Disputes among students can be an all-too-common problem on campus. The Campus Mediation Program (CMP), which was created last year, will help resolve disputes between students and help the parties reach an agreement. According to College of Business Professor Jayne Zanglein: “Mediation is an informal process in which an impartial […]

New York band Interpol’s latest release Our Love to Admire is the band’s latest attempt at crafting their black-and-white, cigarette-fused, avant garde rock formula. After the success of the band’s two previous albums, Turn off the Bright Lights and Antics, where is there to go? Regardless of opinion, Interpol’s established […]

Blam blam blam. The movie opens with Clive Owen (playing the same character he plays in Sin City, more or less) sitting on a bench and staring into the camera. He takes a bite of a carrot, then a sip of coffee. A pregnant woman runs past screaming, followed by […]

Do we have to talk about it? Can I just say stupid things, grow facial hair, make poop jokes, and eat bacon? See, if I had a bad day I’d really just like to lie on the couch, pour the chips directly on to my stomach, turn on ESPN and […]

In light of the new movie, I decided dig deep into my book shelf and dust off an copy of The Nanny Diaries to review. The Nanny Diaries tells a story that most teenagers and young adults know all too well. It is a story of young girl, in college […]

Boys Don’t Cry is a powerful true story about a transgender man (in layman’s terms, a man trapped in a woman’s body), Brandon Teena, who was brutally raped and murdered after his biological sex was discovered by John Lotter and Tom Nissen on December 30, 1993 in Falls City, Nebraska. […]

You’ve probably seen a Cat-Tran once or twice in your time here at Western: one of the large, purple shuttles that are rumored to carry students from one place to another. They usually travel in packs of two or three and, if you’re lucky enough to catch one (you’re not), […]

For anyone new to the South, the first thing you’ll notice is a drastic change in dialect. It’s a known fact that there’s a distinct line between northern talk and southern talk. For those of you who need to learn a few things to get around, or for anyone who […]

Why would anyone want to live in the South? After all, so many terrible things happened here. Then again, terrible things happen everywhere. What is it about the southern states that attract people every year? For many people, the attraction is the local history. Southern states such as North Carolina, […]

Although a lot of students here at Western were born and raised in the South, there are a handful of us (from the North, obviously), who have flown south for the winter and have never left. For instance, I was born in Connecticut and moved to the North Carolina coast […]