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Thursday, April 18, 2024
The first annual Western Carolinian NCAA Bracket contest concluded Monday as Kansas beat Memphis in the National Championship game. Jonathan Hubler is the winner of the contest, having picked three of four final four teams and Kansas as the National Championship. A lot of picking a bracket has to do […]
CULLOWHEE-On the weekend of March 28th, Western Carolina’s men’s baseball team took two of three from UNC-Greensboro to earn their first Southern Conference series victory of the season at Childress Field/Hennon Stadium. A controversial call from the first base umpire saw senior Blake Murphy only eligible to play in two […]
A certain buzz is floating its way around the Carolina Panthers this off season. The front office started working to better the team as soon as the regular season was over. When asked about improving the offense, specifically adding another playmaker to complement Steve Smith, Head Coach Jon Fox commented […]
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10 Of course, no one deserves to be the victims of theft, but Einstein’s Deli charges something like sixteen dollars for a plain bagel. I’m not saying stealing a purse full of plastic silverware and sweet and low packets is okay, I’m just saying that in terms of theft, there’s […]
The Western Carolina baseball team brought the broomsticks with them in their home series sweep over conference foe Davidson April 5-7. The win brought the Catamounts to 15-15 overall and 5-4 in conference. The first game of the three game series originally set for Friday evening was postponed due to […]
New at Western Carolina is a club for students interested in fishing, and other outdoor activities. Cameron Street Hamrick and Jeff White brought Ducks Unlimited recently to this campus.”We’ve had an awesome turn out, everyone’s having a great time” said Hamrick.Ducks Unlimited has been a national organization since 1937. It […]
George Clooney returns to the director (and actor) seat with Leatherheads, a straightforward homage to the smarmy ’20s culture and to the rise of professional football. Leatherheads stars Clooney as Jimmy “Dodge” Connolly, a guy who leads the Duluth Bulldogs, a rag-tag professional football team trying to make it big […]
All over the United States, students attending college aim to get the best grades and get the most out of their education. Some of these students don’t have as easy a chore as others, though. Along with the stress of making the grade and the finances that college requires, a […]
Joel Marchesoni, Jenni Giles, Sarah Hipp, Kristi Whitehead and myself founded the WCU Green Party, formally the WCU Campus Greens, in spring of 2007. We sprang from all of ours desire to have another political party available on campus. Our “coming out” was the Wellness Fair that semester where we […]
