Why would anyone want to live in the South? After all, so many terrible things happened here. Then again, terrible things happen everywhere. What is it about the southern states that attract people every year? For many people, the attraction is the local history. Southern states such as North Carolina, […]
Cherokee lessons
Getting Crafty
If there is one thing that the south is known for, other than good home cooking, it is our crafts. Whether it is quilting, basket weaving, pottery or even candle making, the craftsmen/women of the South know the value of handmade products. “It’s a lot of hard work, but it […]
How to Speak Southern
For anyone new to the South, the first thing you’ll notice is a drastic change in dialect. It’s a known fact that there’s a distinct line between northern talk and southern talk. For those of you who need to learn a few things to get around, or for anyone who […]
Cooked: Southern Style
Southern cuisine is known for serving big meals and frying anything. Each area in the South has some unique way of preparing a dish or creating something that is native to that area. Then there is the cuisine that is altogether weird and just plain out there. The first food […]
Teaching a Cat-Tran new tricks
You’ve probably seen a Cat-Tran once or twice in your time here at Western: one of the large, purple shuttles that are rumored to carry students from one place to another. They usually travel in packs of two or three and, if you’re lucky enough to catch one (you’re not), […]
Hanging Up Their Stories to Dry
On September 24-27th, the entire UC Lawn will be covered with the criss-crossing of clotheslines with colorful, decorative shirts hanging from them. Unfortunately, it won’t be a joyful event. For each red or pink shirt displayed, it symbolizes a woman who has survived rape or sexual assault. For each yellow […]
Are You a Boy or a Girl?
Boys Don’t Cry is a powerful true story about a transgender man (in layman’s terms, a man trapped in a woman’s body), Brandon Teena, who was brutally raped and murdered after his biological sex was discovered by John Lotter and Tom Nissen on December 30, 1993 in Falls City, Nebraska. […]
The Difficult Acceptance of Diversity
Faggot. Nigger. Beaner. Dyke. Chink. Gook. Whore. Raghead. Cripple. It. Consider your skin color. Consider your heritage. Consider your gender identity/expression. Consider your sexual orientation. Consider your national origin. Consider your religion. Consider any and everything that sets you apart from what is established as “normal.” This week has kicked […]
The Nanny Diaries By Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
In light of the new movie, I decided dig deep into my book shelf and dust off an copy of The Nanny Diaries to review. The Nanny Diaries tells a story that most teenagers and young adults know all too well. It is a story of young girl, in college […]
Sylva needs a real movie theater
So on Friday, September 8 I went to see the 4:10 showing of “Balls of Fury” at Quin Theaters in Sylva. As I left the theater, the only fury I had seen was my own, thanks to the theater’s ignorant rule that at least three people must show up for […]
