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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Western Carolina University welcomed over 700 guests on Saturday, Oct. 24, for an open house despite COVID cases climbing to record highs this semester. During the week of open house, 69 positive cases were reported. That is the highest weekly positive case count the university has seen all semester. Additionally, 40 students […]
Last week, the university released the updated plans for commencement for Dec. graduates. The email that students received was a little vague, and simply summarized the updates that can actually be found on WCU’s website. It wasn’t until later in the day when scrolling through Facebook, that the uproar and […]
The Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University has a new exhibit open that showcases the legacies of the women behind the 19th Amendment. The exhibit titled, Rightfully Ours: Women’s Suffrage in Western North Carolina, features three parts focusing on the national struggle for voting rights, local suffragists, and on-campus […]
When The Daily Tar Heel called this whole situation a clusterfuck, they were on to something. A majority of students would’ve been able to tell you that we saw this coming. Yet, the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) chose to continually ignore students, experts, faculty and staff concerns, pleas and […]
On Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 7:30 pm Western Carolina University’s School of Music hosted Fred Hamilton, guitarist and composer, to perform at the Recital Hall in Coulter. According to the program pamphlet, Hamilton was a former educator of undergraduate and graduate jazz improvisation from 1989-2017 at the University of North […]
Students, coaches and audiences anxiously awaited the arrival of Bryant and all those aboard the helicopter to a youth basketball tournament, hosted at Kobe Bryant’s basketball academy. That was an arrival that would never happen. On Jan. 26, 2020, Kobe Bryant passed away in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. […]
It all seemed so promising; until it didn’t. The pieces all seemed to fit perfectly; until they didn’t. The team looked poised for a deep run; until it didn’t. After an almost magical start to the 2019-20 College Basketball Season, the Western Carolina Catamounts have come down to earth a […]
The Western Carolina University Fine Arts Museum is featuring “Time and Again: Glassworks by Kit Paulson and SaraBeth Post.” The exhibition will last through May 1, 2020. Post and Paulson use various techniques to construct glass into pieces that explore time, history, memory and the antique. Many of the pieces […]
Western Carolina University “waltzeds” to the leader board at the Cackalacky Ballroom Challenge. On Feb. 8, the WCU Ballroom Dance Club traveled to Raleigh for their first dance competition of the decade, and they had one of their most successful competitions to date. For some background information, Western’s ballroom team […]
The Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University hosted an intimate look into the lives of local drag queens. The event was moderated by Dean Paulk, Assistant Director of Intercultural Affairs. Refreshments were provided to the crowd of over 50 people. Paulk started off the session with a quick introduction […]
