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Thursday, September 19, 2024
Easy, Tart Cranberry Sauce Serves 5+ Total Time: 30~ minutes This fresh cranberry sauce has a tart, sweet bite that is perfect warm right off the stove or cooled down with leftovers. So easy you won’t miss the canned sauce! One 12 ounce Bag Fresh Cranberries One Cup White […]
We never know which experiences will stay with us forever. One such event in my life is the first time I traveled to Cullowhee. It was the beginning of my freshman year of college, I was heading to a place I had never seen where I would spend the next […]
As COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural communities lag behind their urban counterparts, rural healthcare resources are becoming increasingly exhausted by COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality. Rural hospitals serve exceedingly important roles during the pandemic. They act as agents for the provision of vital healthcare resources to rural neighbors and families who […]
Dear Editor, We all know that diversity and inclusion are essential on campus. Many of us were even required to take courses on the subject at the beginning of the semester, however it seems many of our peers have dismissed what they learned in favor of harmful hate and slander. […]
Two weeks ago, I was pleasantly surprised to see the Sept. 3 copy of Western Carolinian in the Friends of the Library BookStore on Sylva’s Main St. I had not seen a copy of the school newspaper in what seemed like forever and could not believe my eyes. Naturally, I […]
If you could see sound, what would you see? Well, at the Bardo Arts Center’s latest opening performance, audiences experienced the visual and musical arts of water, sound, light, resonance, vibration, frequency, harmony, and music through their latest live performance, Seeing Sound: A musical Journey of Water and Light. On […]
WCU basketball lost a head coach and 12 players before the end of last season, leaving the team requiring an almost complete rebuild before the start of the 2021-2022 season. Head Coach Justin Gray, former professional basketball player and assistant coach at Winthrop University, joined the Catamount team in April […]
Jefferson Pinder was getting his BA in Theatre when he visited a video art exhibition by Gary Hill and realized the strength of using video as an art medium. He’d always loved performance art because of the community it created between the artist and the audience, and video was the […]
As I walked down to the pavilion, I was instantly teleported to an Appalachian interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The fiddler played a lovely tune as I took in the transformed pavilion that blended right into the nature surrounding us. Peter Savage, the director of this lovely performance, further […]
The Western Carolina Catamount football team has had a very disappointing start to the 2021 season. The Catamounts came into this year hopeful, with new head coach Kerwin Bell stepping into his first D1 head coaching job. However, the Catamounts have failed to live up to expectations, starting the season […]
