Both Catamount cross-country teams started out the season the way they started out last season: with strong finishes. The Ladies Cross Country team earned a 2nd place finish at the Clemson Cross Country Invitational, edging out Gardner-Webb by just a single point. The South Carolina Gamecocks won the event with […]

Things are heating up in the Catamount athletic department with football season starting and basketball right around the corner. But, most don’t hear about our Catamount cross country team. The Western Carolinian recently sat in with Josh Thompson on Power 90.5’s “The Litter Box” to speak with Danny Williamson, Western’s […]

In what was a tail of two halfs, the Western Carolina Catamounts upset #19 Eastern Kentucky, 20-17. Trailing 17-7 at halftime, it was hard to see anything that Western had done right. EKU held onto the ball for 21:07 in the first half, while the WCU only had the ball […]

Two minutes are left in the game. The championship is on the line. Your team is down 24-21, and you’re the only who can steer the team down for that game-winning score. You are the quarterback of the team. This is a dream that countless kids who play football have. […]

Crank can almost be called Transporter 3: The Crank as it stars the same actor (Jason Statham) as Transporter and Transporter 2. Statham plays the same type of character, an assassin. Not seeing Transporter or the 2nd one, this actor was unknown to me, but this was a good action […]

As Western Carolina University kicked off the 2006 football season on the last night of August, the only thing that was for certain was that Chowan was going to get massacred. The weather was not cooperating at all as it poured down rain all day leading up to the game […]

The movie Invincible is your standard Disney sports movie that uses the underdog role to stir up emotion, but just like other Disney sports movies, it’s a success. Following the real life story of Vince Papale, a walk-on member of the Philadelphia Eagles who played special teams for the team […]

No one in the world loves me,I’m headed for danger, don’t trust strangers,Put one in the chamber whenever I’m feeling this anger,Don’t wanna make excuses, cause this is how it is,What’s the use unless we’re shooting no one notices the youth,It’s just me against the world Those lines from the […]

A new school year has arrived, and students have been busily unpacking and readying themselves for the semester. Lots of cars filled the streets of Cullowhee on move-in day, and most students have now settled into their dorms. Now that everyone is here, though, parking has turned into a problem […]

A trip to Hunter Library might as well be a prison sentence, shouldn’t it? After all, the library only has dry, boring material about ancient history and stale people, right? WRONG! Actually, Hunter has a collection of items that promise fun and good times, rather than the drudgery and hard […]