Campbell University held off a late second-half run to defeat Western Carolina, 83-74 in women’s basketball action Monday night at the Ramsey Center. The defending Trans-America Athletic Conference champion Lady Camels (1-2) jumped out to an early lead, scoring the first seven points and en route to a 15-6 run […]

To quit well requires an intuitive sense of beauty; you have to feel the moment of turn, right when desire makes an appearance, here is the instant to be severed, whack, this is the moment where quitting is ripe as a peach turning sweet on the vine: snap, the cord […]

The sounds of sneezing and coughing resonate from the halls of Helder to the corridors of Coulter. Students, faculty, and staff rush to find a tissue. Fevers are rising, muscles are aching, and classes are being missed en masse. The Cullowhee Crud is back and it’s creeping into every classroom […]

The small Chelsea Gallery, tucked into a hallway space in the University Center is now one of the most exciting places to be on campus. The student art exhibit, which will open November 29, is waiting patiently for the throngs of viewers it should have, but inevitably won’t. The show […]

The chapters of Pi Kappa Phi and Lambda Chi Alpha at WCU have temporarily lost their university recognition pending investigations into two unrelated incidents which happened in the past months. This loss of university recognition means that the two groups cannot participate in university-sponsored activities, such as intramurals, and cannot […]

As temperatures in the region begin to drop, so do the body’s defenses against illness. Many try to avoid becoming sufferers by getting inoculated, especially against the flu. However, there is a critical shortage of the flu vaccine nationwide. WCU’s Health Services gave out two shipments of the vaccines for […]

Chancellor John Bardo announced a proposal for a new Biotechnology Research Center on Wednesday, November 8, at the Public Policy Institute conference. The Center, which WCU, Asheville-Buncombe Technological Community College, and UNC-Asheville will co-sponsor, will be located in the former BASF plant in Enka. The three institutions will be joined […]

The 2000 political season is officially over. Praises be to Allah. We can now breath a collective sigh of relief as our televisions and road ways will be cleansed of every sign and advertisement. No more annoying slogans, no more empty campaign trail promises, and no more duplicitous WASPs buzzing […]

With the passing of the bond referendum in North Carolina on Tuesday night, universities and community colleges stand to receive large sums of money to make improvements on campuses throughout the state. WCU will receive the $98.4 million that it was slated to gain under the bond, and it will […]

A WCU student was killed in the early hours of Saturday morning on a rural road near campus when he lost control of his car and it struck a tree. Benjamin Nathan, a 19-year old freshman at WCU, was driving a Volkswagen Beetle at 3 am Saturday on Weyehutta Road, […]