Day: May 6, 2009

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WCU Stage and Screen to Present Annual Dance Showcase

Western Carolina University’s department of stage and screen will present its spring dance showcase at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center. The program is titled “A Moveable Feast: An Evening of Dance and Musical Theatre Works.” It will feature dance numbers by WCU’s dance […]

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WCU Men’s Golf Improves to Finish Third at 2009 SoCon Championship

Western Carolina overcame a seven-stroke deficit on Wedneday, April 21 to finish third overall, while two Catamounts finished within the top five at the 2009 Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship. Junior Tanner Briele finished tied for second place at one-under 71 on the final round for a 211. Ricky Stout […]

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Brown Earns State Athletic Trainers Scholarship

Western Carolina University student Daniel Davis Brown II of Durham recently received one of three North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association Presidential Scholarships for Leadership. Brown graduated from Northern High School in 2006 and his parents are Ken and Rhonda Brown. He expects to graduate in May 2010 with a bachelor’s […]

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WCU to Hold Two Spring Commencements

Western Carolina University will hold two spring commencement ceremonies to accommodate the largest graduating class in university history, with activities set for Friday, May 8, and Saturday, May 9, at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center. A record-breaking number of WCU students, approximately 1,110, is currently completing academic requirements to receive […]

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WCU to offer Tenth Annual Mountain Dulcimer Weekend

Western Carolina University is accepting registrations for its 10th annual Mountain Dulcimer Week, to be held June 21-26. “The mountain or Appalachian dulcimer is a stringed instrument that was developed by the pioneers who settled the Southern Appalachian Mountains,” said Lois Hornbostel, Mountain Dulcimer Week director. “It is easy to […]

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Communication Student Selected for Prestigious Media Sales Institute

For the sixth time since 2006, a Western Carolina University broadcasting student has been selected to attend the prestigious Media Sales Institute at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Terrence Tipps, a senior from Conover, was selected this spring through a competitive application process and will attend the institute May 11-21 […]

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The Day The Music Died

Remember back in the day when MTV would still give the illusion that they played music videos? Yeah, me neither, but at least at one point they did show these things called music videos and for a brief second they were in fact seen as a new and cool art […]

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Scott Huler at WCU’s Literary Festival

During the week long festivities of the Literary Festival this spring, I was fortunate to hear a reading from Scott Huler’s latest book, No Man’s Land. A journalist and previous National Public Radio (NPR) contributor, Scott Huler is said to have written about everything “from the death penalty to bikini […]

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Linda Gentille to Bring “American Piano Show” to WCU

Entertainer Linda Gentille, whom the late Liberace called the “piano princess,” will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 8, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.? Gentille’s “American Piano Show” features music of the great American composers, including George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Leonard […]