THE ISSUE: Housing and Residence Life started a new process for room assignments this semester that allows students to choose their dorm room and roommate without the middleman of HRL.
OUR VIEW: The new selection process for assigning rooms in dorms has run smoothly so far. HRL successfully removed the bureaucratic system of room assignments, and [...]

Newspapers do lots of things well. They inform, they expose, and they’re good for giving your windows a streak-free shine. But one thing they generally fail at is coming clean when they’ve made a mistake — and the Herald recently made one of the biggest imaginable.
Last Friday, the Herald ran a story (and I use [...]

The Issue: Western’s dorms officially close at 6 p.m. Friday before spring break.
OUR VIEW: Dorms should stay open through Friday night and close on Saturday morning instead. Students who don’t have the time to prepare on Friday because of class, work or other activities will benefit from this later closing time.
Once spring break begins, not [...]