You can be sure that Bookstore department manager Forrest Halford rode his recumbent tricycle this morning. He rides it to and from campus five miles every day, except for Monday, he said. On Monday, he brings a change of clothes for the week to his office and goes grocery shopping.

Each year, it sets a record. The annual Blood Drive began Monday, April 21, and went through Wednesday, April 23, at the Preston Center. Last year, the drive produced 1,103 pints of blood for the American Red Cross, a record until it produced 1,260 pints this year.

For about an hour every Tuesday and Thursday since the Valentine’s Dance on Feb. 15, Western’s jazz band has rehearsed for this performance. Saturday at the Capitol Arts Center the WKU Jazz Band and Combo played a free show with special guests: John Blount, trumpet; Patricia Johnson, vocals; and the Greenwood High School Jazz Band.

Ceilings are crumbling in St. James Apartments. But some of the apartment doors are open. In Apartment 3, there was once a stripper’s pole. In the ex-bedrooms is graffiti boasting John Wayne Gacy and Michael Myers. “They asked if they could paint,” said landlord Brent Wimpee, of Southern Kentucky Building and Remodeling Inc. “They ransacked the place.”

I went to the baseball game Sunday. I arrived at about the third inning. It was one of those days when one was either inside wanting to be outside, or outside never wanting the day to go away. I didn’t feel guilty sitting stagnant on the first base line. I doubt anyone did.

Many houses that line the streets leading to the downtown square have history. Some are barely standing to tell it. On Chestnut Street, St. James Apartments will be closed soon for mass renovation. Some are still going strong. At 1149 State St., the dark red brick, two-story Victorian house stands with a porch and a balcony wrapping around the right.

TAMPA, Fla. – Dick Lee, 77, said it’s been at least 18 years since he’s visited his hometown, Bowling Green. He moved to Tampa, Fla., with his family in 1948 at age 18, and lives there today, in a house by a lake with banana trees and lizards. Dick worked for the circuit court for five years, just like his father did when Dick grew up in Bowling Green.

Student Government Association members and advisers determined in a meeting on March 18 the need for Academy of Math and Science representation in the SGA. SGA President Jeanne Johnson and Executive Chief of Staff Skylar Jordan met with Howard Bailey, associate vice president of student affairs and development, Charley Pride, director of student activities and organizations, and Gene Tice, vice president of student affairs and campus services.

There is a computer lab with Internet capabilities and a word processor that allows a student to finish a research paper in half the time that it would take if they were . writing it. It is a lab that sits shorter next to a nine-floor library, a lab that holds more information in a hundred foot perimeter than the nine stories.

Do I ride my bike because I love the smell of exhaust? Yeah, right. Do I ride my bike because I wish I had a car? No, I have a car. It sits in my driveway, leaks water on the driver side, chiefs gas like my sister smokes a pack a day. No, I ride my bike because I love to get honked at.