Verdi Restaurant and Bar 410 E Main St. (270) 781-9817 Price Range: About $15 to $25 per entree. Example Entree: chicken and crab scaloppine with sherry for $16. Mariah’s 801 State St. (270) 842-6878 Price Range: About $10 to $20 per entree. Example Entree: filet mignon for $19.

Baymont Inn & Suites 165 Three Springs Road (270) 843-3200 Nightly rates: About $74 to $84 during the week and about $84 to $89 during the weekend. Holiday Inn University Plaza-Bowling Green 1021 Wilkinson Trace (270) 745-0088 Nightly rates: About $119. Courtyard by Marriott Bowling Green Convention Center 1010 Wilkinson Trace (270) 783-8569 Nightly rates: About $109.

Graduation day is close. And students are thinking of ways their families can pick them out of the massive crowd of graduates before they shake President Gary Ransdell’s hand.

Every grad is unique. Graduation caps, or mortarboards, can reflect that easily.

Every spring, whether for giddy kindergartner’s, hormonal eighth-graders, anxious high school seniors or terrified college graduates, sappy songs provide the soundtrack for family celebrations and video yearbooks.

In nine days, Western graduates will flip their tassels and move on to forever.