Month: November 2001

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The Strokes Take Music Back To Essentials

I was flipping through the channels a few weeks ago when I got to MTV and saw something amazing. It was a video for a band that wasn’t dressed in designer outfits, a band that wasn’t dancing around like choreographed monkeys, a band that was actually playing instruments. I was […]

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Ex-Pavement Singer Brings Act To Asheville

Many music fans may not have heard of the early 90s band Pavement, but many of their favorite bands and musicians have. With a zany brand of highly melodic pop music and stream-of-consciousness lyrics, the Matador Records band remains one of the most influential of the underground alternative bands today. […]

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Dilated Peoples Amaze With Sophomore Album

Sometimes one gets tired of the same old rhymes about cash money, blunts and “ho’s” (sorry, Ludacris), and they want to find a fresher sound than can be found in mainstream rap circles. Where can they turn to? Rock and roll has indie, country has alterna-country, where can the rap […]

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WCU Secures Title, First Seed with SoCon Victories

After finishing their conference season with wins over Appalachian State and East Tennessee State, the Lady Catamount soccer squad has moved to first in the Southern Conference and has secured at least a share of the regular season title. Additionally, since WCU has defeated UNCG and Furman, who are the […]

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Course On Middle East Offered

A geography topics course on the Middle East, an area of popular interest among Americans in light of current world events, is being offered at Western Carolina University in the spring semester. WCU associate professor of geography, Jeffrey Neff, will instruct “Topics in Regional Geography – The Middle East” (GEOG […]

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Justice, Starvation and Afghans

MSNBC’s Preston Mendenhall reported from Pakistan the Afghan view of the U.S. air strikes: “If a U.S. bomb is off target or falls by mistake on a civilian area, it’s very difficult for Afghans to comprehend why, at least as they see it in very black-and-white terms when a bomb […]

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Rampant Parnoia

Dear Editor, Paranoia is rampant in our nation. I, too, have fallen victim to its clutches and have made an effort to escape a mindset that suspects everyone as a terrorist. Recently, a day spent in Atlanta changed that. Frothing at the mouth to escape the humdrum of Cullowhee, I […]

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Against Relativism

Dear Editor, A common charge leveled against my chosen field of study, anthropology, is that it adheres too strictly to the doctrine of cultural relativism. This doctrine holds that the actions of individuals should be judged according to whether or not those actions are considered acceptable in that culture. When […]

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WCU To Offer Survival Course

Western Carolina University will offer “Strength and Conditioning Survivability” as a self-study distance learning course. Participants may enroll and take the course at any time. Course topics will include overtraining, resistance training systems, nutrition and supplements, strength and conditioning exercises, injury prevention and treatment,combatives and self-defense exercises, and environmental survival […]

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WCU Rugby Goes To States

The WCU men’s rugby team has continued their winning ways this fall season. They head into this weekend’s state tournament with winning three straight, all against division opponents. More impressively, the combined score for the three games was 83-5 in favor of the Catamounts. Furman, Elon, and the University of […]