After a stressful day most people like to relax and unwind. Some people do this by watching television, others read, some just sniff. Aromatherapy is a popular relaxation technique that can soothe the senses, calm the mind, and alleviate symptoms. The practice of using essencial oils to balance the mind […]
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The Counseling Center
Have you ever felt like you had nowhere to turn, or were so stressed out that you could barely function? The Counseling Center provides mental health services for students by means of individual, couples, and group sessions at no cost, and they have a psychiatrist available one day per week. […]
Healthy as a Hound
Dogs are really, really great. At the end of a hard day of whatever you might do, a dog will never ask anything of you that is difficult to do assuming you haven’t lost both hands in some terrible accident. A dog won’t ask you to mow the lawn or […]
The Good, the Bad, and the SoCon Tourney
The Western Carolina men’s basketball team came into the Southern Conference Tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, with no momentum and a dreaded first-round match up against Elon, a team that swept WCU in the regular season. When Western left later in the week, at the hands of Appalachian State, they […]
Violence and entertainment mixed together
If anyone has watched television lately, there are two things that viewers enjoy: reality T.V. and violence. There is one source of entertainment that takes a little bit of both and mixes it together: Sports Entertainment. One family can be synonymous with Sports Entertainment: The McMahon’s. Roderick James “Jess” McMahon […]
Music Preferences are the Newest Flavors of the Week
When most students come to college, they have musical preferences they’ve picked up from back home. Indeed, favorite bands are often a local occurrence influenced by years of listening to the hometown radio stations and going to the same live concerts. But in college, many students expand their musical tastes […]
Cook leads the way as Men’s Golf team finishes 6th at Argonaut Invitational
The Men’s Golf team, led by junior Matt Cook, finished 6th out of 15 teams at the Argonaut Invitational in Pensacola, Florida, on February 27. Western shot a team total of 881, over three days, to finish 17 strokes behind the winning team, Virginia Commonwealth. VCU shot 864 and finished […]
“Black Is Always ‘In'”
What is a Goth? In the good old days it was a Germanic tribe of barbarians that played a pivotal role in the destruction of the Roman Empire; raping, pillaging and all of that ugly business. Party people, you might say. What is a Goth now? Of course there is […]
Men’s golf team finishes 6th at Samford Invitational
The Western Carolina men’s golf team traveled to Trussville, Alabama, on March 12 looking to improve upon their 7th place finish in the Lonnie D. Small Spring Classic. Improve they did as the Catamounts went from 7th place on the first day of the invitational to finishing in 6th place. […]
Generation Us, Generation Now
#8220;You have an attitude problem.” How many times have you had people say this to you over the course of your life? Well, I suppose we can forgive them for their annoyance, at least for now. Generation Y is finally here in force, and the world is just beginning to […]
