Author: Eric Newsom

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Black Theatre Ensemble Prepares For Production

Western Carolina’s Black Theatre Ensemble wants to expose everyone to the history of black entertainment like it’s never been seen before. Put down your textbooks boys and girls, this lesson is being taught this Thursday and Friday evening through the use of acting, singing and dancing and poetry reciting on […]

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Radiohead outdoes Kid A with new concert album

The Beatles recorded some of the greatest music ever made. The problem is, or rather was, that they never got a chance to try and reproduce their studio marvels live. Many Beatles songs have never been played live by the Beatles themselves because technology did not allow for songs like […]

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In Cars Shows Humor In Dysfunction

#8220;Awwww! Some of it got into my mouth!” says Beverly D’Onofrio (played by Drew Barrymore), as her son urinates up in the air while she’s changing his diaper in the new movie “Riding in Cars With Boys.” This is a perfect scene from the film to illustrate the film’s theme […]

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Student’s Penis Removed from Art Display

Charlie Harshman, a 49-year-old art student at Western Carolina University, reported his seven-foot-tall sculpture of a penis missing from the art display on the second floor of the Belk Building last Thursday. It was put back on display the same day. “I called the campus police immediately because the Art […]

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Nursing Graduates Post 95% Pass Rate

Western Carolina University’s nursing graduates have posted one of the state’s top pass rates on a professional licensure examination, according to reports issued by the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Test scores for the first nine months of 2001 indicate that 95 percent of WCU graduates who took the National […]

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WCU Seeking to Boost Cultural Tourism in WNC

Western Carolina University is taking significant new steps to boost the Western North Carolina travel and tourism industry by becoming an additional destination for visitors in search of cultural arts and heritage-based activities. That was the word Thursday, Nov. 15, from WCU Chancellor John Bardo, who opened a daylong conference […]

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Art display

Re: 11-28-01 editionThe banner line should read “Student’s Sculpture removed from Art Display”, not student’s penis removed–for obvious reasons. From a female point of view, our male and female parts have been used for sculpture since 500 BC, why not now, even if circumsized. The sculpture itself has no position […]

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Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

Yesterday a male co-worker asked me (the staff nutritionist) what I thought about the editorial recently published in the Asheville-Citizen Times on the Victoria’s Secret fashion show aired on television. Before I even started reading, he told me he thought the author had “gone too far”. With that information, I […]

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Responding to “…WCU’s Big Spending”

In response to the editorial in the Novemeber 14 edition of the Western Carolinian, I would like to agree with Mr. Sams. I, too, am completely outraged that Chancellor Bardo will spend so much money for guest speakers to visit our campus. I mean, we are talking about $65,000 here. […]

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WCU 65th Most Wired College in US

For the second consecutive year, Western Carolina University has been named one of the 100 “most wired” colleges in the nation by Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine, a national publication and guide to the World Wide Web. WCU was number 68 last year, but it has now moved up 3 places […]