Greg Wiegand

On Saturday, Jill and I went down to Bowling Green, KY to tour the Western Kentucky University  campus. WKU is my alma mater having gone to graduate and undergraduate school.

I was impressed with the number of new construction projects currently underway as well as several brand new buildings that were built since I was last down there. It was homecoming and the campus was all decorated and there were many people tailgating for the football game. Lots of floats lined up for the parade (humm, I don’t remember having floats and a parade when I was in school, but maybe I just missed it.)

News things since I was last there about 3 years ago:

• New Mass Media building
• New dorms
• New parking structure between Diddle arena and football stadium
• New extension to football stadium adding visitor stadium seating and end zone enclosure
• New construction around Planetarium
• Several streets closed and turned into sidewalks and common areas (like areas between North Hall, Grise Hall and South Hall and in front of the University Center)
• Swimming coach’s house and surrounding neighborhood demolish for more construction (this was sad to see)

I’ve created a gallery of images from the trip. Take a look.