Herald Newsletter 04-25-2025

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Fashion Inc. to showcase runway looks at White Squirrel Arts Festival

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Natalie Freidhof | News Reporter

Letter from the Editor: The First Amendment shaped my time on the Hill

Price Wilborn is the Editor-in-Chief of the Herald Photo by

Price Wilborn | Editor-in-Chief

This letter was originally published in Volume 100 Issue 4 of the College Heights Herald print newsmagazine on April 21.

When I first came to WKU, one of the only things I knew I wanted to do was write for the campus newspaper I started as a commentary writer in August 2021, where my job was to write opinion pieces I loved it because I got to write about thingsI was passionate about while trying my hand at new ways of research and reporting I then became commentary editor, serving on the editorial board, leading the opinion staff, posting letters from the editor, and writing the editorials we published as an editorial board

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OPINION: TopperFella Trade Day: a look at community, journalism and the beauty between

Freshman film production major Michael Robinson’s TopperFella collection was on display at the TopperFella Trade Day in Downing Student Union on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. According to his last count, Robinson’s collection boasts 121 TopperFellas Photo by Price Wilborn

Emma Hardesty | Commentary Writer

When I first came to WKU, I had no idea what a “TopperFella” was. I had never even seen the small, strange gray figures hidden around campus However, upon assignment for the WKU Talisman, everything changed Tali Tries: Behind the scenes of TopperFella gave me an inside look at what exactly a

Carrie Pratt

TopperFella was What started as a model the TopperFella creator printed for fun turned into a campus-wide phenomenon. Read more by Emma

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