The men’s and women’s track and field squads traveled to Johnson City, Tennessee to compete in the IKON Invitational, hosted by Southern Conference rival East Tennessee State University, last weekend. The highlight of the meet for the Cats was the performance of the men’s 4×400 relay team, which set a […]
Month: January 2001
Cats Whip Keydets, 82-62
GREENVILLE, SC – The Western Carolina Catamounts fought for 35 of the allotted 40 minutes, but a 20-2 run by the Furman Paladins ended their two-game winning streak, 67-47 Monday night from Timmons Arena. WCU fell to 4-18 overall and a game back from other conference teams at 2-7. Furman, […]
Catamount Rugby Notches Victory Over Paladins
GREENVILLE, SC – Western Carolina’s men’s rugby squad narrowly defeated Furman last Saturday in Greenville, their first Southern Conference contest of the season. The 10-8 win lived up to its billing as the Catamounts’ most difficult conference match-up of the year. The game’s opening half was a scoreless stalemate, as […]
Got HookAdventures in the Southern Conference
For four years I’ve represented Western Carolina at athletic contests as either a member of print or electronic media, or as a member of the media relations staff. Sitting along the press row or high atop Whitmire Stadium in the press box, emotions are not tolerated. Rather than being a […]
Tragic Loss at Oklahoma State Shows that We Should All Be Thankful
Oftentimes, in today’s modern world of college basketball, we tend to assume that teams will travel quickly around the country to play games for the sake of our enjoyment. This luxury, however, sometimes comes with a cost. Last Saturday, ten members of the Oklahoma State University basketball family, including two […]
TRAFFIC: As Real As Movies Can Feel
Traffic is the movie so many Americans have waited for. It tells the real story of drug trafficking in America. The movie, starring Michael Douglas, centers around the trafficking industry of North America. When Robert Wakefield (Douglas) is named the new head of the DEA, he faces an insurmountable task […]
Java Man: How Today’s Discoveries Affect Tomorrow’s Understanding
Every semi-well-informed person knows a little something about archaeology, anthropology, and paleontology, even if he or she is not quite sure about the fields’ terminology. News of momentous discoveries like Lucy, thought to be the “missing link” between humans and their ape ancestors, or the Iceman, whose secrets scientists are […]
Bittersweet Frustrations with Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards
#8220;I don’t drink because I’m dry, baby, I drink because I’m blue. I tried pretty well this morning, I can’t get along with you. Said hey, baby, don’t you want to go-land of California, sweet home Chicago.” If those lines sound familiar, then one of the latest releases from Smithsonian […]
DepartMental:Anthropology and Sociology: The People Person’s Majors
If you think that you are a people person then wait until you get a load of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. In this department, people are the key and anything about human behavior is fair game. This department has two degree programs and a host of minors to […]
“Is That Your Wife? What a Lovely Neck…” – Nosferatu
Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)A Prana-film ProductionDirected by F.W. MurnauWritten by Henrik GaleenBased upon Dracula by Bram StokerStarring Max Schreck and Gustav von Wangenheim In this, the age of slick production, huge budgets and digital special effects, F.W. Murnau’s legendary work Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated, a Symphony […]
