GREENVILLE, SC – This weekend I witnessed the 2001 Mountain Dew Southern Conference Basketball Championships from the grocery store arena, otherwise known as the Bi-Lo Center. In all, the tournament, hosted by Greenville and produced by the Southern Conference, was a success despite the negative returns in the pocketbooks of […]

GREENVILLE, SC – As a part of the Southern Conference basketball championships, postseason honors were announced Thursday with several Western Carolina Catamounts earning accolades. The Lady Catamounts enjoyed their best season since the 1988-89 campaign. Their 13-14 overall mark was the best since ’88 when the team that season equaled […]

GREENVILLE, SC – Entering Thursday’s first-round of the Southern Conference basketball championships with a mere five regular season wins, and with only three of those coming against conference opponents, things didn’t look very good for the sixth-seeded Western Carolina Catamounts. However, after 40 minutes of basketball which saw the Cats […]

Western Carolina University’s planned Regional Laborforce Development Center cleared a major hurdle Wednesday, February 28 when bids for construction came in about $904,000 under the total construction funds available. The 28,000-square-foot high-technology training facility is to be built and equipped with $6 million in federal funds secured over the past […]

The surprise is not that Western Carolina University student Crystal Olson was named to a USA Today College Academic Team. The surprise is that she can find the time to talk about it. Perhaps it was the WCU junior’s busy schedule of academic and extracurricular activities that impressed the judges […]

One of the nation’s most high-profile attorneys told a crowd at Western Carolina University Thursday, March 1 that lawyers are the “last bastion” of defense protecting the public and individual civil liberties against the government. Alan Dershowitz spoke before nearly 1,000 people at WCU’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center. After meeting […]

Public service announcements for the American Red Cross prepared by two Western Carolina University classes recently received top honors at a statewide communications banquet. The first-place award was presented at the North Carolina Red Cross Awards held in Myrtle Beach, SC, in recognition of a series of audio public service […]

Western Carolina University is the first four-year institution in the state to receive recertification of its postsecondary criminal justice education program by the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission. The certification was announced by N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper. Fred Hawley, professor of criminal justice at WCU, […]

Using the comfort of the residence halls as a back drop, Chancellor John Bardo will hold face-to-face meetings with students throughout March. “Chat with the Chancellor,” the formal name of the gatherings, is designed to improve the campus and life in general at Western. University officials said the chats were […]