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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
If you once thought the famous WCU marching band director Bob Buckner would never retire, think again. After the recent booming success the Pride of the Mountains marching band has experienced, first the receiving of the Sudler Trophy then the invitation to march in the 2011 Tournament of Roses parade, […]
(Editor’s Note: A more indepth article about Chancellor Bardo’s retirement with reaction from faculty, staff and students will appear later.) John W. Bardo, who guided Western Carolina University through a period of unprecedented growth in student enrollment, campus construction and academic stature during 15 years as the institution’s 10th […]
#8220;We don’t have to worry about censorship, relying on funding from the university, or the risk of being closed down,” said Erica Peel, Newsroom Advisor for The Daily Tar Heel. We used this quote on the front page of the Oct. 8 newspaper in an article about UNC System schools […]
64 students at Western Carolina University are looking at a possible increase in tuition fees because they are not from the United States. Bill Daughtridge, a board member for the UNC system, is preparing a study to see whether it would be “equitable” for international students to pay a higher […]
Two WCU nurse anesthesia students presented their graduate student research in a conference poster at the national conference for the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists in August in Seattle. The title of their research was: “What Pharmacologic Characteristics of Propofol Contribute to its Use as Drug of Abuse?” The […]
Bed bugs have recently begun to surface all across the United States and are now being found in hotels, apartment complexes, hospitals, and even college dorms. A few years ago bed bugs were virtually non-existent and were only a part of a bedtime myth. Now, they are affecting colleges and […]
Asheville attorney Steve Warren was re-elected chair of the Western Carolina University board of trustees as the first action of the board’s opening meeting of the 2010-11 academic year. Warren will serve his second consecutive one-year term as board chair, and his fourth overall. He previously served two terms as […]
Arledge Armenaki, Western Carolina University associate professor of cinematography, is recipient of a Telly Award for his work as director of photography on “Wesley,” a historical movie about a co-founder of the Methodist church. Armenaki won the bronze prize in the category of creative lighting, one of four Telly Awards […]
Next summer Harrill Hall will undergo an extreme makeover that will include a new look and several “green” features. Western Carolina’s Department of Facilities Planning Design and Construction has decided to renovate Harrill Hall in a process that will take about 15 months to complete and will begin around March […]
The murder trial of Edwardo Wong began on Sept. 3 after nearly three weeks of jury selection. Wong is being charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of state Trooper David Shawn Blanton Jr. during a traffic stop on Interstate 40 near Canton on July 17, 2008. Blanton’s murder […]
