I’m writing to address my concern over the lack of interest pertaining to the shootings and home break-ins at The Registry apartment complex. The most recent shooting happened in broad daylight on a Sunday afternoon.

The Registry is only a stone’s throw away from several residence halls. Violence that materializes at The Registry could easily spill over onto campus. In my mind, this makes The Registry’s security issue a Western security issue.

WKU definitely needed to fire someone in light of its multi-million dollar football fiasco, but the wrong guy was let go. Actually, two people need to be fired: Dr. Wood Selig and Dr. Gary Ransdell. It was Selig and Ransdell, due to their own super-sized egos and desire to make a legacy for themselves with [...]

In the world of BCS football, a coach getting fired for not winning is nothing out of the ordinary. However, in the situation of WKU, we do nothing like anyone else. We have to start at the beginning of this whole scenario to understand the repeated irony of how WKU has handled things.

Protest against rasies justified
I wanted to thank the members of the editorial board for taking the side of faculty and staff members and for printing the article about pay raises. As a student at WKU, I spend thousands of dollars a semester for tuition, books, food, etc. Included in my tuition are fees that I [...]

The Herald editors may have missed the point when it comes to vehicles driving across our campus lawns on home football game days. We have a campus to manage between football games.  We hosted numerous prospective student groups in the two weeks that it took us to repair the damage from the “mud” game [...]

I’m writing in response to the article, “Fair helps with major decisions.” I want to thank Colleen Stewart for her coverage of the 2009 Majors and Minors Fair sponsored by the Academic Advising and Retention Center. I was pleased to read her information about “exploratory” being the correct title for undeclared students. It is true that students are no longer considered undeclared or undecided. They are in fact exploratory; they are exploring their options.