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You might think that three Western Carolina students would never be able to band together and create their own feature film, but it has recently become the goal of three Motion Picture and Television Production seniors who are determined to create a film that will “wow” WCU and prove to […]
Tickets went on sale Monday, Feb. 28, for a concert featuring two up-and-coming acts in the world of country music appearing soon at Western Carolina University. Eric Church will be performing live with special guest The Band Perry at WCU’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 14. […]
If you were proactive enough to snag a ticket for WCU’s School of Stage and Screen “Reasons to Be Pretty” on opening night, then chances are you enjoyed it. Romantic songs were played before the opening, and the audience buzzed with excitement. The lights dimmed. Two actors exploded from the […]
Mark A. Stoffan has joined Hunter Library as head of digital, access, and technology services, and Peter Johnson is the new head of access services. Stoffan comes to WCU from The Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he was associate director for library technology at Strozier Library for the past […]
The 16-member search committee tasked with helping select Western Carolina University’s next chancellor met Tuesday, Feb. 15, to discuss the top candidates for the job and determine who will be invited to participate in off-campus interviews. The committee, working with the Baker and Associates executive recruitment firm and with Ann […]
N.C. Republican legislators are beginning to push for a law that could help pay for some North Carolina students to attend private or home schools beginning from kindergarten and going through the 12th grade. Paul Stam, of Apex, N.C., the G.O.P. leader in the state House, is behind the proposal, […]
A high school student recently dissed his teacher on his Facebook status and got away with it thanks to his First Amendment rights. According to the Los Angeles Times, when Donny Dunlap from California called out his biology teacher for giving too much homework on the favored networking website Facebook, […]
Volunteers are being sought to help relocate rivercane from the Western Carolina University area to a site near Cherokee as part of the university’s Rivercane Restoration Project. The work to transplant the rivercane will take place in March and April as volunteers pitch in to move the plants from locations […]
Scenes from The Second City’s comedy performance at the Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011.
A January snow storm that shut down Western Carolina University for two days to start the spring semester meant big business for a Western North Carolina ski slope.
