Western Carolina’s softball team ended their season (12-35) as an eighth seed in the Southern Conference Tournament Thursday May 7, falling to fourth seeded Georgia Southern 6-1 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was the third game of the day for the Catamounts, after the first day of the tournament was cancelled […]

The latest pandemic, or a sickness that spreads through a population across large area and can even spread worldwide, is none other than swine flu, or the H1N1 virus. Believed to have originated in Mexico, the swine flu as infected over 5,000 people and has been discovered as close to […]

Western Carolina’s baseball club improved to 19-10 in Southern Conference competition and 32-20 overall by defeating Davidson (11-16 SoCon) in a three-game series, played in three consecutive days at Davidson, May 14-16, 2009. Each game was a hard fought victory as Davidson rallied to close the gap each night. In […]

Western Carolina University junior music education major Andrew Blair recently was accepted to a prestigious percussion class to be held in New York later this spring under the direction of the world’s foremost marimba virtuoso. The Leigh Howard Stevens 30th Summer Marimba Seminar is a comprehensive and intensive three-week master […]

Western Carolina baseball jumped all over the College of Charleston within the first two innings to overwhelm the Cougars with a final score of 12-4 on Wednesday, May 20 in the first round of the Southern Conference Tournament. Fourth-seeded Western Carolina pounded out 20 hits to advance past fifth-seeded College […]

Western Carolina University student Leeanne Deaver will intern with five-time Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long on Broadway this summer. Deaver, who is originally from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but attended Pisgah High School in Canton, graduated from WCU earlier this month with a bachelor’s degree in costume design. She […]

(Editor’s Note: The following is the first article in a series of articles that will look at where students can and are volunteering their time) The Community Table is a national organization that helps people who cannot provide for themselves. It prides itself on being a community of volunteers, staff, […]

Now, more than ever, the public is taking a second look at America’s financial system. The recent collapse of many financial institutions has ordinary people asking, “Where did we go wrong? Who went wrong?” Situations like these seem to generate much discussion. Unfortunately, it also seems to precipitate a lot […]

Rainy skies outside didn’t dampen the enthusiasm inside Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center as the university held a pair of commencement ceremonies to honor a record-breaking spring class of approximately 1,150 graduating students, and another group of about 100 students who will complete requirements for their degrees later […]