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VIDEO – ‘I See Me’
WKU faculty continues gender reassignment process
Photos, video and production by Matt Fields-Johnson
Story by Mandy Simpson
Jayray Fiene pointed to a picture with yellow adhesive stains and smiled wide. A child with quick blue eyes gawked gleefully back through the years on the decomposing page.
The source of the child’s amusement appeared shining on the floor—a toy car.
“This [...]
AUDIO – WKU’s Scholar House
Louisville freshmen Precious Sheckles, 19, and her fiance Leon Dillingham live together with their 5 month old Noel Dillingham in the Bowling Green Scholar house. The couple met in High School and applied to all of the same colleges together. Living in the Scholar House allows them to focus on attending their classes at Western [...]
GALLERY – 24 hours at Western
From 8 a.m. Friday, April 24 to 8 a.m. Saturday, April 25 Herald and Talisman photographers set out to capture events and moments in the lives of people at Western as a part of the special section “24 Hours.”
AUDIO – WKU grad nearly wins Masters
Click here to hear Ken Perry’s reactions
Story by Jonathan Lintner
sports@chherald.com
Greg Nugent paced the Country Creek Golf Course clubhouse Sunday in Franklin, trading between his position as general manager of the course designed by the Masters’ second-place finisher Kenny Perry and supporter of a close friend.
Perry’s quest to become the oldest Masters champion in the 75-year [...]
AUDIO – A Thousand Words
1000 Words
KALA DIAMOND
Swinging in the sunshine, dirt digging and petunia planting fill the weekend of Skyler Winters, 4, while he visits Grandma Chery at her yellow house.
“My grandson loves to garden with me,” Cheryl Obright said. “It’s kind of like magic for kids because they put a little seed or a little plant in the [...]
AUDIO – Holding on to Hope
Audio and photos by Armando Sanchez and Kohl Threlkeld, produced by Kohl Threlkeld
Story by Colleen Stewart
diversions@chherald.com
The assembly lines of the Corvette plant are still.
Silence reigns over 175,000 square feet of machinery where every Corvette and XLR in the world made since 1981 was crafted.
Bowling Green’s treasure boasts in its brochure: “No other sports car has [...]
AUDIO – Student Jobs
Audio and photos by Armando Sanchez
By Mandy Simpson
news@chherald.com
Jessica Gad traded her sorority letters and pearls for a waitress apron and a bow-tie last week. Her free time transformed into a time card and she took on a title her dad lost in January —employee.
“Both my parents were really secure in their jobs,” the freshman from [...]
GALLERY – Greek Boxing
Story by Magen McCrarey
diversions@chherald.com
Swarms of students gathered in Jaycees Pavilion Friday night as the scent of beer and anticipation filled the air.
Greek fighters filed out of a doorway shrouded in black focused and ready as “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor roared through the room.
Knuckles were clenched into tight fists as the fifth annual Sigma [...]
AUDIO – Chance at Childhood
Audio, photos and editing by Kohl Threlkeld, produced by Matt Fields-Johnson
Story by Kohl Threlkeld
When the judge announced that Christy Brock and her husband, Rick Brock, were awarded temporary guardianship of Ethan Coots, 7, and Tatum Coots, 9, last December, it was hard to find a dry eye in the room.
“I guess we were their last [...]
AUDIO – What’s your story: Suzanne Wilkerson
by Ben Severance
As bedside alarms ring early on weekday mornings, the young men in Keen Hall roll out of bed. Some are groggy and not so eager to dash out the door. But Susan Wilkerson is already up waiting for them.
Wilkerson, a building service attendant, starts her workday at 7 a.m. with a big smile [...]
GALLERY – NCAA: WKU VS. Gonzaga
story by David Harten
PORTLAND, Ore. – Check the numbers in Western’s 83-81 loss to Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. They may tell you that the Toppers lost the game following Gonzaga’s Demetri Goodson banking in a runner with 0.9 seconds left to give the Bulldogs the win.
But look a little closer, [...]
GALLERY – NCAA: WKU vs. Illinois
story by David Harten
PORTLAND,Ore. – This season, Western has played in nine games decided by five points or less, winning six. In all those games, the key word used by most players in victories was ‘composure’.
In the Toppers’ 76-72 victory over Illinois in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at the Rose Garden, composure [...]
AUDIO – TAIKO PROJECT
Audio and photography by Lance Booth, Produced by Matt Fields-Johnosn
story by Colleen Stewart
diversions@chherald.com
Amidst the blue-lit backdrop and 800 occupied seats of the Capitol Arts Center, a solitary woman stood center stage behind a drum half her size.
Her first strike on the instrument resonated, relieving the yearlong anticipation of Western’s final Cultural Enhancement Series performance of [...]
AUDIO – No place to lay your head
No place to lay your head
Audio, story and photography by Tyler Bissmeyer
James Bumpus, 50, originally from Florence Ala., came to Bowling Green, Ky., to work at an
alternative housing program a friend started. The house eventually shut down due to lack of
funding and left James homeless. Bumpus sings gospels around the downtown area in order
to feed [...]
AUDIO – Western Welcome
A graduate student from India experiences his first days in the United States
Photos and audio by Elio Pajares, family photos courtesy of Gattumeedhi, produced by Matt Fields-Johnson
story by Josh Morre
When Siham Ziani arrived on campus last fall, she realized she forgot two important things — sheets and pillows.
But unlike most students, she couldn’t call her [...]
GALLERY – Student showcase
These images have been selected from the Herald or have been submitted by students at WKU.
VIDEO – Fire near campus
Apartments lost in fire near Western
Photos by Herald Staff, video by Luke Sharrett and Daniel Houghton, audio and editing by Matt Fields-Johnson
Story by Josh Moore
Five apartments at 210 E. 13th St. were completely lost after a Friday morning fire, said Bowling Green Deputy Fire Chief Jerry Oliver.
People were inside the apartments at the time, but [...]
AUDIO – Foreign Affection
Photos, and audio by Elio Pajares, editing by Matt Fields-Johnson
Story by Elio Pajares
Union senior Linsey Ellis and Rafael Cocha, a senior from Salta, Argentina, met last semester in their finance class.
Cocha sat next to Ellis in class, but Cocha said that for some reason Ellis wasn’t nice to him. Ellis said that Cocha annoyed her.
Cocha [...]
AUDIO – Preaching on campus
Students stop to hear, question man preaching outside DUC
Photos by Lance Booth, Katie Simpson and Ryan Stone, audio by Kohl Threlkeld, editing by Matt Fields-Johnson
Story by Cole Claybourn
news@chherald.com
Students gathered outside of Downing University Center yesterday to listen to, and sometimes challenge, a man preaching about God and Christianity.
John McGlone, who spoke behind DUC Monday afternoon, [...]
AUDIO – Caring in the cold
Photos by Kohl Threlkeld, audio and editing by Matt Fields-Johnson
Story by Kohl Threlkeld
William Rummage watched the trees in his yard being snapped like toothpicks through the window of his Owensboro home last Wednesday. He thought that as long as he could keep his ailing mother downstairs and safe, everything would be fine. Then the power [...]
Gallery: Winter on the Hill
Mother Nature drenched Western’s campuses in rain, sleet, snow and a storm of weather-related problems this week.
But Western’s not alone in battling the weather.
The ice storm left many Kentuckians without power and could continue wreaking havoc as temperatures stay cold.
It’s the second-largest power outage recorded in the state, with power outages stretching across the western [...]
AUDIO – 1000 Words: James Walker
photos, audio and story by Luke Sharrett, editing by Matt Fields-Johnson
James Walker, 68, of Bowling Green has strong ties to State Street. He eats, sleeps and works on State Street. As the custodian at State Street Baptist Church for the past 17 years, Walker is in charge of making sure the century-and-a-half-year-old structure is ready [...]
AUDIO – What’s your story: Audrey Fry
photo by Kala Diamond, audio and editing by Kohl Threlkeld, story by Magen McCrary
A warm summer day began like any other for Audrey Fry: morning chats with her mother, Clyeia, and picking up her lunch while she got a routine check-up at the doctor’s office. But this routine check up led to something more grave [...]