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Friday, November 8, 2024
It’s The X-Files, without Scully and Mulder. Or, at least, this was my first thought when I stumbled upon Fringe, a Fox series that premiered back in September. It has all of the traditional qualities of The X-Files: Supernatural gifts, telekinesis, impossible occurrences and computer viruses that melt human brains […]
On Feb. 6, Billy McGuigan was Buddy Holly at the Fine and Performing Arts Center. This was a part of the FPAC’s Galaxy of Stars Series. The show sold out fairly quickly and the house was packed. This event took place thirty years and three days after Buddy Holly was […]
On Feb. 12, Justin Caudell, the Western Carolinian’s Editor-in-Chief, received two awards from the North Carolina Press Association at the 2008 News, Editorial and Photojournalism contest held at the Embassy Suites near Raleigh. Caudell took home an award in the General Sports Reporting and Sports Feature Writing categories. He received […]
Beginning this semester, students can be graded on a scale that recognizes not only an ‘A’, but an ‘A+’ as a valid grade. The system was initially proposed by the Student Government Association in the 2007 fall semester, and was approved by the Faculty Senate on Apr. 17, 2008. Last […]
Staff and interns of WCU’s Counseling Center recently participated in the Stewards of Children Training designed to teach adults how to protect children and youth from sexual abuse. The training, developed by Darkness to Light, Inc., a non profit in Charleston, SC, is now being offered by trained facilitators throughout […]
Jill Manners, associate professor and clinical education coordinator for Western Carolina University’s athletic training program, has been named the 2009 North Carolina Athletic Training Educator of the Year by the North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association. Manners, a resident of Cullowhee, joined the WCU faculty in 2004. She holds a bachelor’s […]
A dozen yellow bikes may soon be coming to a bike rack near you. The Yellow Bike project will most likely go into effect after Spring Break, providing free, healthy, and environmentally-friendly transportation to Western’s campus. It could also alleviate some parking issues for students who live on or near […]
I did it again this morning: pointless stop lighting. You know what I mean, sitting at a stoplight from which you can see all intersecting points for hundreds of feet and there is no one coming from either direction and no one to use the lights that are now green. […]
Robby Zehrung, a pre-med student at WCU, is preparing to run a marathon in honor of his grandmother and grandfather in April. “This is my chance to do something cool”, states Zehrung. While he may be going through extensive training to run 26.2 miles in Nashville, Tennessee on Apr. 25, […]
Dr. Laura Wright is an assistant professor in the English department, and is the Director of Graduate Studies in English at Western Carolina University. She received her undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University, her MA from East Carolina University, and her PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She […]
