The CulloWHEE! ArtsFest, Western Carolina University’s summer celebration of live jazz music and fine arts, is now accepting applications for a juried exhibition and sale to take place as part of the two-day festival featuring headliners the Manhattan Transfer, David Sanborn, Joe Sample, and the Yellowjackets. The festival is scheduled […]
Month: April 2001
Lambda Chi Alpha Charter Suspended
After 31 years at WCU, the Beta Zeta chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha was closed Friday, March 30, after a decision by the Greek Life Advisory Committee. The Greek Life Advisory Committee found the chapter in “non-compliance” with WCU’s Greek Life Plan for Excellence for the second year. According to […]
Appeal Results in Rescheduled Election Runoff
As the result of an appeal made by one of the presidential candidates on Friday afternoon, the runoff for student body president and vice-president, which had been scheduled for Monday, was postponed. Jermaine Baxter, a presidential candidate who garnered enough votes from the original election to be entered in the […]
WCU’s Bellon narrowly misses making Millionaire “hot seat”
3Western Carolina University faculty member Monica Bellon came oh-so-close, but couldn’t quite make the “hot seat” during her stint on the popular ABC game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” Bellon, head of WCU’s department of human services, appeared on the Millionaire episode that aired on Friday, April 6. […]
Carolinian Can’t Fix Campus Issues
Dear Editor, Recently the Western Carolinian seems to publish similar complaints. We all know that our eating situation is poor, that weekly our newspaper publishes rubbish, that our radio tends to sound better when there is dead air, and that ” There’s nothing to do”. But complaining to a campus […]
Article by Schwartz appears accurate
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the letter written by Chris Hall that was printed in the April 4 edition of the Western Carolinian. The letter claimed that an article written by Lee Schwartz contained several mistakes about Mr. Hall’s SGA goals. I have examined the original article, […]
The All Powerful American Ego
A diplomatic “war” has begun, and this time America is not defending helpless victims of overbearing dictators, or protecting America’s financial interests. Now, the most selfish country in the world is proving it: America’s diplomacy is not aimed solely at protecting our relations with China, but at protecting our beloved […]
Reader Questions SGA Election Politics
Dear Editor I am getting very concerned about the political “mud-slinging” which has passed in this latest SGA election. It seems to me that a lot of things were said merely with the intent of destroying someone else. For instance I could not stand the editorial that Chris Hall wrote […]
Leatherwood Resident Wants Heater Relief
Dear Editor I am very annoyed that housing has yet to turn off the heaters in Leatherwood Hall. It has been very hot these last few days, and the heaters are still going as if it were still cold outside. I am sitting here at 2:15 AM and I fell […]
Student Amused by Harkins Letters
Dear Editor, Earlier this week I was reading Western’s very own newspaper, The Western Carolinian. I came across a page that had a letter to the editor written by the student who has been here for 7 years. This letter was the second letter that I had read from this […]
