Month: March 2007

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Music Preferences are the Newest Flavors of the Week

When most students come to college, they have musical preferences they’ve picked up from back home. Indeed, favorite bands are often a local occurrence influenced by years of listening to the hometown radio stations and going to the same live concerts. But in college, many students expand their musical tastes […]

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Homosexuality in Pop-Culture

Only three decades ago, public displays of affection between two people of the same sex was considered taboo and could end in the alienation of the people involved. Today however, homosexuality and even those just being affectionate towards one another is generally accepted. There are still people who believe whole […]

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Tattoos and piercings: branding for the young (and young at heart)

One commonality that strongly characterizes our generation is body modification by way of tattoos and skin piercing. Since I am fully fascinated with the concept that every other twenty-something-year-old has changed their body with ink or metal, I further investigated. After calling the three main tattoo parlors in Sylva, I […]

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Catamount softball earns first win of season against WSSU

What was originally supposed to be a double header for Western ended up to be just a single game. However, the Catamounts emerged victorious in that one game against Winston Salem State with a 9-0 win. In the second game, the Catamounts were ahead 5-0 when a downpour occurred with […]

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Catamounts get one win at Charlotte First Pitch Classic

Played in Charlotte, the First Pitch Classic would be the Catamount softball team’s first tournament of the season. In the tournament, however, the Catamounts would not fare as well as they’d hoped. The Catamounts played four games in two days and only got one win out of the deal. In […]

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Long ball propels Catamounts past Huskies

Western Carolina Baseball started off its 1st home series of the year with a bang. Western defeated the Connecticut Huskies twice over the weekend of February 23-25. Despite losing the 2nd game of the series, the Catamounts scored 29 runs over the 3 games to improve their record to 4-and-2 […]

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Catamounts go 1-and-1 vs. the Dogs

On back-to-back days, Western Carolina took on a pair of teams with the same mascot-the Bulldogs. The Catamounts went down to SEC country and defeated the University of Georgia but would fall to UNC-Asheville the next day. With these two games, Western goes to 10-and-6 on the season. Western Carolina […]

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Catamounts defeat Wolfpack in LeClair Classic

Despite dropping a pair of close games over the weekend of March 2-4, Western Carolina did knock off their 2nd Atlantic Cost Conference opponent in the span of 4 days as they defeated the 20th ranked North Carolina State Wolfpack at the 4th Annual Keith LeClair Classic on the campus […]

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Lady Catamount golf starts the spring with a 12th place finish

The Lady Catamount golf team started off the spring season with a 12th place finish out of 20 teams at the Lady Cougar Invitational at the Azalea City Golf course, hosted by the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Middle Tennessee State won the invitational with a 15 over […]

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Catamounts knock off 14th ranked Yellow Jackets

Western Carolina made a major statement in their trip down to ACC country to take on the 14th ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. That statement was a big lead early in the game and holding off a late charge from Georgia Tech to go on to the 10-7 victory over […]