Day: March 6, 2001

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Catamounts Baseball Splits with Wofford, Buries UNCA

Western Carolina opened their 2001 Southern Conference season Sunday by splitting a doubleheader against the Terriers of Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, February 28, the Catamounts (6-9, 1-1) exploded on offense for a 19-10 win over UNC Asheville. The opening game Sunday, at Duncan Stadium, saw the […]

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Cory’s ColumnLookout Tiger, Durant Making Early Charge

As the nation’s sports fans keep one eye on the closing of the year’s basketball season and begin to go “mad” with March heat, they begin to turn over to the new baseball season with opening day fast approaching. What many fans tend to overlook, however, is the year-long, fan-unfriendly […]

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Fiske Trial Outcome ‘Just Doesn’t Do Justice’

After reading the outcome of the Fiske case, I have become outraged. A minimum seven years and ten months just doesn’t do justice to the crime at hand. Christina murdered an infant. Not just any infant but her own flesh and blood. So she has seemingly justified her act, so […]

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Fiske Sentence Leads to Disrespect for Judicial System

OPEN SEASON FOR BABY KILLERS!!!!! That’s right folks, here is the formula proven to work if you decide to murder your child: Step I: Carry child to term which consists of 36 weeks, 3 trimesters (252 days.) Step II: Have a beautiful baby girl then smother her to death. Dump […]

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Professional Wrestling Nothing More Than Sexist Trash

In a time when Barbie gets enough bad press for Mattel to give her a breast reduction and we have to revamp our vocabularies to avoid linguistic sexism, it’s hard to believe that the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) is allowed to display and abuse their “divas” on any television channel […]

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DepartMentalChemistry and Physics

This week I entered the realm of protons, electrons, and neutrons by visiting the department of chemistry and physics. The last time I ventured this far into the realm of science I was lucky to make it out with a C. Fortunately, this time I was learning more about the […]

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Dershowitz Visit a Success

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz spoke to the people of WCU in the Ramsey Center on Thursday night. He spoke on a variety of topics that were of great interest. Among the topics he addressed were the reasons behind the acquittal of O.J. Simpson, his victories defending dissidents in the […]

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Anderson Extradition Stalled, Pending Review

The former WCU student accused of killing his father and burying his remains off of Moses Creek Road temporarily delayed extradition back to North Carolina and will remain in the Milwaukee County Jail, pending a review of the extradition papers. An extradition hearing scheduled Friday, in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, […]

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Volleyball Wins Annual Tournament

The Lady Catamount volleyball squad returned to action last weekend after a triumphant end to last year’s season. WCU went on a late run down the stretch in conference action last fall and emerged as one of the dominant teams in the SoCon. Davidson finally ended the Lady Cats’ streak […]