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Monday, June 30, 2025
(Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth part of a series of articles looking at the lives of WCU faculty and staff before they were educators.) What was your high school mascot? The Tigers? The Bulldogs? The Mustangs? Western Carolina University’s assistant professor of Spanish and French Dr. James […]
For the second time, WCU hosted a fun-filled concert that featured the acoustic talent of Corey Smith who performed in the Ramsey Center on Thursday, Sept. 10. Once again, students near and far arrived to the Ramsey Center in style to eagerly await a performance that certainly didn’t disappoint. […]
Western Carolina University will mark five years of art and entertainment at the Fine and Performing Arts Center with a gala featuring art, music and a theatrical revue of songs by George and Ira Gershwin on Friday, Oct. 22. Tickets for the event are on sale now. “It is time […]
On Sept. 10 and 12, Western Carolina University’s School of Stage and Screen, and the Musical Theatre Program presented the musical performance of ‘Seven Deadly Sins and Other Vices.’ The production was split into two parts. The first half of the show spotlighted songs from popular musical theater that illustrated […]
Tickets are currently on sale at Western Carolina University for a December re-creation of a 1938 Campbell’s Playhouse radio adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” that starred the legendary Orson Welles. The WCU production will use Welles’ personal script and will star Arthur Anderson, who will reprise his role of the […]
Almost anyone who hears the words “band camp” tends to smirk and think of nerdy kids in funny hats with overly big instruments. While this may be true about other marching bands, Western Carolina University’s marching band camp is known for being excruciating, thus revealing a newfound, un-nerdy respect for […]
A Western Carolina University alumni, former Catamount coach, and current head volleyball coach for the University of Alabama, Judy Green, will be retiring on July 01, 2011, after 14 years and 15 seasons with The Crimson Tide. With the upcoming milestone in her career approaching fast, Green took time to […]
This semester, Western Carolina University is getting bigger, better, and more diverse in what they are offering students in the world of music, movies and entertainment. Rotimi Ariyo, faculty advisor for Last Minute Productions, thinks it’s “important to get out and meet other students… and having fun. It (college) […]
Nicole McRight, who graduated from Western Carolina University’s communication sciences and disorders program this spring, recently received a statewide award for student educational achievement. Presented by the North Carolina Speech, Hearing and Language Association, the award is given on the basis of academic excellence and merit. The student recipient must […]
New Catamounts, chances are you have hundreds of questions, and you may not have anyone to ask. To help you transition from high school to college, the Western Carolinian staff, comprised of college students ourselves and many of whom are about to graduate, would like to pass along some of […]
