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Answering Faith’s Call
By Mackenzie Montross The quaint, white house that sits between Student Publications and the Confucius Institute can often be overlooked by those passing by. It looks like just any other house that surrounds Western Kentucky University’s campus, but with a...
Emotional support animals provide a variety of benefits for WKU students
By Jake Dresman WKU senior Hailee Bernard says the struggle of owning a dog on campus is worth it because her strong bond with her dog, Beverly, forces her to get out of bed in mornings when she might not have otherwise, giving her a purpose in times of need. The...
Groceries on the go for Bowling Green’s food deserts
By Samantha Mallon BOWLING GREEN — A green-and-white clad school bus-turned-grocery store joined Bowling Green’s weekday traffic at the beginning of March, thanks to the work of staff at the Housing Authority of Bowling Green. The bus, donated by Warren County Public...
Women carve out a place in STEM at WKU
By Laurel Deppen Women make up just 37 percent of the students in the Ogden College of Science and Engineering, as opposed to Western Kentucky University as a whole, where 59 percent of undergraduate students are female, according to the WKU Fact Book 2018. The...
Making limestone a lifestyle at Mammoth Cave
By Miles Schroader According to the U.S. National Park Service, more than 318 million people visited the 58 national parks across the country in 2018. But only about 20,000 get the pleasure of making a career out of the National Park Service. People who get a job in...
The ‘Principal’ Of Wrestling
In God’s house, powerslams and piledrivers are the mission for promoter and school leader Tortorello. Story by Drake Kizer Photos by Basil Mahmud In a dimly lit venue about 30 miles south of Chicago, 800 professional wrestling fans cry out to their favorite, and least...
A night of a thousand dollys
This fall, Dolly Parton celebrated her 50th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. The impersonator Carla Jean Morgan is keeping Dolly’s image — and legacy in country music — alive on the party-town streets of Nashville. Story by Sara Krog Photos by Sofie...
Dangerous steps when ‘walking the grain’
By Jeremy Chisenhall Temperatures reached 91 degrees in Mount Carroll, Illinois, on the day rescuers pulled Alejandro “Alex” Pacas and Wyatt Whitebread’s dead bodies from a grain bin. The heat started it all. Whitebread fainted while “walking the grain,” in which a...
Fast (food) Friends
The McDonald’s Man thinks you deserve a break today. By Manny Dixon-Peralta Monday. 3:30 a.m.: Jimmy Smith, 54, rises to the sound of a blaring alarm. His joints pop as he stretches out his arms to silence the electronic yell. To most, it is still the middle of the...
From death ’till we part
The embalmer’s story is a tale of art and heart. By Annalee Hubbs Kevin Kirby, a Bowling Green funeral director, leads his life knowing the moment we breathe we start taking our last breath. He reckons we’re all just a blip in the grand scheme of things. But Kirby has...