Though many WCU students use the University's on-campus meal plan or eat at the many dining locations on campus, few know much information about the company that manages our dining services. Aramark has been West Chester University's food services provider for the past 19 years, and is closing in on the end of their renewed contract.
Talks and rumors about the new Recreation Center for West Chester University have been circulating for a while, and it is finally coming together. This project has been yanked around and changed so many times that it has become difficult to fully understand the situation.
Two guests from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum spoke to West Chester University students on Thursday, November 13, regarding a unique perspective into the prosecution of Nazi war crimes. Drs. Jürgen Matthäus and Patricia Heberer, the authors of the recently published "Atrocities on Trial" shared with the audience a few rarely studied instances of Nazi criminals being put on trial.
As thousands gather in cities across the nation Saturday to protest the passage of Proposition 8, a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, some are asking, "Where were all these people a few weeks ago?" After all, so many fired-up advocates of the right to same-sex marriage could have proved a powerful grass-roots army to knock on doors, work phone banks and get out the vote against Prop.
As part of the University's Co-Curricular program, Student Services hosted a Contemporary Issues Film last Monday, during two showings of "Mozart and the Whale." The film is a 2005 fiction film inspired by the meeting of two Asperger's patients, Jerry Newport and Mary Meinel (now Mary Newport).