A recent national college health study by the National Mental Health Association shows that depression affects 19 million Americans each year. Ten percent of these are college students. Depression is more prevalent on our college campuses than ever before, with the disturbing and traumatic images of September 11 displayed every […]
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Catamount Football Wins Second Straight
Western Carolina’s defense held the University of Tennessee Chattanooga to a season-low point total and outgained them by nearly 100 yards in total offense en route to a 21-3 victory last Thursday. The win was the second in a row for the Cats and kept them in a tie for […]
PPI Holds Assembly
Several hundred WCU students, faculty, and staff participated in the Public Policy Institute’s community assembly, “Revitalizing the Spirit of WCU: Creating Participation and High Morale,” held Oct. 3 in the Grandroom of the University Center. The assembly, which was also sponsored by the Student Government Association and the Western Carolinian, […]
Student’s Uncles Near WTC
WCU freshman Mike Paolini, of New York, was awakened September 11 by his roommate who said a plane had just struck the World Trade Center. “I didn’t believe him,” said Paolini. “But my roommates kept me up, and I continued to watch the news and saw the second plane hit […]
Trustees Pass New Alcohol Policy at WCU
The WCU Board of Trustees approved a new alcohol policy that increases the number of campus locations for service of alcoholic beverages. The action came during the board’s last meeting and applies to all members of the WCU community, effective immediately. Under the new policy, malt beverages and fortified wine […]
PPI Assembly Policy Recommendations, Survey Results
The survey data at the University Assembly indicate we have not done as well in building an overall sense of community at WCU as we would wish. 52 percent of those at the Assembly participating in the survey agreed that we have a strong sense of community at WCU. One […]
Itramural Sports Update
INDOOR SOCCER TEAM SIGN-UPS (M &W) begin Monday, October 12th and end Tuesday, October 23rd at 4:00 p.m. in IM Office 130, Reid Gym. Five participants constitute a team. The Indoor Soccer Rules Clinic occurs Thursday, October 25th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 132 of Reid Gym. MEN’S TABLE TENNIS […]
Islam Assembly Helps to Educate
Students, staff, faculty and members of the local community gathered in the Natural Sciences Auditorium last Tuesday night in what Dr. Richard Collings, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, called an attempt “to bring together a variety of disciplines in order to make sense of” the recent terrorist attacks on […]
Cashing In On Disaster
An obvious side effect of democracy is capitalism: a virtual, unending realm of free enterprise, paving America’s streets with gold and spreading its divine doctrine of financial advancement for individuals, corporations and countries. And this realm is, indeed, virtual. It is a realm of numbers and symbols representing what was […]
“From Hell” tells definitive Ripper tale in comic form
When most people think of comic books, radioactively powered super-men battling large-headed megalomaniac super-villains in futuristic cities of bright color spring almost immediately to mind. But comic scribe Alan Moore doesn’t think like most people. The British author behind famed comic projects like “The Watchmen,” which mixed hero archetypes with […]
