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Interviews with news makers and discussion of topics important to Southwest Michigan. Subscribe to the podcast through Apple itunes and Google. Segments of interview are heard in WestSouthwest Brief during Morning Edition and All Things Considered

WestSouthwest April 20, 2015

LGBT Student Services/Office of Diversity and Inclusion

On WestSouthwest, Lavender Graduation at Western Michigan University and an assessment of the War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 

  

Western Michigan University's commencement ceremonies are scheduled for early May. For the third straight year, additional graduation ceremony is being held for LGBT students. Tara Gish works in Online Education at Western and is part of the planning committee for this year's "Lavender Graduation." 

Jelena Subotic is originally from Serbia and has written extensively about the War Crimes Tribunal launched in 1993 to try those responsible for genocide in the former Yugoslavia. That includes the book Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans. Subotic speaks at Western Michigan University on Tuesday. 

Gordon Evans became WMUK's Content Director in 2019 after more than 20 years as an anchor, host and reporter. A 1990 graduate of Michigan State, he began work at WMUK in 1996.
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