Western Today for Tuesday, Sept. 22

Summer travels, continued

Daniel Boxberger (Anthropology) and Cheryl Danielsen (Print and Copy Services), completed the 192-mile Coast to Coast walk across England, from St. Bees to Robin Hoods Bay, from Aug. 21 to Sept 2. How did you spend your summer? Write us and let us know, and include a picture if you can, at news@wwu.edu!

New Web-based Western Today debuts tomorrow!

The new Web-based version of Western Today debuts tomorrow! As always, you will receive a morning e-mail; this new system will have teaser content in the e-mail and a link to the new Western Today site. The new site will feature external links to stories about Western, embedded video, internally produced features and profiles, a new searchable Knowledge Bank of archived stories from the past three years, and more.

New edition of Tim Wynn's 'Desk Notes' is out

The newest edition of Tim Wynn's campus construction updates, "Desk Notes," is now online here. Check it out for all the news about ongoing and upcoming projects around campus.

The Bellingham Herald

Environmental testing under way at GP site
Crews are drilling test wells and removing soil from the former Georgia-Pacific West Inc. property through Oct. 5 to determine the extent of environmental cleanup required on the waterfront site.
The $500,000 sampling project is on 64 acres owned primarily by the Port of Bellingham, which bought them in 2005 as part of redevelopment plans for the waterfront. The state of Washington owns other parts of the site.
Men's soccer: Vikes continue early season slide
The Western Washington University men's soccer team dropped its second straight game on Saturday, Feb. 19, losing 3-2 to Simon Fraser in a non-conference game at Orca Field.
The Vikings (3-5) got goals from Gibson Bardsley and Matt Fishbauger, but still lost for the fourth time in their past five games.

The Seattle Times

Students, parents caught in the college arms race
Colleges are like the cookie monster.
They seek and devour every resource in sight, with few constraints and even less restraint. At least that's how Ronald Ehrenberg describes it when explaining the big question on the minds of so many parents:
Why does college cost so much?

WWU News Releases

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