#8220;Fly The Friendly Skies” “Travel,” they say with a reassuring smile. “Fly the friendly skies.” Oh, but the skies aren’t quite as friendly as they once were. Not when you have to sit next to an air marshal with a loaded gun and questionable training and background. Don’t worry, though, […]

Ok, so you are heading out on a long boring road trip this summer with your parents. What are you going to do during that ten hour stretch from North Carolina to Miami Beach? Sure once you get there (are we there yet?), you will have beaches, clubs, and hot-locals […]

With the summer finally rolling around and the weather getting more and more gorgeous every day, many students are starting to think about places they want to go and people they’d like to see before beginning their careers or coming back to school in the fall. Of course, being college […]

3 out of 5 stars Horror films, historically, have not been known for their wonderful plots or excellent acting. Only a few horror films have good plots and solid acting such as “Saw” or “The Descent”, while many more films fall into the stereotype of poor acting and writing such […]

When inclement weather threatened the crowd turn-out for Battle of the Bands on Wednesday April 11, LMP Music Coordinator Jason Eckard refused to let it get him down. Rain or shine, he was going to deliver the show he knew the students had been waiting for. The bands, too. The […]

On March 21, just three days after being crowned the champions of the Best Western Catamount Classic, the Catamounts headed to Boiling Springs, NC, for a double header against Gardner-Webb. The first game of the double header would not go according to plan for Western, as they were blanked by […]

After losing their two opening conference matches to Davidson and Wofford, the Catamount women’s tennis team returned to action on March 24 and 25 to battle with conference foes UNC-G and Georgia Southern. The Catamounts would lose the battles to The Spartans and the Eagles. UNC-G defeated WCU 7-0, while […]

Although their postseason was cut short in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament to Virginia Tech, the Lady Catamount basketball team has plenty of reason to be proud of the effort they put forth and of the season that they had.In the program’s 42-year history, the 2006-2007 […]

A week after picking up their 1st series sweep of the season, Western got swept in a battle of the projected top 2 teams in the conference. Two of the three games over the March 23rd-25th series were decided in the last at-bat for the home team, which resulted in […]

Western Carolina’s undefeated streak against the ACC came to an end on March 28 as the Clemson Tigers took an early lead and never looked back as they knocked off the Catamounts, 15-6 in front of 4,875 fans at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. The loss drops Western […]