CULLOWHEE-On the weekend of March 28th, Western Carolina’s men’s baseball team took two of three from UNC-Greensboro to earn their first Southern Conference series victory of the season at Childress Field/Hennon Stadium. A controversial call from the first base umpire saw senior Blake Murphy only eligible to play in two […]
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Senior Jonathan Hubler Wins Western Carolinian Bracket Contest
The first annual Western Carolinian NCAA Bracket contest concluded Monday as Kansas beat Memphis in the National Championship game. Jonathan Hubler is the winner of the contest, having picked three of four final four teams and Kansas as the National Championship. A lot of picking a bracket has to do […]
Students Making a Difference
Joel Marchesoni, Jenni Giles, Sarah Hipp, Kristi Whitehead and myself founded the WCU Green Party, formally the WCU Campus Greens, in spring of 2007. We sprang from all of ours desire to have another political party available on campus. Our “coming out” was the Wellness Fair that semester where we […]
Choosing the Bright Side
All over the United States, students attending college aim to get the best grades and get the most out of their education. Some of these students don’t have as easy a chore as others, though. Along with the stress of making the grade and the finances that college requires, a […]
Leatherheads Movie Review
George Clooney returns to the director (and actor) seat with Leatherheads, a straightforward homage to the smarmy ’20s culture and to the rise of professional football. Leatherheads stars Clooney as Jimmy “Dodge” Connolly, a guy who leads the Duluth Bulldogs, a rag-tag professional football team trying to make it big […]
New Club for Outdoor Lovers
New at Western Carolina is a club for students interested in fishing, and other outdoor activities. Cameron Street Hamrick and Jeff White brought Ducks Unlimited recently to this campus.”We’ve had an awesome turn out, everyone’s having a great time” said Hamrick.Ducks Unlimited has been a national organization since 1937. It […]
Catamounts Sweep Davidson
The Western Carolina baseball team brought the broomsticks with them in their home series sweep over conference foe Davidson April 5-7. The win brought the Catamounts to 15-15 overall and 5-4 in conference. The first game of the three game series originally set for Friday evening was postponed due to […]
Busted top 10
10 Of course, no one deserves to be the victims of theft, but Einstein’s Deli charges something like sixteen dollars for a plain bagel. I’m not saying stealing a purse full of plastic silverware and sweet and low packets is okay, I’m just saying that in terms of theft, there’s […]
Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell
Tokyo Police Club is a band based out of Ontario, Canada. Though the band delivered to expectant fans with Elephant Shell, they started out with their first EP A Lesson in Crime (Paper Bag Records) that was, in essence, the bleak-beautiful-cynical image of Blade Runner packed into a 16-minute recording. […]
New Food at WCU
Western Carolina University is currently undergoing an upgrade. One of the two structures being built on the lower campus is a new dinning facility.Mike Doppke and Rick Nicholson of Aramark, the university’s food provider, answered a few questions about the new dinning facility. The facility, which currently is unnamed, will […]
