By Melissa McCarthy On Friday, Oct. 27, an 18-year-old Western student was hit by a motor vehicle while crossing the street outside of Ridgeway Kappa. She was walking across Highland Street in the 200 block when she was hit by the vehicle, Lieutenant Danette Beckley, public information […]
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By Melissa McCarthy Two female Western students reported finding a man crouched in the shower of a women’s restroom at Ridgeway Kappa residence hall at around 4 a.m. Sunday morning, according to a Western Alert Advisory sent out at around 3 p.m. Monday. One of students was […]
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By Taylor Nichols University Police actively patrolled campus Friday in search of a man who reportedly exposed himself to a female student outside Ridgeway Gamma residence hall early Friday morning, Oct. 27, said Paul Cocke, Western’s communications and marketing director. The student reported the man tried to […]
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By Rachael Buselmeier and Ray Garcia In recent years, sexual assault on college campuses has become increasingly publicized. Students are especially susceptible during the first few months of school, and first-year students significantly more so. The risk of sexual assaults occurring in college is higher between August […]
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By Jimmy Goulding A petition has been created for the Dean of Fairhaven College, Jack Herring, to establish a film major at Western. The Associated Students Board decided to disband the student filmmaking program, KVIK, last May, prompting students to take initiative to reintroduce filmmaking as an […]
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By Joshua DeJong and Zoe Deal Conservative views, college tuition, the environment, abortion. Republican state Sen. Doug Ericksen’s town hall meeting on Thursday, Oct. 12 at Western covered these controversial topics and more. A Facebook event posted by the Whatcom Young Democrats called for students to protest against […]
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By Michael Nguyen Have you ever asked for no straw while grabbing a coffee? This was one of the many tips from the new club on campus, WWU Students for Zero Waste. The club met for the first time in Arntzen Hall, room 12, at 3 p.m., on Tuesday, […]
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By Paul Kelly Western and Bloodworks Northwest tied off a successful blood drive this past week: 341 donors gave blood on campus. Of those donors 142 were first-time donors, Sasha Seiden, a donor resource representative from Bloodworks Northwest who worked directly with Western for this particular drive, said. […]
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By Ray Garcia Returning students may have noticed the newly-paved commuter parking lots, or C-lots on south campus and hoped the university’s parking shortage problems had finally been solved. However, the construction project was not intended to expand available parking. “We did get a modest increase in parking […]
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E-waste, the largest growing form of waste in America, is any electronic device that is discarded by its user. This could range from a broken pair of headphones or an old phone charger to a TV or a microwave. Only 12.5 percent of old electronics are recycled — […]
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