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Thursday, November 7, 2024
Conference play is here, and for the Catamount volleyball team that means that everything they have worked for in the opening tournaments has come down to this. Playing talented teams like South Carolina, Pittsburgh, Ole Miss, and Clemson has all been to prepare for the Southern Conference. In what is […]
The first play of the year, Brighton Beach Memoirs was a great success. The play was set in the late 1930’s in Brooklyn, N.Y. Eugene, played by Anthony Giordano, is a 15-year-old boy going through puberty who lives with his extended family, all under one small roof. The play showed […]
On September 13, the executive committee of Western Carolina University’s board of trustees unanimously agreed to a three-year contract extension with head football coach Kent Briggs. With this extension, Coach Briggs will get to keep building onto the Western football program and have a chance to prove that he can […]
#8220;Bienvenidos! Welcome!” Since September 15, greeters at the door of the Hispanic Heritage Month events have been warmly welcoming all who were eager to learn. With over 27 activities relating to Hispanic culture, Hispanic Heritage Month offered an event for every type of interest.This is the third year WCU celebrated […]
With soccer season in full swing and beginning the meat of their conference schedule, the Western Carolinian was able to sit down with senior goalkeeper Alesha Row and get a little background information on one of last season’s most pivotal players and literally the Lady Catamounts last line of defense. […]
Teacher and poet Taylor Mali performed his spoken word poetry Wednesday evening, September 27, as a part of Last Minute Production’s spoken word series. Mali was one of the original poets who appeared on “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry,” and appeared in the 1997 documentary film “Slam Nation.” Mali, a […]
A new game has been sweeping the nation over the last couple of years; it is called disc golf. Disc golf combines the distance of golf with the accuracy and wind factor of playing Frisbee.On Sept. 29, Western Carolina University cut the ribbon on the university’s first disc golf course. […]
Few students know about the thin red magazine called “The Gadfly.” And while it’s distributed through the Philosophy Department’s office in Stillwell, it’s not exactly heavy reading. Written and published by thoughtful students here at Western, many of them majoring in philosophy or political science, the Gadfly pokes fun at […]
Welcome to my corner of the newspaper where I do nothing but complain (as we all know I enjoy it so) about totally random and useless things. This issue’s rant is on fashion horrors: what went wrong? Now, I’m no fashion expert (nor do I ever want to be), but […]
It’s about that time of year again when seniors scramble around to get everything ready for graduation. In order to graduate, seniors have to pay application fees, make appointments with their advisors for degree audits, order caps and gowns, order announcements, and so on. For most seniors, the reality will […]
