It is the weekend. You walk out of your dorm, and what do you see? Empty parking lots. Everywhere you look, empty parking lots! I have to stop and ask. What is the deal? Why has Western Carolina become a “Suitcase Campus”? School is supposed to be the time of […]
Day: February 26, 2007
What’s the point of a foreign language requirement?
Most students end up taking a foreign language in college to fill a degree requirement or minor or to satisfy a personal desire. Though some students do not enjoy studying other languages, the knowledge may, indeed, be helpful in the long run. I studied Spanish from elementary school through my […]
The evil of computers
Everyone has had a computer problem of some kind. It could be a little thing like having bad internet connection to a blood-chilling problem like a complete crash while writing a last-minute paper. Sometimes I think it would just be easier to go back to using a typewriter or sending […]
Media piracy: there are no pirates here
Copyright infringement. File sharing. Software piracy. These buzz words all point at the hot topic of illegal data downloading and sharing. Not to mention, they haunt me in my sleep. Based on the legal attention being afforded this issue, obviously piracy is a problem for someone, but for whom? And […]
Catamount track teams finish in second place at SoCon Indoor Championships
The Western Carolina men’s and women’s track and field teams both finished in second place at the SoCon Indoor Championships on February 17 and 18. The Catamounts combined to win 10 individual championships and post 26 all-conference performers. The Catamount women suffered a heartbreakingly close loss to hated rival Appalachian […]
Lady Catamounts move into sole possession of first place
The Western Carolina Lady Catamounts did something that very few teams have been able to do over the last seven years-beat Chattanooga twice in the regular season and be in sole possession of first place. Western did both of those things in front of a record crowd of 2,178 screaming […]
Lady Catamounts’ loses a trio on the road
Last season, the Lady Catamount Softball team broke the record for the most homeruns in a season, plus they won over 40 games. So far this season, those two statistics have a certain number in common: zero. Through the first five games of the 2007 season, the Lady Catamounts have […]
Catamount softball start ’07 season with a pair of losses
The Western Carolina Softball team started the 2007 season in the Volunteer state, but would leave Tennessee State with a pair of opening season losses. Losing the first game of a doubleheader in nine innings, 4-3 and then falling the second game of the twin bill, 6-1 in front of […]
Lady Catamount winning streak continues
With the conference tournament only a few short weeks away, Western Carolina is by far on the hottest streak of any Southern Conference team as of lately. The Lady Catamounts extended their winning streak to nine games with a pair of wins over Davidson College and Appalachian State University to […]
Success of 2006 Softball May Be Hard To Recapture In ’07
In their inaugural season, the Catamount softball team exceeded all expectations and clinched the Southern Conference’s Regular Season Championship. The Catamounts, unfortunately, were eliminated in the first round of the Southern Conference Tournament ending their dreams of getting to the NCAA Tournament. Now, one year later the Catamounts are looking […]
