My love for Coheed and Cambria put my brother and me in a predicament we always told ourselves we would never put ourselves in. That predicament is being at a Slipknot concert, not because we necessarily disdain the music they have created in the past ten years, but because of […]
Author: Jon Benton
A Look at the WCU Football Team’s 2009 Signing Day
Western Carolina head football coach Dennis Wagner announced on Tuesday, Feb. 3 the signing of 20 student-athletes to National Letters of Intent to play football for the Catamounts beginning next season. WCU inked 12 offensive players and eight on defense as a part of National Signing Day. “You never really […]
Lady Catamounts Hold Strong in Loss to Clemson
The Western Carolina women’s basketball team could not come from behind on Wednesday, Feb. 3 to beat Clemson in their final non-conference contest of the season, falling 73-64 in the Ramsey Center. Western Carolina struggled early as it lost the inside presence of key player Brooke Johnson who picked up […]
Bulldogs Too Much for Catamounts to Handle
Coming off a last second win against the College of Charleston, Western Carolina was looking to continue their winning ways against The Citadel on Saturday, Feb. 7. The Catamounts hosted in the Citadel in the second part of a double header, which saw the Lady Catamounts take care of rival […]
WCU Women’s Basketball Team Pound Appalachian State
The Lady Catamounts basketball team pounded Appalachian State in the Ramsey Center on Saturday, Feb. 7 to gain some retribution for the men’s team who fell to the Mountaineers last month. When the Appalachian Stated rolled into town, they were looking to prolong Western Carolina’s three game losing streak, but […]
What’s In A Name: E.J. Whitmire Stadium and Bob Waters Field
(Editor’s Note: The following is the third of a series of articles where Western Carolinian writers report on why the athletic facilities at WCU are named after who they are.) In 1974, a brand new football stadium was opened on the campus of Western Carolina University, and it still stands […]
Faculty Profile: Dr. Laura Wright
Dr. Laura Wright is an assistant professor in the English department, and is the Director of Graduate Studies in English at Western Carolina University. She received her undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University, her MA from East Carolina University, and her PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She […]
Slaves to the Traffic Light
I did it again this morning: pointless stop lighting. You know what I mean, sitting at a stoplight from which you can see all intersecting points for hundreds of feet and there is no one coming from either direction and no one to use the lights that are now green. […]
Manners Honored as North Carolina Athletic Training Educator of the Year
Jill Manners, associate professor and clinical education coordinator for Western Carolina University’s athletic training program, has been named the 2009 North Carolina Athletic Training Educator of the Year by the North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association. Manners, a resident of Cullowhee, joined the WCU faculty in 2004. She holds a bachelor’s […]
A Follow-Up of the October 20 Bear Incident on Western’s Campus
Once having caused a huge uproar, the infamous WCU bear incident of October 20, 2008 has transformed into nothing more than a hushed memory, a memory that Western Carolina University would prefer to repress. Although the incident was dismissed as a “prank” by administration, two students, questioned by the campus […]
