The Western Front will continue to to hold those in power accountable, as we’ve been taught to do by our department. There’s a few things every journalism student learns within the first few quarters in the department: That the First Amendment protects journalists, and that people in […]
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Western Washington University made $585,490 on parking tickets in 2018. // Photo Illustration by Oliver Hamlin and Stella Harvey By Samantha Baxley Parking at Western is one of the most complained about topics on Western’s campus, where no one is safe from getting the dreaded yellow paper on […]
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When you’re hired at Western as a faculty or staff member, you have to complete an online training known as EverFi. It’s a program that takes up to an hour to complete and trains users on spotting and preventing sexual assault and violence. In addition to that, faculty […]
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When Western’s chapter of Students for Life of America brought Kristan Hawkins, the president of the national organization, to speak on campus, her talk was fraught with controversy. Days before the event, a poster advertising the event, titled “Lies Feminists Tell,” was lit on fire. A group of […]
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Associated Students Elections are a time of year at Western where it really matters that you keep up with what’s happening. There are candidate debates on Facebook, campaigns being run on Instagram and discussions to be read on Twitter. However, there’s a group of people missing from these […]
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By Stella Harvey, Ray Garcia and Zoe Buchli This story is the last section of a four-part investigative project from an advanced reporting course taught by Betsy O’Donovan. We contacted DeShaun Dowdy multiple times to set up an interview to provide him a chance to respond to the […]
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By Stella Harvey, Ray Garcia and Zoe Buchli This story is the third section of a four-part investigative project from an advanced reporting course taught by Betsy O’Donovan. We contacted DeShaun Dowdy multiple times to set up an interview to provide him a chance to respond to the […]
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By Stella Harvey, Ray Garcia and Zoe Buchli This story is the second section of a four-part investigative project from an advanced reporting course taught by Betsy O’Donovan. We contacted DeShaun Dowdy multiple times to set up an interview to provide him a chance to respond to the […]
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Facebook post accusing former Western student of sexual assault raises questions about university procedures.
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By Julia Berkman It’s time again for the “holiday” of choice for stoners: 4/20. The name, started by a group of high schoolers in San Rafael, California, referred at first to the time of day whereupon these stoners would ditch class and smoke weed. Soon, the terminology and […]
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