tournament Coordinator Tammie Stenger.

A new house can now be built thanks to the jeans, skirts, purses and other denim materials some Western students decided they didn’t need. For the last two months, students have dropped off their denim to “Cotton, from Blue to Green,” a denim drive organized by the Public Relations Student Society of America.

Kentucky has something unique, but it’s not fried chicken, country music or the Derby. Kentucky’s unique wonder is Mammoth Cave and is found underground about 30 minutes North of Bowling Green. There are 375 miles of discovered pathways in it, and more to be discovered, making it the most extensive known cave system in the world.

A simple walk to class can be exhausting for Morganlee Cheatham. The junior from Boston, Ky. has asthma and it affects several aspects of her life, especially when she treks up the Hill to class. “It’s kind of embarrassing when you’re huffing and puffing,” she said.