After upsetting Furman, the WCU volleyball team had two final matches to show they belong in the eight-team SoCon tournament. Instead of qualifying, the Cats quietly finished out the 2007 season with two losses. The first loss of the weekend came on Saturday against Elon. The Cats would fall 3-0 […]
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Knocked Up Wins Our Outhouse Award for a Reason
It’s funny, it’s gross, and it’s disrespectful; that’s why Knocked Up is one of the best movies of 2007. How could anyone not like this film? To fully appreciate the humor of Knocked Up, you have to know a lot about the cast and the director. The majority of the […]
Catamounts go 1-2 in season opening tournament
The Western Carolina Catamounts went 1-2 in the Peggy Cronin Classic in Cincinnati, giving the Catamount fans a sense of pride and a feeling of winning, something they have not felt for a long time following the disastrous football season. In the tournament opener, the Catamounts defeated the Bowling Green […]
Campaign Rundown – 2007 Part Deux:
Politicians are scum, all of them, without exception. Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Independents, Liberals and Conservatives, anyone in politics should be shunned. They should be captured in the middle of the night by men in full riot gear, beaten with clubs, stripped of their United States citizenry and dropped (from orbit, […]
App keeps jug in Boone again, thrashing the Cats 79-35
After Saturday’s 79-35 thrashing of the Western Carolina Catamounts, it is apparent that the Appalachian State Mountaineers like to do things in sets of three. The win over WCU was their third straight and it moves the Mountaineers closer to winning at least a share of their third consecutive Southern […]
IT Resources for Students
The C.R.I.B. (Computer Resource and Information Bureau)The C.R.I.B. is now located in the Cat’s Den (formally Brown Cafeteria) and is open daily from 5:00pm – 10:00pm. At the C.R.I.B. you can get the same technical support you have received in the past, but you can now get one-on-one assistance at […]
Catamounts Lose Season Finale to Furman, 52-21
The Catamount football season ended the same way as it began-with a whoopin’ on television. The Cats fell 52-21 in their season finale to the Furman Paladins at E.J. Whitmire Stadium in Cullowhee. The Cats worst season since 1958 is finally over, as they finish the season with a 1-10 […]
NOW Gallery
There are lots of perks about living on this side of the mountains, killer views around the corner of every trail, friendly folks always waiving as they pass by, and a wide array of outdoor activities awaiting in your own backyard but WCU graduate Lesley Fries decided there was still […]
Potential Replacements for the Catamount Football Program
The Western Carolina football program is in the process of rebuilding their football program and they made their first step in doing so on Monday Nov. 12 when Athletic Director Chip Smith announced that Kent Briggs and his staff will be relieved of their duties following the Nov. 17 season […]
Wildfires heat up 2007 and leave the country covered in a cloud of smoke
Though fires are not incredibly uncommon, non-arson-induced wildfires in 2007 burned more violently, especially in the West. Destroying over a million acres of public, residential, and agricultural land, the fires were impossible to avoid and almost as difficult to extinguish. Most of us were aware of the Southern California fires […]
