Friday, October 31, 2025
Topper Fall Fest celebrates firsts
Students came together Thursday evening to celebrate broken barriers with pumpkin carving and painting, tote bag painting, music and pizza.
The First-Generation Student Association held its inaugural FirstToppers Fall Fest to build community and empower students on their paths to higher achievement.
Sandy Cruz, Vice President of FGSA, said she and President Camden Haga founded the group as a new way to help connect first-generation students.
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Students gather in DSU Nite Class for the First Gen Fall Fest on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025 (Jonah Savage)
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(FILE PHOTO) 2024’s Día de Muertos community ofrenda crafted by the Kentucky Folklife Program in partnership with The Kentucky Museum and The WKU Department of Society, Culture, Crime and Justice Studies is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a m to 4 p m at the Kentucky Museum until Saturday, Nov 2 (Gabriel Milby)
A colorful ofrenda of skulls, offerings and photos has taken up the corner of the Mahurin Honors College/International Center second-floor balcony.
The Department of Modern Languages set up the ofrenda in honor of Day of the Dead, a holiday celebrated throughout Latin America. The ofrenda is meant not only to remember dead loved ones in a public way, but also to allow WKU students to interact and learn about the culture.
Day of the Dead, celebrated on the first and second of November, is a holiday that honors those who have passed away and celebrates their lives through rituals and offerings.
Rocky Horror returns to the Capitol Theater for Halloween
(FILE PHOTO) The cast works backstage
The Rocky Horror Picture Show will have a shadow cast showing at the Capitol Theater on October 31.
Rocky Horror is a cult classic horror comedy musical that follows newlyweds Brad and Janet as they come across a strange castle and its even stranger inhabitants. The movie touches on themes of sexual identity and exploration, love and otherness.
The Capitol’s showing will feature a shadow cast, a group of actors that act out the movie as it occurs, made up of members of WKU’s chapter of the Alpha Psi Omega theater fraternity. This is the second year APO has done a shadow cast since COVID-19.
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Halloween night during the Capitol Theater’s annual showing of cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Oct 31, 2018 Director Kelsey noted, “[the cast] auditioned 35 days ago but now look like completely different actors on stage. I couldn’t be more proud.”
WKU Volleyball travels to Middle Tennessee State this weekend for a two-game series Friday and Saturday.
The Hilltoppers split last weekend against UTEP. The loss was the Hilltoppers’ first in CUSA play in six years.
Sophomore Outside Hitter Faith Young has been the anchor for WKU. She leads the team in service aces with 26, and is second in kills with 201.
Read more by Peyton Reid and Morgan Larkins
WKU Symphony to celebrate ‘The American Spirit’
The WKU Symphony will perform a selection of four all-American pieces, celebrating the history of American concert music.
The performance, entitled “The American Spirit,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Van Meter Hall, conducted by Brian St. John, professor of music and director of orchestras at WKU.
The ensemble will be joined by featured guest John Cipolla, university distinguished professor of clarinet
Western Kentucky University volleyball plays Sam Houston in E A Diddle Arena on Friday, Oct 17, 2025 (Jonah Savage)
(FILE PHOTO) The WKU Symphony performs Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 in D Minor at the “Fall Classics” concert in Van Meter Hall on Friday, Sept 19, 2025 (Jacob Sebastian)
and saxophone, to perform Aaron Copland’s “Clarinet Concerto,” which was originally composed for clarinetist Benny Goodman.
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Ep. 3 — Addisyn Hartman of the NMSU Round Up
This episode, Football Reporter Austin Rice talks with Sports Reporter Addisyn Hartman about the upcoming Football game between WKU and New Mexico State University.
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