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Friday, November 1, 2024
At first they couldn’t buy a win at home. But lately, the Lady Cats seem unstoppable in the Ramsey Center, and this weekend was no different. Western Carolina (13-14, 7-11 in SoCon) got some revenge against their mountain nemesis Appalachian State (5-22, 3-15) and closed out the regular season with […]
The results are in and the winner of the best Pay-Per-View of 2001 is WWF’s No Way Out. Yeah, I know I may seem a bit premature in my assumption. For those of you that didn’t see last Sunday’s PPV, however, I suggest that you save your money to purchase […]
The Western Carolina women’s basketball squad will enter this week’s Southern Conference tournament winning five of their last seven conference match-ups, including the final three in a row. This late-season surge has earned the Lady Cats (13-14, 7-11) a fifth seed, the highest for a WCU women’s team since the […]
The Western Carolina baseball team traveled to Myrtle Beach, SC, this weekend to compete in the Baseball at the Beach Tournament at Coastal Federal Field. They won two of their three games in the pre-conference season event. WCU kicked off the weekend by defeating Kent State and ended with a […]
In Jackson County Superior Court on Monday, a former WCU student was sentenced after pleading guilty to the murder of her newborn child. Christina Marie Fiske, 22, was sentenced to a minimum of 94 to a maximum of 122 months in prison after entering into a plea agreement. Fiske had […]
A WCU student remains listed in critical but stable condition at an Asheville hospital after falling off a wall at a fraternity house early Saturday morning. Andrew Thomas Carter, 19, fell off a 10-foot wall beside a sunken driveway leading to a room on the lower level of the Sigma […]
With educational issues on their minds, a busload of WCU students traveled to Raleigh on Tuesday, February 20, to lobby the North Carolina legislation. About 60 WCU students boarded a bus at 6:45 am to make the five-hour trip to the state capital. Fourteen other universities in the UNC system […]
The groundbreaking ceremony for the new fine arts center will commence at 9:15am on Wednesday, March 8. It will be held at the future site of the building where the old intramural fields used to be. Many members of the board of trustees will be there. In attendance will be […]
The Western Carolina University Concert Band, conducted by Kenneth Kroesche, assistant professor of music, will perform a concert on Wednesday, March 7. The 8pm performance will take place in the recital hall of the Coulter Building. The concert is free and open to the public. Bradley Ulrich, associate professor of […]
The media spotlight first shone on former WCU student Derek Anderson after his father, mother, brother, and cocker spaniel mysteriously disappeared after leaving their home in Helenville, WI, for a fishing trip to a family cabin. Six days later, Anderson, who legally changed his name from Andrew Krnak, reported his […]
