Rosalie Johnson (she/her) is a campus life reporter for The Front this quarter. She is a second year journalism major on the news/editorial track and aims to finish a minor through Western’s Honors College. Outside of reporting, she enjoys watching new movies and exploring Bellingham with friends. You can contact her at rosaliejohnson.thefront@gmail.com.
Western’s Basic Needs Resource Navigator, Gina Ebbeling, said that the WHOLE pantry’s number of visitors has quadrupled since last academic year. Though she thinks part of that increase is awareness of the pantry and its outreach efforts, the primary driver of increased pantry use is the rise in living expenses.
As the opening night of Western Washington University’s annual fall play approaches, the cast and crew are transforming the stage into late 1940s New Orleans and painstakingly embodying the characters of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
When Western Washington University first-year Liam J. McArdle’s dad lived in Washington before moving to North Carolina, he was in a band called Incumulus with his friends. Now, Tuesday evenings on the third floor of the Viking Union, McArdle performs covers of his dad’s songs.
Food insecurity on Western’s campus is one of the main reasons students do not return to Western. The new food security fee seeks to support student needs, contributing to the WHOLE pantry’s budget to purchase food and provide a full-time position that coordinates the pantry.
Western’s Tutoring Center sees more students during the midterm season as students prepare for exams. Employee of the center and peer tutor Kate Johnson gives a behind-the-scenes look at tutoring peers in this Q&A.
Western students seek to incorporate sustainability, affordability and creativity in their costume-crafting practices. By visiting local thrift stores or using on-campus resources, designing their own costumes is friendly to their student budget and the environment.
As food insecurity at WWU rises, a new food preservation project founded by two WWU Fairhaven students' partners with the Outback Farm, the Native American Student Union, and campus food pantries through preserving food with traditional indigenous methods to nourish students.
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