Starting April 1, 2008 there will be a new payment system at Western Carolina. WCU is switching their online payment plan to PayPath Tuition Service, which accepts MasterCard, Discover, and American Express but will no longer take Visa cards. tarting April 1, 2008 there will be a new payment system […]

The Catamount baseball team gave nationally ranked Georgia Tech an early scare on March 4th, and proved themselves a tough competitor in the early 2008 season. Western jumped out to an early one to nothing lead off the bat of junior J.C. Lyons, who hit his third homer this year. […]

On Monday, November 12, Western Carolina Athletic Director Chip Smith announced that WCU head football coach Kent Briggs would be reassigned to another position at Western and the rest of the coaching staff would be replaced. The news does not come as a great surprise considering Western’s abysmal record of […]

Though fires are not incredibly uncommon, non-arson-induced wildfires in 2007 burned more violently, especially in the West. Destroying over a million acres of public, residential, and agricultural land, the fires were impossible to avoid and almost as difficult to extinguish. Most of us were aware of the Southern California fires […]

There are lots of perks about living on this side of the mountains, killer views around the corner of every trail, friendly folks always waiving as they pass by, and a wide array of outdoor activities awaiting in your own backyard but WCU graduate Lesley Fries decided there was still […]

The C.R.I.B. (Computer Resource and Information Bureau)The C.R.I.B. is now located in the Cat’s Den (formally Brown Cafeteria) and is open daily from 5:00pm – 10:00pm. At the C.R.I.B. you can get the same technical support you have received in the past, but you can now get one-on-one assistance at […]

Politicians are scum, all of them, without exception. Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Independents, Liberals and Conservatives, anyone in politics should be shunned. They should be captured in the middle of the night by men in full riot gear, beaten with clubs, stripped of their United States citizenry and dropped (from orbit, […]

It’s funny, it’s gross, and it’s disrespectful; that’s why Knocked Up is one of the best movies of 2007. How could anyone not like this film? To fully appreciate the humor of Knocked Up, you have to know a lot about the cast and the director. The majority of the […]

I think that we can all agree, regardless of party affiliation and varying degrees of apathy, that 2007 has been an interesting year for American politics. Of course, from an international point of view it’s all probably seemed terribly boring and petty in the timelines of historical events this year […]

We Polled WCU to see what YOU thought was the best & here are the results: Best of WCU -071st – Communications & Theater Department Split2nd – Einstein’s3rd – Off Campus Shuttle Worst of WCU ‘071st – Parking on Campus2nd – Construction on Campus3rd – Football Best EVENT of WCU […]