Faggot. Nigger. Beaner. Dyke. Chink. Gook. Whore. Raghead. Cripple. It. Consider your skin color. Consider your heritage. Consider your gender identity/expression. Consider your sexual orientation. Consider your national origin. Consider your religion. Consider any and everything that sets you apart from what is established as “normal.” This week has kicked […]
Author: Kayla Lynch
Hanging Up Their Stories to Dry
On September 24-27th, the entire UC Lawn will be covered with the criss-crossing of clotheslines with colorful, decorative shirts hanging from them. Unfortunately, it won’t be a joyful event. For each red or pink shirt displayed, it symbolizes a woman who has survived rape or sexual assault. For each yellow […]
Cooked: Southern Style
Southern cuisine is known for serving big meals and frying anything. Each area in the South has some unique way of preparing a dish or creating something that is native to that area. Then there is the cuisine that is altogether weird and just plain out there. The first food […]
Getting Crafty
If there is one thing that the south is known for, other than good home cooking, it is our crafts. Whether it is quilting, basket weaving, pottery or even candle making, the craftsmen/women of the South know the value of handmade products. “It’s a lot of hard work, but it […]
Volleyball team dominates UNC-Asheville Volleyball Classic
The Western Carolina volleyball team traveled to Asheville on August 31 to take part in the two-day UNC-Asheville Volleyball Classic. With their first wins of the year, the team dominated the event, sweeping UNCA and USC Upstate three games to none and beating Kennesaw State three games to one. The […]
Cross Country Teams Defend Home Turf in Opening Meet
The Western Carolina men’s and women’s cross country teams opened their season on August 31st at home in the Western Carolina Invitational. Both teams defended home-field advantage well as the women won on their side and the men finished third. Both teams had to deal with harsh weather conditions. Rain, […]
Volleyball team falls at home 3-1 to Gardner Webb
After the Georgia Tech Classic, the Western volleyball team came back home for a match against Gardner Webb on September 11. The Cats fought valiantly but lost three games to one. Western started off the match horribly as they lost game one by a score of 30-19, but the Cats […]
Volleyball team swept at Georgia Tech Classic
On September 7, the Western Carolina volleyball team played in what will probably be their most difficult tournament all year long. The Cats traveled to Atlanta for the Georgia Tech Classic and faced off with huge Division I schools Georgia Tech, Georgia, Kentucky, and Arizona. The Cats, as can probably […]
Destination: Cullowhee: High Falls
Cullowhee, there’s a problem. These days, as all days around this valley, it’s hard to walk around campus without hearing students gripe about how little there is to do around here. It’s true that we don’t have colossal malls, trendy little coffee shops serving mocha- frapa- whatever, or not even […]
Ups and downs for Catamount soccer on road trip out West
Western Carolina Soccer just concluded a road trip out west, starting the season 1-1. The Catamounts lost a tough battle against Wyoming 1-0, and routed Northern Colorado with a win 4-0. Two centuries ago, pioneers set out in covered wagons, intent to blaze a trail across the untamed wilderness of […]