On April 7, Stonewall Packaging LLC, a division of Jackson County Paper Manufacturing Co., announced plans to invest $17 million to create a recycled cardboard packaging facility that would generate 61 new jobs over the course of three years. The announcement has been welcomed by Jackson County officials, including Commissioners’ […]
Day: May 6, 2009
Students Represent WCU at NCUR
From April 16 to April 18, a record number of WCU students attended the National Conference of Undergrad Research. Forty-eight student projects were accepted to the annual conference, held this year in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The students endured a seventeen hour-long bus ride to reach the conference. According to Dr. […]
Tobacco-rich North Carolina Reaches for Partial Smoking Ban
North Carolina, one of the nation’s top tobacco growing states, supports legislation that would prohibit secondhand smoke from restaurants and businesses where minors are present, and also give bars the choice to permit patrons to smoke. “As a non smoker, I don’t care. This legislation doesn’t affect me and since […]
News From Washington
On Tuesday, April 21, President Barack Obama approved an increase in the number of troops in Afghanistan, which will allow for an additional 17,000 U.S. military personnel, around 8,000 of which will be coming from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. “This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, […]
North Korea Withdraws from Arms Talks after UN Censure
Following criticism from the United Nations, the United States and Japan over a disputed rocket launch, North Korea quit negotiations on nuclear disarmament and announced plans to restart nuclear facilities after expelling UN and US nuclear inspectors from the country. The French news agency, Agence France-Presse, has quoted North Korea’s […]
Educational Reform in Urban Schools
#8220;You can’t teach! Everyday it’s something. Mornings the kids come in, there’s been a shooting or something, and that’s all they’re thinking about. It doesn’t matter what techniques you use, it doesn’t make any difference. It’s because the community is dysfunctional; the parents are dysfunctional; and so are the kids.” […]
Why You Should Care About Local Music
One of the things that separates Cullowhee from other college towns is a lack of active involvement by students in the local arts scene. We complain that there’s nothing to do here, that Western lacks the personality of bigger college towns such as Athens or Chapel Hill. To some degree, […]
Changing The World Through Writing
Most of us spend our college years doing assignments that we feel do not accomplish anything. For the first time in my college career, I had a professor ask more of my class. He encouraged us to change our world through writing. Sitting in Professor Brian Lawrence’s English 414 class, […]
An Interview with Mel Chin, Neo Conceptual Artist
On Tuesday, March 17, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mel Chin, neo conceptual artist. Chin is mostly known for his collaborative work that often involves the help of the community to restore some facet of their environment, breaking down barriers between what we know as art. He incorporates […]
The Green Light Column
Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? What about the “trash island”? Or maybe the term “plastic ocean” has crossed your mental radar. A gyre is, according to Merriam-Webster, a giant, circular oceanic surface current. The NPG is an immense clockwise current that is between the U.S. and Japan […]
