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.