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 Paterno passed away from lung cancer at the age of 85. Paterno had been the head football coach at Penn State [...]
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 has caused so much fuss would have required some investigation, but not much. Type [...]
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 rhetoric and counter rhetoric, Iraqi wars and most recently, the Arab Spring, the Middle East is in the news so often that Americans might not [...]
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 country. But there are some people that are more than skeptical that any of these promises will be met after the election because [...]
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 the past few weeks, news has spread rapidly with different versions of the Penn State University scandal. Former assistant football Coach Joe [...]
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 families regarding the prevention of an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, commonly known as “swine flu.” The e-mail included information on flu [...]
By Ranchithaa Anatory Western Herald When President Barack Obama entered the oval office in late January, the entire world knew how large of a task he had ahead of him. Having made many campaign promises to deal with an economic crisis, deteriorating diplomatic relationships and the need to figure out what actions to take in [...]
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 every week for the past three weeks.Each student confirmed to have H1N1 has fully recovered with antiviral medication in less than a [...]
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 swine flu. Of the 37 probable swine flu cases in Michigan, only two have been confirmed as of Sunday evening, one in Livingston County and [...]
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 majored in exercise science. “Running played a part in my decision to major in exercise, but I think the majority of my decision came from [...]
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 students, staff, alumni, faculty and employee family members serving in over-seas units. The volunteer committee is asking that donations be dropped off to Brenda Hamlyn in the [...]
By Russell Buero Western Herald The World Affairs Council of Western Michigan played host to speaker Mead Treadwell, chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission on Tuesday. The presentation, titled “Who Owns the Northwest Passage? Arctic Issues,” focused heavily on the need for international monitoring of crisis issues in the Arctic region. The presentation started [...]
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, staff and members of the community. Eta Eta Sigma, the undergraduate social work organization and the Michigan Organizing Project, sponsored the immigration forum, which was held Jan. [...]
By Kayle Dembowski Western Herald Students and intrigued individuals gathered on Jan. 6 in the Fetzer Center’s Kirsch Auditorium to kick off the Gwen Frostic Enviormental Studies Seminar Series with guest speaker Kenneth Deffeyes, Ph.D. The series is named after WMU alumni Gwen Frostic, a well-respected artist and naturalist who passed away in 2001. She [...]
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 to track what they are eating at any given moment through instant message programs, text messaging and Web site capability. “Twitter makes it easy to see [...]
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 prices will once again soar as they did over the summer. According to MichiganGasPrices.com gas prices are their lowest since early Dec. 2004. [...]
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 account. Most of them are 10 or 15 minute sessions, but sometimes they can go for two, three or even four hours. “If I’m not busy, I’m on [...]
Wall Street Journal article highlights Kalamazoo
by Fritz Klug
On Nov. 4, the Wall Street Journal profiled Kalamazoo, Michigan in “Off the Beaten Track,” a weekly travel series. Writer Rhonda L. Rundle described Kalamazoo as “A small, charming town in southwest Michigan.”
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 being shown Oct 2. at the Unity of Kalamazoo, 1204 White Rd. at 7:30 p.m. “Crude Awakening” was produced and directed by European journalists Basil [...]
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 with the annual Banned Books week. The sixth annual Banned Books Observance will be held at the First Baptist Church, 315 W. Michigan Ave. Sept. 30 at 7 [...]
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 contact lens compliance and eye health. Now, Facebook users can add the application to receive reminder messages and alerts in their Facebook newsfeed. [...]
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 launched Web sites on Aug. 26 for university students to use a nationwide program called Campus Daily Guides. “[Campus Daily [...]
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 champion the cause of “Students for Barack Obama”. The event, dubbed “Step for Change” is aimed at encouraging students to register [...]
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 absentee, where and how to register, and just general information about ones county can leave first-timers frustrated with [...]
EAST MACHIAS, Maine — An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla that was swiped in broad daylight from its longtime location outside a store has turned up several hundred miles away — with an apologetic ransom demand. The arm-waving primate disappeared during the Labor Day weekend and store owner Lowell Miller and his wife, Sandy, marveled at how [...]
By Josh Holderbaum Western Herald Successfully making it through a simulated hostage situation can be difficult for police officers. When a local unit is required to work with an entirely Spanish-speaking unit, it requires more forethought on both sides. Last week, Costa Rican officers trained alongside Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers in hostage rescue [...]
By Jenny Song Associated Press Writer NORTHFIELD, Ill.— More than 1,000 Chicago public school students skipped the first day of classes Tuesday to protest unequal education funding, a boycott organizers said would continue through the week with help from retired teachers who will turn office lobbies into impromptu classrooms. The students took church buses 30 [...]
WASHINGTON— Republicans relegated President Bush to a brief, offsite cameo at their national convention Tuesday night and awarded one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman a prime-time speaking slot as they courted millions of independent voters essential to John McCain’s presidential hopes. One day after a frightening Gulf Coast hurricane prompted a subdued opening to [...]
By Stacey Plaisance and Becky Bohrer Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — With a historic evacuation complete, and gun-toting police and National Guardsmen standing watch over this city’s empty streets, even presidential politics stood still Sunday while the nation waited to see if Hurricane Gustav would be another Katrina. The storm was set to crash ashore [...]
— From the Associated Press. EAST WINDSOR, Conn. — A 1930s biplane glided to a crash landing in the tops of a stand of trees on Sunday, stranding the pilot and his passenger amid the branches for several hours. No one was injured, said Michael Koczera, manager of the Skylark Airpark. The single-engine de Havilland [...]
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