WKU Student Receives Freedom
Forum-NCAA Scholarship
January 30, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - Kyle Hightower, a junior at Western Kentucky University, has been selected
as one of eight Freedom Forum-NCAA Sports Journalism Scholarship winners for the 2003-04 academic year.
Hightower, a print journalism major from Paducah, will receive a $3,000 scholarship for his senior year. His picture also will appear in the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Championship programs.
The Freedom Forum, through a grant to the NCAA, supports eight scholarships to juniors who have career goals in sports journalism and major in journalism or have experience in campus sports journalism. The program is designed to foster freedoms of speech and press while promoting quality sports journalism education at the collegiate level.
This semester Hightower is sports editor of the College Heights Herald, WKU's student newspaper. He has interned at the Paducah Sun, Lexington Herald-Leader and
Philadelphia Daily News and will be an intern next summer at the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
For more information, contact Robert Adams at (270) 745-6278. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
