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WSA Election Exit Poll
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Vote in the WS (A election)? Take our exit poll.
Meet the WSA Pres. candidates: Aaron Booth
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Megan Higdon (Western Herald)Aaron Booth has been a part of the Western Student Association for two years, serving as Drive Safe Kalamazoo senator and it’s chairperson for the 2009-10 school year. Booth has received numerous awards and recognitions, including Humanitarian of the Year award in 2007 and is also a part of the American [...]
Meet the WSA Pres. candidates: Andrew Ladd
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Megan Higdon (Western Herald)Andrew Ladd has been a part of the Western Student Association for three years, serving as a senator of the swim club his freshman year, and as speaker of the senate for the past two years. He is also part of numerous WSA committees and has authored and co-authored many resolutions.
Ladd is [...]
‘Green fee’ to be on WSA ballot
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Fritz Klug (News Editor)This WSA election ballot has something unique this year: the option for students to endorse a $8 green free that would provide money to help fund an office of sustainability and student research and initiatives.
The $8 from every student in the fall and spring semesters, and $4 in the summer, would amount [...]
Q&A with Booth and Ladd
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Do you have any en (dorsements)?
Ladd: The Ladd/Rettich slate currently holds 12 endorsements. They include WMU’s College of Aviation, four Fraternities and seven student organizations. Endorsements are a new form of public support this year and the Ladd/Rettich slate has visited many different students on campus to share our vision, answer questions, and ask for each [...]
Police disrupt block party near campus
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Police broke up (a large St)Josh Holderbaum
Western Herald
. Patrick’s Day block party Saturday, causing parts of KL Avenue to be blocked off by squad cars.
Western Herald
. Patrick’s Day block party Saturday, causing parts of KL Avenue to be blocked off by squad cars.
WMUnited festivities benefit Haiti relief
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Megan McDonald (Western Herald)The music and dancing heard Friday in the Bernhard Center was not the usual fundraiser for student organizations. Instead, it was for the people recovering from one of the largest natural disasters of the decade.
Western Michigan University students, teachers, staff, community members and leaders attended the WMUnited for Haiti fundraiser Friday in [...]
Concerns over Colony Farm Orchard aired at town hall meeting
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Fritz Klug (News Editor)The Colony Farm Orchard may be old news for state legislators, who recently passed a bill giving Western Michigan University the right to develop the property.
However, it is nowhere near a dead issue for some in the community.
A special town hall meeting was hosted by the Oakland Drive Winchell Neighborhood Association last [...]
WMU Faculty Senate approves new add/drop policies, clicker use
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Josh Holderbaum (Western Herald)Two aspects of Western Michigan University students run into often may be getting a facelift: add/drop policies and clickers.
Both topics came up at Thursday’s WMU Faculty Senate meeting in the Fetzer Center.
The Professional Concerns Committee brought up two memoranda about changing the withdrawal process from a class.
“Right now, there are three semi-conflicting [...]
Anti-war group commemorates start of Iraq War
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Elliot Novess (Western Herald)Since 2003, the Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents of War have hosted an event to commemorate the start of the Iraq War.
This year’s event will feature arms and security expert Freda Berrigan. Her address “Shock and Awe Seven Years Later: Reflections on a War and Occupation in Iraq” will take place 7:30 p.m., March [...]
Alumni brothers speak on family business
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Elliot Novess (Western Herald)Robert and Thomas Trainor’s lecture “Entrepreneurship in a Global Economy: A Family Experience” gave Western Michigan University students a look at how a family business can survive, change and thrive over 57 years.
The Trainor’s lecture was held March 11 in Schneider Hall’s Brown Auditorium was a self-reflection of their family dynasty. Their [...]
If black holes strike – preparing for the worst
Sunday, March 14th, 2010David Alexander (Western Herald)Risks are everywhere. But some potentially catastrophic risks can be avoided with sound planning, according to one risk expert.
Professor William Leiss spoke of limiting and managing the risks involved with topics ranging from unsound economic policy to potentially devastating cosmic events last Friday in Western Michigan University’s Chemistry Building.
Leiss was born in [...]
WMUnited fundraiser to benefit Haitian relief
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Fritz Klug (Western Herald)When Darius Machado heard that an earthquake shook Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he said at first he was shocked, then he realized that he needed to do something.
As president of the Western Michigan University International Programs Council, Machado began organizing a fundraiser. As he started talking to other Registered Student Organizations about it, more [...]
WSA Pres. debate: final round
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Megan Higdon (Western Herald)The second presidential debate for the Western Student Association took place yesterday in the Chemistry building, where Presidential candidates Andrew Ladd and Aaron Booth faced off for the final time before next week’s election.
The debate was held in a “town hall” format where students were able to submit their questions on notecards [...]
New emergency alert system in place, ready to use
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Fritz Klug (Western Herald)Western Michigan University’s new mass notification system is something that students may never experience.
The system of indoor and outdoor speakers has the ability to alert and notify students, faculty and staff of a tornado warning, active shooter on campus, or another type of emergency.
The system is something Cam Vossen would never like [...]
WSA throws support behind sustainability fee
Thursday, March 11th, 2010When it comes to making decisi (ons about funding using studen)Megan Higdon
Western Herald
When it comes to making decisions about funding using students’ money, the Western Student Association does not take the responsibility lightly.
Western Herald
When it comes to making decisions about funding using students’ money, the Western Student Association does not take the responsibility lightly.
WMU hosts economic risk lecture Friday
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010David Alexander (Western Herald)Risk expert and former president of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor William Leiss, will speak about the dangers of unsound economic practices during his lecture “Risky Business: Living with Catastrophe.”
The lecture will take place from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12 and will be in room 1260 of Western [...]
WMU duo to bike across America for Habitat for Humanity
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Elliot Novess (Western Herald)The Kalamazoo community is rallying around two Western Michigan University students who will take on a monumental challenge: biking 3,600 miles across America and building affordable homes.
Psychology major Jennifer McGinnis and elementary education major Zack Sidall are participating in the 2010 Bike and Build. Both are involved with the Kalamazoo chapter of [...]
Candidate for governor proposes ‘Michigan 3.0’
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Josh Holderbaum (Western Herald)A candidate for governor wants to make government more customer friendly, reform regulations and help young people find work in the state.
Gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder held a town hall meeting Monday evening at Western Michigan University’s Fetzer Center.
“We’re at a defining moment,” Snyder said.
“We’re 50 out of 50. We ran out of [...]
The Oscars are more than movies
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Katie White (Western Herald)The Academy Awards are definitely about the movies, but a bigger part of the presentation is the fashion. The day of the Oscars, television is inundated with Red Carpet preshows. It’s all about who is wearing what and how they look in it.
The Oscars tend to come after the major fashion weeks. [...]
“End the R-Word day”
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Fritz Klug (News Editor)Retard: 1 “a holding back or slowing down : retardation 2 “a retarded person; also : a person held to resemble a retarded person in behavior”
The term, as defined by Webster’s Dicitonary, is, for some, an old time word. For others, it is an offensive slang describing those with cognitive impairments.
For the second [...]
Two alumnus, brothers to speak about their business
Monday, March 8th, 2010Elliot Novess (Western Herald)Two Western Michigan University graduates will speak at the Haworth College of Business this Thursday to talk about what it has been like to work in a business – as a family.
Thomas and Robert Trainor Jr. ’s lecture “Entrepreneurship in a Global Economy: A Family Experience” will be held at 5 p.m. [...]
Former WSA Presidents face off in state House campaign
Sunday, March 7th, 2010David James (Western Herald)The upcoming Democratic primary for the 60th district of the Michigan House of Representatives is set to have a strong Western Michigan University connection, as former Western Student Association presidents Sean McCann and Chris Praedel vie for attention leading up to the Aug. 3 vote.
While the two candidates agree that issues such [...]
Legacy of WMU alumnus inspires local travel club for children
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Erin Kaplan (Western Herald)Close your eyes and picture East Campus — back in 1927. This was the year that Merze Tate walked out of East Hall with a degree in education as one of the first black women to graduate from Western Michigan University.
Tate went on to be the first black to receive the Honorary [...]
WMU seeks input from students, faculty on HLC reaccredation bid
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Josh Holderbaum (Western Herald)Western Michigan University wants input from students and faculty to make sure it’s ready to be reaccredited later this year.
A comment session for WMU’s Higher Learning Commission self-study report will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Bernhard Center’s Martin Luther King, Jr. room.
The report offers examples about [...]
‘Green fee’ on WSA ballot next week
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 Western Michigan University u (ndergraduates will be able to )Fritz Klug
News Editor
Next week,vote on a referendum to support a new fee to fund sustainability projects on campus.
News Editor
Next week,vote on a referendum to support a new fee to fund sustainability projects on campus.
Students voice concerns over state funding issues
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Fritz Klug (News Editor)The Michigan House Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing for students to voice their concerns about the state’s higher education funding on Wednesday, March 3 in East Lansing’s Kellogg Center.
It was the first time that the committee heard directly from students.
“We always hear from university presidents, but now we have a [...]
Volunteers needed for Girls on the Run
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Photo curtesy of Beth Grego (ry-Wallis )
– Sheila Clothier, returning coach, site liaison and teacher at Portage Central Elementary runs with the girls at the 2009 GOTR 5K event.
Fritz Klug
News Editor
In late May, the streets surrounding the Vine Street neighborhood are closed and people line the sidewalks with folding chairs, noise makers and video cameras. [...]
Cease-and-desist leveled against bootleg Bronco merchandise company
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Josh Holderbaum (Western Herald)There’s something other than money that can be counterfeited — Western Michigan University merchandise.
A cease-and-desist order has been issued against a Texas company looking to produce WMU merchandise that may have violated trademark laws.
Jam Sports Marketing had been calling businesses in Kalamazoo to solicit advertising on a WMU T-shirt they would distribute [...]
Kalamazoo neighborhood renovation in the works
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Josh Holderbaum (Western Herald)Jeff Chamberlain, Kalamazoo’s Community Planning and Development director, hopes foreclosed homes in six Kalamazoo neighborhoods will soon become a thing of the past.
Chamberlain gave an update on the city’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program spending at the Kalamazoo City Commission meeting on March 1.
The federal program allows cities to acquire foreclosed homes in the [...]
