With opening night scheduled for February 27, excitement is building as the University Players’ performers enter into the last week of rehearsal before the Rocky Horror Show debut. Even as the final touches are being applied to the choreography, music, and acting, the actors and actresses take a few moments […]
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College of Business Student Responds to ‘Challenge’
As a future graduate of the College of Business at Western Carolina University, I find myself caught in the midst of Mr. Kissmann’s challenge to “get active.” Though I do not completely agree with his argument, I have found that there is a strange rash of apathy that circulates in […]
LMP To Sponsor Poet Glenis Redmond
Poet Glenis Redmond will perform at Western Carolina University on Monday, February 26, at 9 p.m. The reading will take place in Illusions Dance Club, located in the A.K. Hinds University Center. Tickets for the show are $2 for WCU students, $4 for non-students. Redmond performs original poetry, which tells […]
WCU UNIVERSITY PLAYERS TO PRESENT “ROCKY HORROR”
The University Players at Western Carolina University will present the cult classic musical “The Rocky Horror Show” Tuesday, February 27, through Saturday, March 3. All performances will take place at WCU’s Hoey Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. and will be directed by Richard Beam, associate professor of communication and theatre arts […]
WCU to Break Ground on Fine Arts Center
Western Carolina University will break ground Thursday, March 8, on the Fine and Performing Arts Center, the first of several WCU construction and renovation projects funded by a $3.1 billion higher education bond package approved in a statewide referendum in November. A public ground-breaking ceremony will begin at 9:15 a.m. […]
“Ecological Indian” subject of Feb. 22 talk
Anthropologist Shepard Krech III will give a public talk at Western Carolina University on Thursday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Mountain Heritage Center. Krech is the author of “The Ecological Indian,” a book detailing his research that argues against the popular image that Native Americans were respectful and […]
Student Lobby Day
Student voices will be heard at the General Assembly Building in Raleigh on Feb. 20 when students and other representatives gather for Student Lobby Day at the Capital to discuss “Higher Education” issues. “This day can have as great of an impact as the number of students that attend,” said […]
Campus, Community Safety Differ
According to a recent report on three years’ worth of crime statistics from universlast Wednesday. Campuses are generally safer places than the larger communities in which they are located. The report, released by the Department of Education to Congress in January, states “The campus crime statistics collected by the U.S. […]
UNC System Students to Lobby February 20
Student voices will be heard at the General Assembly Building in Raleigh on Feb. 20 when students and other representatives gather for Student Lobby Day at the state capital to discuss “higher education” issues. “This day can have as great of an impact as the number of students that attend,” […]
IFC Votes on All Greek Parties Resolution
The Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) recently voted to only allow members of fraternities and sororities to attend fraternity parties. This resolution, which would begin a trial period after Spring Break, was designed in response to low fraternity recruitment numbers, according to Luke Dean, president of the IFC. Only about 30 men […]
