Hailey LeRoy (she/he/they) is a campus news reporter for The Front. She is a third-year environmental journalism major. Outside of the newsroom, you can find her skating with the Bellingham Roller Betties, singing choral music, or perfecting elaborate eyeshadow looks. You can reach them at haileyleroy.thefront@gmail.com.
A Western theater student placed second nationally while competing for an acting scholarship at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Western Academic Workers United has set a strike deadline of Wednesday, May 28. If Western Washington University administration does not meet the union’s demands, including bargaining rights, the student union’s operational student employees will begin picketing that morning.
A cloud of uncertainty hangs over Western Libraries. Since university President Sabah Randhawa shared updates on Western’s financial deficit, Western Libraries’ administration has reallocated staffing resources, decreasing its offered services and shutting its doors every Saturday.
Western Washington University’s new campus safety app, Western Safe, has reached over 850 downloads.
Around 150 student workers and supporters gathered in Red Square at noon for International Workers’ Day on May 1. They marched to Old Main in support of Western Academic Workers United (WAWU) and its operational student employees' battle for union recognition by Western Washington University’s administration.
About 50 resident advisors, lifeguards and other operational student employees from Western Washington University’s Western Academic Workers United gathered in a town hall meeting on Thursday, April 24, to discuss the union’s upcoming strike authorization vote, which will run from May 6 to 9.
The Wonderz Market will end its season on Saturday, Oct. 28, lining Commercial Street with Bellingham small businesses, artists and tattooists.
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