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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Dr. David Belcher was announced Western Carolina University’s 11th chancellor in the school’s 122 year history at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, April 8. The announcement was made at the end of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors bi-monthly meeting in Chapel Hill and was telecast to the Blue Ridge […]
If the Government implements a shutdown on Friday night, nearly the entire Great Smoky Mountains National Park would be closed beginning Saturday, April 9, including visitor centers, campgrounds, picnic areas, trails, concession operations, restrooms, and all roads, with the exception of the Newfound Gap Road between Gatlinburg and Cherokee. Newfound […]
Two Western Carolina students have started a website to promote community activities for students to get out of their dorms, but also to stay at Western over the weekends. WCU senior Nathan Hunzaker originally started a WordPress website dedicated to showing students what activities were being planned in Cullowhee and […]
(Editor’s Note: The story that describes the voting issues with last week’s SGA election in detail can be found here.) Doug Bridges, the Presidential candidate with the least amount of votes in last week’s Student Government Association (SGA) election, spoke to The Western Carolinian in an exclusive interview Wednesday night […]
The Western Carolina University Board of Trustees authorized the issuance of special obligation bonds to jumpstart renovations to a 38-year-old residence hall, including energy efficiency improvements that would enable the building to qualify for LEED certification. Approval of the bonds as a bridge loan came during the board’s regular quarterly […]
The Department of Student Community Ethics (DSCE) is holding a student-only academic integrity forum on April 2 at 9 p.m. in Scott East. The Writing Center, Western PEAKS, graduate students, and Holly Taylor will be presenting a discussion on being ethical and general academic integrity issues. Taylor, who has been […]
(Editor’s Note: The following is the ninth part of a series of articles looking at the lives of WCU faculty and staff before they were educators.) Before becoming an Assistant Professor of English at Western Carolina University, Kenneth Price moved around the country from Texas to Alaska, to California and […]
Scenes from the student production of Kiss Me, Kate at the Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center from March 24 – 27, 2011.
Vangie Jones, alumni of Western Carolina University and her mother, Aletta Buchanan, have a unique relationship that not many people do not today. Since 2002 they have worked side-by-side at the United States Postal Office in Cullowhee. While some could cringe of the thought of sharing a home life as […]
(Editor’s Note: The following is the second of a series of articles where Western Carolinian writers profile the lives and careers of coaches before they arrived at WCU.) Dennis Wagner is entering his fourth season at the helm of the Catamount Football program. A native of Waverly, IA, Wagner has […]
