Megan Wenzl News Reporter Two men are suspected of detonating two bombs that killed three people and wounded 176 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to a news update by USA Today....
Read More →Ambrosia Neldon News Editor Update: Nineteen Kalamazoo natives ran in the Boston Marathon. Vice President Biden has confirmed that the explosions were intentionally detinated bombs. Two spectators h...
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Christina Cantero News Reporter The annual Press Freedom Index generated by Reporters Without Borders (RWB) revealed that the United States ranks 32nd in the world. This is confusing, as freedom of t...
Read More →By Ted Yoakum Staff Reporter Last year’s Arab Spring revolution movement in the Middle East that led to the ousting of authoritarian regimes in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen reawakened the America...
Read More →Emily Midling Staff Reporter In light of the recent controversial death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, hundreds of WMU students marched in support of justice. Martin, who was not armed, but...
Read More →Ted Yoakum/Western Herald Ted Yoakum Staff Reporter Though President Barack Obama’s fight to remain in the Oval Office is still months away, campaign members are hitting the pavement now, seekin...
Read More →By Nathan Palcowski Staff Reporter On Jan. 22, 2012, not only did Penn State University and the rest of the college football world lose a coach, they lost an icon. Legendary football coach Joe Pater...
Read More →By Jake Adams Staff Reporter On Jan. 18, if you didn’t know about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), by the end of the day you at least knew that it existed. What it is, why it’s there and why it ...
Read More →By Baxter Gill Staff Reporter Tensions in the Middle East have been building for as long as many Western Michigan University students can remember. Between OPEC oil price manipulations, Israeli rhetor...
Read More →Tayler Cattera Staff Reporter The 2012 presidential election is now in full swing and candidates’ promises and proposals of how to fix the many problems facing America have been heard across the cou...
Read More →By Catie Dymond Staff Reporter The recent accusations at Penn State University allow people to analyze and recognize mistakes made by Penn State officials so they can be avoided in the future. Over th...
Read More →Sebastian Fryer Western Herald As a new academic year begins, the threat of a pandemic hangs over Western Michigan University. On Aug. 31, 2009, WMU administrators sent out an e-mail to students and ...
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By Ranchithaa Anatory Western Herald (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT) U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference June 23, 2009 in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Wash...
Read More →By Daing S. Nasir Western Herald As of June 5, Sindecuse Health Center has confirmed three cases of the H1N1 virus, otherwise known as the “swine flu.” The university has diagnosed a case ever...
Read More →By David Alexander Western Herald To allay concerns of a pandemic, Western Michigan University officials are urging students and citizens alike to stay informed about the potential threats of the swin...
Read More →By Brianna Clabin Western Herald Western Michigan Alumnus, Chad Mahakian, will be representing the U.S. in the 2009 Maccabiah Games (Jewish Olympics). Mahakian graduated in August from WMU, where he m...
Read More →By David Alexander Western Herald Western Michigan University is seeking donations and help in preparing care packages for WMU-affiliated soldiers serving over seas. The mailing list consists of stude...
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By Russell Buero Western Herald (Michael Paeplow / Western Herald) Mead Treadwell, Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, kicked off the 2009 Great Decisions Foreign Policy Lecture Series at WM...
Read More →Josh Holderbaum Western Herald Western Michigan University presented a forum on the subject of immigration. The forum was designed to humanize the condition of undocumented immigrants to students, s...
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By Kayle Dembowski (Brooke Klenow / Western Herald) Kenneth Deffeyes, Ph.D., a Princeton geologist, author, and long-time Shell employee, uses his wit to inform the audience about Peak Oil at the Fros...
Read More →By Carly Kuppe Western Herald Western Michigan University students can use TweetWhatYouEat.com to track what they eat on a daily basis. TweetWhatYouEat (TWYE) uses Twitter technology that allows users...
Read More →By David Alexander Western Herald As gas prices continue to drop to their lowest in four years, students can’t help but wonder whether this trend will continue over Christmas break or whether price...
Read More →Social networking on the Web becomes more like reality than simulation By Fritz Klug Western Herald Everyday Western Michigan University student Melissa “Missy” Terrace checks her Facebook accoun...
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Fritz Klug Western Herald (Jay Pliskow / Western Herald) Interior of the The Union Cabaret and Grille. The Union is one of the local business featured in the Wall Street Journal travel series “Off ...
Read More →By Katherine Peach Western Herald With rising oil prices affecting every aspect of the U.S. and foreign markets, one film locally addresses possible solutions. “Crude Awakening, the Oil Crash” is ...
Read More →By Katherine Peach Western Herald With ongoing debates concerning censorship and freedom of information raging constantly, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is celebrating free speech wit...
Read More →By Carly Kuppe Western Herald The Acuminder application is now available as a complimentary service to Facebook users. Acuminder is a free online tool that was introduced last year to help with contac...
Read More →By Ali Pavlicek Western Herald Restaurant guides, upcoming events, the latest news and so much more will all be available at the click of a button. That’s right, this is all possible, now that MTVU ...
Read More →By Jack Christensen Western Herald Choirs will sing and students will dance as Will.I.Am of Black Eyed Peas and Tatyana Ali from the television show The Fresh Price of Bel-Air take the stage to champi...
Read More →By David Alexander Western Herald Voting can be a hassle. With so many things to consider about the voting process it is easy to see how many young voters become confused by it all. Things like voting...
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