Western has started welcoming students from universities in the Gulf Coast area who were uprooted by Hurricane Katrina. Western will admit students and hire faculty who were displaced because of last week's hurricane. It is one of the measures t implemented at an administrative council meeting Tuesday.
The campus police department's futuristic new vehicle is turning heads and making foot patrols more efficient. The campus police have been testing the practical use of Segways in daily police work and crowd control at special events for the past three months.
Students may be able to have Internet access at their fingertips at any location on the Hill by next year. Western's campus should be running on a completely wireless network within the year, said Richard Kirchmeyer, vice president of Information Technology.
The saliva in the Hilltopper cornerbacks might be starting to build, and their tougues might be licking their chops. The Hilltoppers' radar is turned up as they get ready to circle wagons at 6:30 p.m. Saturday against Eastern Kentucky. Eastern sophomore Josh Greco threw seven interceptions in last year's 21-8 victory for the Hilltoppers.
Financial support for a university can wane after major fundraising campaigns end. But the support for Western hit a record high two years after the completion of Western's first capital campaign. Western received $13.2 million in cash flow from donations between June 2004 and July, a record amount for Western.
Photojournalism students at Western and other schools will have a new educational resource to use online. Western's photojournalism program has partnered with the National Press Photographer's Association to create an online educational component to go along with NPPA's annual Best of Photojournalism contest.
The Student Government Association will continue giving money to student organizations this semester, but the process won't be as easy as before. Student organizations will have to fill out an application by Sept. 23 to show qualifications for receiving aid.
t hasn't been long since 1995 Western graduates shelled out money for tuition, housing and books. But the alumni have continued to give back to Western when donations were needed. This summer Western won the Kentucky Challenge, a competition that measured young alumni fundraising participation in Kentucky colleges and universities.
The campus police department received an early Christmas present this August. A local Honda dealership donated a fully-loaded 2006 Honda Ridgeline RTS to the campus police that will be used to promote the department's Explorer program. The Ridgeline, which is worth $30,000, will also be used to help with seminars hosted by the police, Sgt.
Children have to act like adults and are discovering what it means to be in the real world at an earlier age, causing underachievement in education, says Sylvia Rimm. Rimm, the director of the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, hopes to find a solution to this trend in middle school children by hosting a two-day seminar and workshop through the Center for Gifted Studies at Western.
Patty Booth leaned toward the screen of a black Dell computer, pecking away at the second computer she has gotten since 2002. Booth, the manager of human resources information systems support, said the two-year-old Thompson Complex lab cast-off computer can't keep up with the tasks demanded of the department.
Professor evaluations distributed by SGA and accessed through TopNet will be handed out again this semester, but SGA plans to increase student and faculty awareness by using more publicity. The evaluations allowed students to rank their professors on a scale of one to five on issues regarding the professors' skills in the classroom.
