Western Carolina Stage Company, the newly formed summer theatre troupe at Western Carolina University, will hold open auditions for an original musical comedy that will run at Western before traveling to New York City for FringeNYC, the seventh annual New York International Fringe Festival. Titled “Mother Divine,” the play was […]

Western Carolina University will offer a special graduate-level environmental health course this summer covering the timely issues of biosafety and bioterrorism. The course, “Biosafety, Bioterrorism and Public Health,” will be taught by Burton Ogle, a new faculty member in Western’s program in environmental health. It will be offered as a […]

(www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/print/20010809-1.html) Embryonic stem cells- Embryonic stem cells, which come from the inner cell mass of a human embryo, have the potential to develop into all or nearly all of the tissues in the body. The scientific term for this characteristic is “pluripotentiality.” Adult stem cells- Adult stem cells are unspecialized, […]

A musical comedy penned by Laurel Vartabedian, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts at Western Carolina University, has been accepted for FringeNYC, the seventh annual New York International Fringe Festival. Often called the largest multi-arts festival in North America, Fringe NYC attracted some 48,000 people last year. Vartabedian’s play, […]

Reclaiming Democracy!——————————————————————————– NOW with Bill Moyers to cover Rolling Thunder Asheville A team from “NOW with Bill Moyers” will be in Asheville all weekend to cover the entire Rolling Thunder event for future broadcast on this PBS news show. Check out their website at http://www.pbs.org/now/.——————————————————————————– Schedule of events Music, poetry, […]

Michael Davis, Online EditorContact by email: wc@wcu.edu_________________________________________________ Do you write? Do you like sports? Would you like to get paid writing about sports? Are you motivated? Do you get things done, or just talk about? The Western Carolinian is now accepting applications for sports writers and editors for Fall 2003 […]

Ever since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, people everywhere have questioned the morals and ethics of creating living creatures from non-living things. This novel was very controversial as Shelley was way ahead of her time. Such attempts at playing God created more bad than good in this story, as […]

The idea of human stem cell cloning has proponents inciting images of pop cult icons like Frankenstein and ranting Michael Stipe lyrics claiming, “It’s the end of the world as we know it.” Perhaps we are too close on the heels of “Attack of the Clones” for people to distance […]

On Friday and Saturday, June 20 – 21, the CulloWHEE! Artsfest will fill WCU campus with live jazz, blues and adult contemporary music. Though not released yet, this year’s headliners are promised to match those of last year’s Artsfest. The festival will also offer a fine arts exhibit where purchases […]