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.”