By Cory SpaughSports Writer (Editors Note: The following is the second and final part of a series where Western Carolinian sports writer Cory Spaugh gathers opinions on the new turf at E.J. Whitmire Stadium/Bob Waters Field) Eight years since the last makeover, the Catamounts unveiled a new playing surface at […]
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Mercer Re-Elected As International Honor Society President
150 college representatives from across the United States and overseas, have re-elected Gordon E. Mercer to another three-year term as the Pi Gamma Mu president. Since 1924, Pi Gamma Mu has been aimed at the top social science students. Their goal is to immerse the students in thought provoking and […]
Delta Sigma Phi Organizes Breakfast With Santa
Santa was the guest of honor during a recent pancake breakfast at Western Carolina University, where children and families played at holiday-themed arts-and-crafts tables with WCU fraternity and sorority members. WCU’s chapter of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity organized the fundraising event to benefit the American Red Cross and the Families […]
Active Citizenship Class Helps “Shop With Cops” Program
Sgt. Johnny Hollifield of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office recently presented a certificate of appreciation to students from Fred Fisher’s “Active Citizenship” class. The students raised $676.24 for the Jackson County “Shops with Cops” program as part of a community-based service-learning project. The program’s mission is to work with local […]
It’s Almost Kinetic
The lights are low. Its three hours till midnight at O’Malley’s Pub and Grill. The Band is set up on the stage at the newly completed patio. Friends sit at round metal tables enjoying rounds and catching up with each other on a relaxing Friday evening. Fresh off of their […]
Jackson County Greenways Project
The Jackson County Recreation and Parks Department is teaming up with the Greenways Commission to improve our community by creating “green corridors” along HWY 107 and around the campus of Western Carolina University. The greenway for Jackson County is expected to begin at the intersection of HWY 107 and Old […]
Schoon Named Dean of College of Education and Allied Professions
Perry L. Schoon, senior associate dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the next dean of the College of Education and Allied Professions at Western Carolina University. Schoon’s appointment, effective June 1, 2009, comes after a nearly yearlong nationwide search. Schoon, who also […]
Freedom Of Choice Act Stirs Controversy
As the countdown continues until President-Elect Barack Obama officially takes office on January 20th, millions of Americans are waiting for the change that Obama has been promising. But there is one change that opponents of abortion are not so ready to embrace. During a speech addressed to Planned Parenthood on […]
Kill Your TV
These are trying times indeed. The economy is falling to pieces, our country is embroiled in a seemingly endless conflict in the middle east, and the presidential election looms over our collective heads like a death sentence. A wise man once said that the way to kill seriousness is with […]
Blacksmithing Stands The Dawn Of Time
There are very few things that have survived for thousands of years. However, blacksmithing, whether out of necessity, or for purely crafty tradition, has endured the long passage of changing times. John Allen Davidson, Jr. states in his book, Blacksmithing in Western North Carolina: “The blacksmith touched all parts of […]
