before & after: college heights herald
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This is my redesign of my college newspaper, The Herald. The first two pages are from my first semester of working at the newspaper as an entry level designer, the last two are after my redesign during my senior year. When I started working at the Herald, the newspaper was text driven and ridged. With the redesign I hoped to breathe life into the college paper, to make it vibrant, sexy, engaging.TRANSCRIPT
BEFORE REDESIGN
BEFORE REDESIGN
The legion of undergradu-ate Toppers is growing faster than any other body of stu-dents in the state.
Western’s estimated under-graduate enrollment rate of growth has surpassed all oth-er Kentucky public schools in the past decade.
The growth of 36.6 percent since 1999 was the largest by a margin of 13.1 percent, ac-cording to estimated enroll-ment data from the Council on Postsecondary Education.
“It is definitely a hefty
increase,” said Sue Patrick, communications director for CPE.
Western’s undergraduate enrollment rate increase is followed by Northern Ken-tucky University with growth of 23.5 percent and Kentucky State University with growth of 15.8 percent, according to CPE’s data.
“Western seems to be keeping up with their thriving campus,” Patrick said. “They are a stellar example of how to grow and also serve the students, region and state.”
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10.02.09 • COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD • Vol. 85, No. 9 • WKU
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Students who want their clothing altered only have to walk down the Hill into downtown Bowling Green to find what they need.
Erin Huntsberry opened Just My Fit, an alterations and design shop at 916 ½ State St., in April.
“I have a love-hate rela-tionship with my job,” she said, while trimming fab-ric on her measuring table. “There are sometimes when I feel a little overloaded, but there’s no better feeling in the world when I finish a complicated job.”
Huntsberry, who does all of the alterations on her own, is from Gettysburg, Penn., but transferred to
Western to major in design, merchandising and textiles. She left Western in 2007.
She said she decided to open Just My Fit because she longed to do something she felt passionate about, so she left her job as a waitress at a local restaurant and be-gan to plan for her own al-terations business.
Just My Fit caters to stu-dents’ needs, she said. The most popular services for students are jean hemming and changing the cut of a pair of jeans.
Hemming a pair of jeans costs $12 and taking in a pair costs from $15 to $20, depending on the amount of tailoring needed, Hunts-berry said. Just My Fit also
By WHITNEY [email protected]
SEE TOWN, PAGE 6
TOWNourJust My Fitalterations and design shop 916 ½ State Streetjustmyfit.square-space.com
Our Town is a series that highlights Bowling Green businesses that appeal to students..
Keep off the grass
By MICHELLE [email protected]
One Western tailgating tradition will be missing before the Oct. 10 football game against Florida In-ternational: the rows of vehicles parked on grassy areas.
Officials announced Thursday that tailgaters can’t park on campus lawns anymore and cited protect-ing lawns and trees as the reason for the decision.
Tailgating on the lawns is still allowed in pop-up tents, said How-ard Bailey, vice president for Stu-dent Affairs. Tailgaters in parking lots can use up to three parking spaces but can’t block driving lanes.
“Tailgating on major campuses is primarily done on hard-surface park-ing lots,” Bailey said. “Parking lots are made for park-ing cars.”
Western spends about $20,000 each year repairing grass, trees and sidewalks after tailgating dam-age, Campus Services Manager Greg Fear said.
But tailgating at the Western-Central Arkansas game alone caused $10,000 to $12,000 in dam-age to grass and soil, Fear said.
“Usually we can go the whole season with all the games and just have to replace the sod in the win-ter or spring,” he said. “It’s gotten that bad maybe once.”
Heavy rainfall and increased at-tendance caused the extra damage, he said.
More people have started at-tending games and tailgating par-tially because of the team’s move to the Football Bowl Subdivision, said Todd Stewart, associate ath-letic director for communications. More people equals more damage to traditional tailgating areas.
Western has plenty of parking, so people shouldn’t be discouraged from tailgating, he said.
“People will be able to enjoy everything they were able to enjoy before,” Stewart said.
MARY POWERS/HERALD
Western graduate and business owner Erin Huntsberry of Bowling Green measures a garment at Just My Fit, an alteration shop she operates from her apartment downtown. Huntsberry has been sewing since she was 8 years old.
Former student finds fit in Bowling Green
MORGAN WALKER/HERALD
Madisonville freshman Chelsea Dickerson practices for the Western performance of “13 Dirt Floor Cathedral Dances” hours before the show on Wednesday. Volunteers were trained by the Lubberland National Dance Company the day of the show. “Everyone involved in theater got an e-mail about it,” she said. “We’ve been here practicing since 2.”
Evolving. Challenging. Protesting.That’s how Maura Gahan described
the Bread and Puppet Theatre, whose Lubberland National Dance Company presented its new show in Gordon Wil-son Hall Wednesday.
The group, based in Glover, Vt., contacted Western about getting stu-
dent volunteers to learn the dances and perform them — all in one day.
“You don’t have to be trained or come from a specific background,” said Gahan, a touring member of the dance company. “You just come together and use your bodies as voices, and that’s pretty amazing.”
Bread and Puppet Theatre was founded during the Vietnam War, when the group organized anti-war protests
in New York. They serve bread to the audience after each performance and believe art should be as central to peo-ple’s lives as bread, Gahan said.
“They asked for at least 10 volunteers, and got well over that,” said Emily Wilcox, a senior art major from Louisville who organized the event. “We’re really happy about how many people participated.”
By KATHERINE [email protected]
By COLLEEN [email protected]
WKU outgrows state schools10-YEAR GROWTH IN
UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT
Source: Council on Postsecondary Education Comprehensive Data Base
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SEE GROWS, PAGE 3
Daily Bread
SEE BREAD, PAGE 6
Traveling theater group makes stop at Western
Officials ban parking on lawns on game day
Check online for a map oftailgating changes
FOOTBALL:DOYLE A TOP TARGET
SPORTS
SEE GRASS, PAGE 6
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The Student Government Association is working to fi ll vacant senate seats after three senators left their posts.
At Tuesday’s SGA meet-ing, Louisville senior Michel Stephens, Lexington sopho-more Daniel Shaw and Bowl-ing Green sophomore Emmett Stephens resigned from their student senator positions.
Stephens said SGA Presi-dent Kevin Smiley’s decision to choose Lexington senior Greg Capillo as SGA’s repre-sentative on the Student Pub-lications Committee played a role in his resignation.
The Student Publications Committee has responsibilities such as choosing the Herald and Talisman editors-in-chief.
Three SGA senators resignBy SHAKIA [email protected]
Bowling Green and West-ern’s mail processing could move out of the city, which local offi cials say might cre-ate delays in mail delivery.
The United States Postal Service is conducting a study to determine whether or not to move mail processing opera-tions from Scottsville Road in Bowling Green to a Nashville processing plant.
Denny Palmer, a Bowl-ing Green postal worker and American Postal Workers Union member, asked for city commissioners’ support in keeping the facility operating during Tuesday’s city com-mission meeting.
By BILLY [email protected]
BG postal servicesmay move
SEE POSTAL, PAGE 5
SEE SGA, PAGE 6
Campus adapts to fl u season
This year’s fl u season prompted Health Services to make some changes.
With an increase in ill-nesses and a heavier fl u season caused by the spread of swine fl u, Health Services is taking on additional staff and operat-ing hours this semester to ac-commodate patients, said Terri Cunningham, marketing coor-dinator for Health Services.
There’s normally an in-crease in illness this time of year compared to others because it’s fl u season, Cun-ningham said.
By TARA [email protected]
Dillon Orison made the switch from a Win-dows PC to a Macintosh laptop this summer.
And the Killeen, Texas sophomore claims he’s never going back.
Orison, the proud owner of a MacBook Pro, is a graphic design major. He said the switch seemed somewhat backward at fi rst, but within a week, he was hooked.
Macs are extremely user-friend-ly, Orison said.
“They want to do everything for you,” he said. “That’s just how Ap-ple develops their stuff.”
Orison isn’t alone in his satisfac-tion with Apple products.
Even in an economic recession, the company reported its most prof-itable quarter ever this week, with a net quarterly profi t of $1.67 bil-lion, according to an Apple news release.
In this past quarter, which ended Sept. 26, Apple sold about 3 million Mac computers, 10.2 million iPods and 7.4 million iPhones, according to the release.
Goshen junior Justin Wuetcher said he wasn’t surprised Apple’s profi ts were so high.
By EMILY [email protected]
SEE FLU, PAGE 3
FRI. 67˚/ 48˚
SAT. 54˚/ 39˚
SUN. 63˚/ 44˚
MON. 65˚/ 44˚
BIGGER.BADDER.REDEFINED.
VOLLEYBALL | SPORTS
JENNIFER DOOPER'S COLUMN
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Apple posts record quarterly profi t, unveils and updates products
Microsoft launches Windows 7 with upgraded user interface
Apple■ Announced
releases or updates on three of its
products, including the Magic Mouse and the updated MacBook laptop.
■ The Magic Mouse, the latest of Apple’s touch-
enabled products, is a wireless mouse with laser tracking
and an internal chip that “won’t confuse
a scroll with a swipe.”
Source: Apple Web site
Louisville junior Kat Michael is a PC. She al-ways has been and always will be.
“I grew up using PCs, and I fi nd them a lot easier to work with,” Michael said. “They are just something that I know.”
Her operating system of choice is Microsoft Windows Vista.
“Everybody knocks Vista, but I’ve fi gured it out, and I like it,” Michael said.
A light-hearted Mac versus PC war has infi ltrated advertising media. Apple produced several commercials portraying Macs as a young, modern professional and PCs as an older, geeky business-man.
Microsoft responded with docu-mentary-style commercials featur-ing people shopping for a comput-er. Many refer to Macs as sleek but too expensive as they walk away with a new PC.
As an English major, Michael uses her laptop constantly. Typ-ing papers on Vista’s word proces-sor has become second nature to her and she says she can’t get her “head around the Mac stuff.”
Microsoft■ Launched Win-dows 7 Oct. 20.■ Several upgrades were made to the user interface, such as new themes, improved gadget management and log-on screen customization. ■ Improvements were also made to the start menu and taskbar, such as tweaked search boxes and previews.
Source: Windows Web site
By NOAH [email protected]
SEE APPLE, PAGE 5 SEE MICROSOFT, PAGE 5
KEVIN SMILEYSGA president
BOB OWENvice president for info. tech.
BARBARABURCHprovost
PC“Control F is way better than fl ower F — let’s just face it.”
MAC“It does what I want it to do, and I’ve just stayed with Mac — it just works for me.”
PC“I’m not anti-Mac — I use PCs because that’s just what I’m most familiar with.”
ARE YOU A MAC OR A PC?
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