City & County
What's good: Bellingham's ramen
By The Front and Erica Wilkins | January 29Every Monday this quarter, a Western Front reporter will tell you what’s good in Bellingham.
Features
People
Western student club striving for resilience
By The Front and Amalia Justiniano | January 25Western KhSA Club leaders (left to right) Irisa Sin, Erika Ey and Lance Phetkanya. // Photo by October Yates
People
Child sex trafficking close to home
By The Front and Melissa McCarthy | January 24Content warning: This article contains references to the sexual exploitation of children.
People
Western identified as a military friendly school
By The Front and Carina Andrews | January 23
People
Civil rights advocate comes to campus
By The Front and Zoe Buchli | January 19Imarisha has a slideshow with audio commentary in case you missed the presentation. // Video by Walidah Imarisha
City & County
Former Western professor helped organize MLK human rights conference
By The Front and By Julia Furukawa | January 19By Julia Furukawa
City & County
MLK Day celebration raises discussions of how to make King's dream a reality
By The Front and By Sarah Porter | January 18By Sarah Porter
People
Experts on campus give tips on how to stick to New Year’s resolutions
By The Front and Jessica Vangel | January 11It’s 2018 and students are ready to keep the New Year’s tradition of making resolutions. Sticking to goals can be hard, but experts on campus have tips on how to help.
Features
Home for the holidays
By The Front and Jacob Carver | December 12According to Western’s Office of Institutional Research, 2,129 students could be headed to their homes outside of Washington during one of the busiest times to travel during the year.
Features
Celebrating tradition
By The Front and Kristina Rivera | December 12Chanukah lasts eight days and begins on the 25th of the Hebrew calendar. This year, the holiday starts on Tuesday, Dec. 12 and ends on Wednesday, Dec. 20.
Arts & Music
Thinking outside the box
By The Front and Landon Groves | December 12When senior Matt Hoogestraat sat beneath the elegant arches and high ceilings of Seattle’s Sanctuary Ballroom, he was nervous. It was here, in the country’s oldest byzantine-style building, he’d find out whether or not Western’s senior industrial design class had won the Gray Magazine award for best student design.
Features
Redefining family
By The Front and Rachael Buselmeier | December 1For adopted students seeking a connection, Western’s Adoptees Alliance provides a safe space to gather.
Arts & Music
On repeat
By The Front and Walker Sacon | December 1A vinculum is the horizontal line often used in math to indicate an infinitely repeating number or pattern. Western art students adopted this idea in their work.
Features
Caffeine high
By The Front and Rachel Sandal | November 30What do people in the Northwest love more than anything? Coffee. Specifically, new coffee. A new shop has recently opened up and hopes to give Bellingham residents their fix.
City & County
Shopping small
By The Front , Alexis Edgar and Landon Groves | November 29When Paul Hanson and Kelly Evert got married on the Fairhaven Village Green, they bought everything local. Rings, flowers, you name it. Now, as co-owners of Village Books, they’re working to keep that tradition going.
