Western Carolina University’s administration has long favored importing the ideas of others over cultivating and exporting the ideas of its own. This is despite Chancellor Bardo’s eerily ever-similar, bi-annual graduation speech highlighting that year’s one Western graduate who didn’t buy into him and his administration’s implied message of regional and […]
Day: January 28, 2004
Catamount Concert Series
The Western Carolina University music department’s newly launched Catamount Concert Series will continue in February, with performances in Cashiers, Cullowhee and Asheville. The yearlong series of performances, designed to showcase the talents of Western’s music department faculty for audiences across the mountains, will feature a broad array of music, ranging […]
Fueling Up: Fads, Facts
Teal blue, flamingo pink and crystal clear thirst quenchers entice us into stores everywhere. Enhanced waters, energy drinks, sports drinks and fitness waters, who needs them and why? Some drinks promise lightening fast reaction times and others offer to boost immunity. Do they help health, or is it all hype? […]
How to Pay Nine Grand for a Nine Dollar Six Pack of Beer
After a long night of partying and drinking, you should always consider the harsh penalties for getting caught with a first-offense DWI. In North Carolina, even if a driver is of age to legally drink, the costs of driving after consumption can be detrimental with fines ranging from $100 to […]
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His mother wanted him to have no distractions from his schoolwork and football, so the 6’3″ football player visited Catamount country and made it his home away from home. Michale Spicer, now a senior, has always had sports in his blood. He played basketball and ran track in high school, […]
Open Classroom Project Provides Learning Experience for Faculty
Alan Altany, director of the Coulter Faculty Center, says the Open Classroom Project “is an opportunity for faculty to learn more about teaching methods and goals by directly experiencing the classroom teaching of others.” With the help of Western’s faculty, staff and GTA members, the 2003 Open Classroom Project was […]
UC Addition Doubles Size of Center
The second and third floor additions to the A. K. Hinds University Center opened this month. These new additions nearly double the size of the University Center and are expected to help bring a more centralized feeling to the WCU campus. “We want the University to have a center,” says […]
