If you were proactive enough to snag a ticket for WCU’s School of Stage and Screen “Reasons to Be Pretty” on opening night, then chances are you enjoyed it. Romantic songs were played before the opening, and the audience buzzed with excitement. The lights dimmed. Two actors exploded from the […]
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Hunter Library hires two new department heads
Mark A. Stoffan has joined Hunter Library as head of digital, access, and technology services, and Peter Johnson is the new head of access services. Stoffan comes to WCU from The Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he was associate director for library technology at Strozier Library for the past […]
Chancellor search committee narrows field
The 16-member search committee tasked with helping select Western Carolina University’s next chancellor met Tuesday, Feb. 15, to discuss the top candidates for the job and determine who will be invited to participate in off-campus interviews. The committee, working with the Baker and Associates executive recruitment firm and with Ann […]
Tax credit for private school costs sought by state legislators
N.C. Republican legislators are beginning to push for a law that could help pay for some North Carolina students to attend private or home schools beginning from kindergarten and going through the 12th grade. Paul Stam, of Apex, N.C., the G.O.P. leader in the state House, is behind the proposal, […]
WCU faculty and students react to Facebook cyberbullying case
A high school student recently dissed his teacher on his Facebook status and got away with it thanks to his First Amendment rights. According to the Los Angeles Times, when Donny Dunlap from California called out his biology teacher for giving too much homework on the favored networking website Facebook, […]
Volunteers needed to help with WCU’s Rivercane Restoration Project
Volunteers are being sought to help relocate rivercane from the Western Carolina University area to a site near Cherokee as part of the university’s Rivercane Restoration Project. The work to transplant the rivercane will take place in March and April as volunteers pitch in to move the plants from locations […]
SLIDESHOW – The Second City fills FPAC with laughter
Scenes from The Second City’s comedy performance at the Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011.
VIDEO – Heavy snow creates skiing opportunities
A January snow storm that shut down Western Carolina University for two days to start the spring semester meant big business for a Western North Carolina ski slope.
Western Carolinian now offering subscriptions
The Western Carolinian has started to do what some of their counterparts are considering not doing anymore: offer subscriptions. Though many newspapers across the country are seeing a decline in circulation, Justin Caudell, the Western Carolinian’s editor-in-chief, believes there is a market for his newspaper. “We have had a lot […]
Cases of the flu spike on campus
It is the height of the flu season again, and Western Carolina University’s Health Center is patching up those who are already sick and helping those who are well to stay that way. As of Jan. 31, the Health Center has seen 122 students with influenza like illness according to […]
