Health & Wellness
Outdoor center expands offerings amid pandemic
By The Front | April 27By Rowan Forsythe
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Concerns raised by students of color loom as WWU’s Honors Program becomes an honors college
By Zoë Parker | April 26As Western’s Honors Program begins the transition to being called the Honors College, expected to finalize in fall 2022, honors students of color remain concerned about diversity, equity and inclusion moving forward.
Administration
Q&A with Joyce Lopes, Western’s new VP for business and financial affairs
By Zoë Parker | April 26On April 3 President Randhawa announced the hiring of Joyce Lopes as the new vice president of business and financial affairs. Lopes will assume her new role on July 1.
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Exploring Western at virtual Admitted Student Day
By Brianna Poulos | April 23Virtual Admitted Student Day is on April 17 and is being hosted via Zoom to welcome incoming freshmen, transfer students and their families to Western Washington University.
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New enrollment for fall 2021 hold stake in budget planning
By Zoë Parker | April 21The results of new student enrollment numbers for fall 2021 impact budgeting and financial prospects for the upcoming biennium. The effects of enrollment are expected to be better understood in May, as students across the country commit to colleges and universities.
City & County
Western’s newest admit: a murder hornet
By Cameron Martinez | April 21Western Washington University has become the first university in the United States to obtain an Asian giant hornet. The hornet is from a radio giveaway on Bellingham’s classic rock station 92.9 KISM.
Administration
Student trustee seat open
By Jason Upton | April 19Western Washington University’s Board of Trustees have begun their selection process for the next Student Trustee, a job crucial to having student voices heard by the university.
Campus
In a time of increased anti-Asian hate, Asian students gain new networking space
By Jacob O'Donnell | April 19Content warning: This article contains language and stories about incidents of violence and assault against racial minorities.
Health & Wellness
Western confirms COVID-19 surges contained
By Nicola Wasmuth | April 16After off-campus parties caused COVID-19 cases to surge, Western Washington University confirmed that the outbreaks have been limited after imposed quarantines.
Campus
Western women's softball success
By Lucas Bohannon | April 16Western Washington University women’s softball team has been on fire recently, winning three of their last four games. The team has taken games off some of the best teams in the conference and now stands with a record of 17-7 at the top of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
Education
What will Western’s proposed Honors College look like?
By The Front | April 13By Henrik Butz
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College budgets are a balancing act, COVID-19 has added more weight
By The Front | April 12By Lauryn Haywood
Education
Dr. Tesla Monson receives grant from the Leakey Foundation for research
By The Front | April 7By Alison Ward
People
BIPOC in mental health services: a missing piece in Bellingham
By The Front | April 5By Dia Wondimu
Environment
$30,000 goes to water quality research on the Nooksack River
By Gaia Crans | April 5Western Washington University professor of biology, David Hooper, received a $30,000 grant to conduct research on the links between policy and riparian restoration for nutrient retention in the Nooksack River watershed. He’s conducting this research along with two first-year graduate students majoring in biology, Astoria Tershy and Patrick Damaree in collaboration with Amanda Stahl, a post doctorate at Washington State University.
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For the second time, a cryptic manuscript with strange symbols, drawings and swastikas was dropped off at Viking Union
By Nate Sanford | April 3Editor’s note and content warning: This story includes discussion and opt-in access to images that include swastikas. The Western Front uses “antisemitic” instead of “anti-Semitic” in accordance with the findings of Western’s Task Force on Preventing and Responding to Antisemitism. The task force was made up of students, faculty, staff and administrators, and the report can be found here.
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Breaking: Parties still to blame as Western COVID surge reaches 67 cases
By Clay Wren | April 1Sixty-seven positive cases, including both on-campus and off-campus students, have been linked to an ongoing COVID-19 surge among Western students, according to a Western Alert sent out Thursday, April 1.
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Attorney for WWU donors pressures journalists, hosting site to remove reporting on fraud charges
By Caroline Brooks | March 29Grace Borsari and Fred Kaiser — who donated $10 million to Western Washington University for a new STEM building with their names on it — have retained an attorney in an attempt to remove public records obtained and posted by The Front during an investigation into the donors’ history of tax evasion.
