Each Thursday, WKU’s Student Chapter of NPPA brings you some of the best images of the past week taken by our very own classmates. To submit for our weekly posts, you must currently be a WKU Photojournalism student and have taken the images or produced the video within the last week (Tuesday to Tuesday). Send your top 1-3 selections to wkunppa@gmail.com by our Tuesday 7:00pm deadline and our officers and attendees will pick the best of the bunch to showcase at our open meetings every Tuesday at 7:30pm in Lab 127.
Rosalino Santiago Garcia, 32 of Santa Ana, Oaxaca, Mexico, gives his son, Leandro, 5, a shoulder-ride home on November 5, 2014. Garcia is taking two weeks off of work from the Kentucky tobacco harvest, returning home to accompany his pregnant wife who is due to have his third child anytime. NICK WAGNER
Nurses prepare Steven Curry, 19, of Bowling Green, Ky. for an EKG to measure the electrical current of his heart, Nov. 4. “I hate my body because they can’t solve it. They can’t help me at all,” Curry said. KATIE ROBERTS
A participant in the 2014 Homecoming Step Show steps into a sliver of light moments before steeping onto the stage and performing. Four WKU chapters were represented at the event, which was held in Diddle Arena, but most Greek chapters arrived from surrounding universities. LUKE FRANKE
Junior running back Leon Allen (33) is lifted in the air by his teammates after sealing the Hilltopper’s win with a fourth quarter touchdown making the score 35-27 during WKU’s homecoming victory over UTEP, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, at L.T. Smith – Houchens Industries Stadium in Bowling Green, Ky. Allen had 136 total offensive yards in the game and two touchdowns. MIKE CLARK
Jamie and Rebecca Adams Simpson hold each other as the results from the last precincts come in during Rebecca’s Family Court Judge election result party at Lost River Cave on Nov. 4, 2014. Rebecca Adams Simpson ultimately lost to her opponent, David Lanphear. ADAM WOLFFBRANDT
Left: Cecile Garmon, a communications professor at WKU, poses for a portrait in her red Liz Claiborne glasses. Garmon has been a professor since the 1980’s and has sported her collection of colored glasses since the 80’s as well. She has colors from orange to green and says she wishes she would have bought every color when Liz Claiborne came out with the glasses in the 80’s. “I love Homecoming, but it isn’t as much fun as coming to class everyday,” Garmon said.
Right: WKU cheerleader’s pom-poms rest on the sidelines of L.T. Smiths Stadium during the Homecoming game on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. KATIE MEEK
Left: Jayna Kubuske, a Toledo Ohio senior and WKU Feature Twirler, clipped WKU accessories into her hair for the Homecoming celebrations at WKU on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014.
Right: Ashleé Robinson, a Nashville senior and captain of the Major Redz, leads her team in a dance routine at the Homecoming game on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. KATIE MEEK
Beau Spencer drinks beer out of another person’s shoe during the Old Boys Rugby party in Bowling Green, Ky. ALYSE YOUNG
Sumra Kanwal, a graduate student at WKU sits quietly during the WKU homecoming queen pinning ceremony. Kanwal came to the United States from Pakistan in 2013. She has become a resident assistant in Pearce Ford Tower and a member of the Pakistani Student Association. Kanwal placed top ten in the competition for homecoming queen. ALYSE YOUNG