Well, schools over, I’m leaving, and WCU doesn’t offer any sports in the summer. Maybe we should. There’s a lot of undiscovered underwater basketweaving talent at this school just waiting to be unearthed. Bend those reeds! Anyway, since I’ve got nothing to talk about this week, I give you the […]
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WCU spring soccer summary
This is technically the off-season for the Lady Cats of Western Carolina University women’s soccer. If you asked them, however, the girls would tell you otherwise, as they have played in several exhibition tournaments in preparation for the fall season. The first exhibition tournament took place on Mar. 29 as […]
Catamounts Take Series over Georgia Southern
In a road series against the Georgia Southern Eagles April 19-20, the Lady Catamount softball team took two of the three games by solid pitchingand a tough offensive threat. Havingstruggled in conference this season, the series win was much needed for Western.In the first game of the series, Western started […]
Tigers too Tough for Catamounts
Solid pitching held Western to minimal offense and a 6-0 shutout against Clemson April 26. With the win the Tigers split the two game yearly series with the Catamounts. The Catamounts took the previous contest a week earlier 6-2 on the Tigers home field. Western has failed to sweep games […]
Students Making a Difference
Joel Marchesoni, Jenni Giles, Sarah Hipp, Kristi Whitehead and myself founded the WCU Green Party, formally the WCU Campus Greens, in spring of 2007. We sprang from all of ours desire to have another political party available on campus. Our “coming out” was the Wellness Fair that semester where we […]
Choosing the Bright Side
All over the United States, students attending college aim to get the best grades and get the most out of their education. Some of these students don’t have as easy a chore as others, though. Along with the stress of making the grade and the finances that college requires, a […]
Leatherheads Movie Review
George Clooney returns to the director (and actor) seat with Leatherheads, a straightforward homage to the smarmy ’20s culture and to the rise of professional football. Leatherheads stars Clooney as Jimmy “Dodge” Connolly, a guy who leads the Duluth Bulldogs, a rag-tag professional football team trying to make it big […]
New Club for Outdoor Lovers
New at Western Carolina is a club for students interested in fishing, and other outdoor activities. Cameron Street Hamrick and Jeff White brought Ducks Unlimited recently to this campus.”We’ve had an awesome turn out, everyone’s having a great time” said Hamrick.Ducks Unlimited has been a national organization since 1937. It […]
Catamounts Sweep Davidson
The Western Carolina baseball team brought the broomsticks with them in their home series sweep over conference foe Davidson April 5-7. The win brought the Catamounts to 15-15 overall and 5-4 in conference. The first game of the three game series originally set for Friday evening was postponed due to […]
Busted top 10
10 Of course, no one deserves to be the victims of theft, but Einstein’s Deli charges something like sixteen dollars for a plain bagel. I’m not saying stealing a purse full of plastic silverware and sweet and low packets is okay, I’m just saying that in terms of theft, there’s […]
