Members of the Campus Community: Last week, Vice Chancellor Chuck Wooten informed you that we have received word of a significant, potential budget cut. Weare in the process of preparing a plan for a possible cut of 7 percent. If implemented, this budget reduction would take placeJuly 1. Planning for […]

Plans for the $98.1 million that WCU received under the bond referendum approved last November are spread out over the next six years and will begin with the construction of the Fine and Performing Arts Building. Andrew Comrie, director of WCU’s Physical Plant, said the plans for the building will […]

Members of the Campus Community: In correspondence to you earlier today, I pledged to keep you informed as the University deals with the very difficult state budget situation. Western, along with all UNC institutions, was required to submit to a Legislative subcommittee a potential budget reduction plan based on a […]

Western Carolina University is currently accepting applications from Western North Carolina public school teachers for participation in the 20th Annual Mountain Area Writing Project. Co-sponsored by WCU and The University of North Carolina at Asheville, the 20-day session will be held on the UNCA campus from July 5 through July […]

By now everyone on the campus of Western Carolina has been informed that the charter of Lambda Chi Alpha is closed, however, the reason or reasons for this, are still unclear. Many rumors and speculations of this have been rampant and perhaps the entire truth may never come to light, […]

Western Carolina University will host a workshop designed for professionals and individuals who work with parents, foster parents and caregivers in the area of parenting skills on Wednesday, May 9, from 8:30am until noon. “Raising Stronger Families” will consist of lecture, activities, group discussions and time for questions and answers. […]

Next year’s team will be selected during the weekend of April 27-29, 2001. The new team will perform for athletic events during the fall and spring semesters of the 2001-2002 school year as well as other Western North Carolina community events. If you have had formal dance training and love […]

Tennis Signs CottonWestern Carolina’s head women’s tennis coach Jan Stubbs announced the signing today of Kristin Cotton of Central, S.C. to a National Letter of Intent. Cotton has lettered on the varsity squad for the past five seasons at D.W. Daniel High School. In the eighth grade she was the […]

#8220;So how’s your love life?” The phrase dreaded by “singletons,” those who find themselves alone on Friday nights, throughout the world and which is always brought up at just the right moment on all major holidays. “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” based on the Helen Fielding national best-selling novel of the same […]

#8220;Once upon a time there lived a King and a Queen, and that Queen had a wickedly evil mother-in-law. When the King went off to war, the old Queen had her daughter-in-law locked up in a musty room in the cellar, and her two little boys were locked up with […]