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Womens Baseball

Hello. My name is Shawn J. Stiles and I am the President of the new Women’s Professional Baseball League Inc (WPBL). I am writing to you to ask for your help. I would like to get some publicity for our league because we are looking for players, coaches, advertisers and […]

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Stem Cell Research – AGAINST

Ever since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, people everywhere have questioned the morals and ethics of creating living creatures from non-living things. This novel was very controversial as Shelley was way ahead of her time. Such attempts at playing God created more bad than good in this story, as […]

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Stem Cell Research – FOR

The idea of human stem cell cloning has proponents inciting images of pop cult icons like Frankenstein and ranting Michael Stipe lyrics claiming, “It’s the end of the world as we know it.” Perhaps we are too close on the heels of “Attack of the Clones” for people to distance […]

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wc_news | WCU THEATRE FACULTY, STUDENTS OFF-BROADWAY BOUND IN AUGUST

A musical comedy penned by Laurel Vartabedian, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts at Western Carolina University, has been accepted for FringeNYC, the seventh annual New York International Fringe Festival. Often called the largest multi-arts festival in North America, Fringe NYC attracted some 48,000 people last year. Vartabedian’s play, […]

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Stem Cells: A White House Primer

(www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/print/20010809-1.html) Embryonic stem cells- Embryonic stem cells, which come from the inner cell mass of a human embryo, have the potential to develop into all or nearly all of the tissues in the body. The scientific term for this characteristic is “pluripotentiality.” Adult stem cells- Adult stem cells are unspecialized, […]

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wc_news | WCU OFFERS SPECIAL COURSE IN BIOSAFETY, BIOTERRORISM

Western Carolina University will offer a special graduate-level environmental health course this summer covering the timely issues of biosafety and bioterrorism. The course, “Biosafety, Bioterrorism and Public Health,” will be taught by Burton Ogle, a new faculty member in Western’s program in environmental health. It will be offered as a […]

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wc_news | WESTERN CAROLINA STAGE COMPANY ISSUES CASTING CALL

Western Carolina Stage Company, the newly formed summer theatre troupe at Western Carolina University, will hold open auditions for an original musical comedy that will run at Western before traveling to New York City for FringeNYC, the seventh annual New York International Fringe Festival. Titled “Mother Divine,” the play was […]

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wc_news | WCU SET TO LAUNCH SUMMER THEATRE

Western Carolina University’s department of communication and theatre arts and Division of Continuing Education and Summer School are ready to raise the curtain on a new summer season of theatre beginning in June. The newly formed Western Carolina Stage Company, the brainchild of veteran WCU theatre professor and director Stephen […]