GREENVILLE, SC – Western Carolina’s men’s rugby squad narrowly defeated Furman last Saturday in Greenville, their first Southern Conference contest of the season. The 10-8 win lived up to its billing as the Catamounts’ most difficult conference match-up of the year. The game’s opening half was a scoreless stalemate, as […]
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Cats Whip Keydets, 82-62
GREENVILLE, SC – The Western Carolina Catamounts fought for 35 of the allotted 40 minutes, but a 20-2 run by the Furman Paladins ended their two-game winning streak, 67-47 Monday night from Timmons Arena. WCU fell to 4-18 overall and a game back from other conference teams at 2-7. Furman, […]
Cats Sprint into Spring Season
The men’s and women’s track and field squads traveled to Johnson City, Tennessee to compete in the IKON Invitational, hosted by Southern Conference rival East Tennessee State University, last weekend. The highlight of the meet for the Cats was the performance of the men’s 4×400 relay team, which set a […]
Greensboro Slides Past Lady Cats
The Lady Cats had revenge on their minds Saturday afternoon going into their game against the Lady Spartans of UNC Greensboro (15-4, 9-1). However, the visiting team had other plans, shooting 54 percent in the second half and forcing 23 Western Carolina to prevail 71-54. The loss was Western’s second […]
Critically Acclaimed Poet Thomas Lux Visits WCU
One wave falling forward meets another wave fallingforward. Well-water, hand-hauled, mineral, cool,could bea kiss, or pasturesfiery green after rain, beforethe grazers. In this excerpt from “The Kiss,” critically acclaimed poet Thomas Lux lives up to the title “biographer of the ordinary” bestowed on him by Booklist for his volume New […]
A Penny for Thought: Suggestions For The Rocky Horror Show
Did you know that in Europe the stage show production of The Rocky Horror Show is more frequently performed and is better known than the movie version? Did you know that also in the stage version, there is no dinner scene? Typically there’s no throwing toast here either. But the […]
“Is That Your Wife? What a Lovely Neck…” – Nosferatu
Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)A Prana-film ProductionDirected by F.W. MurnauWritten by Henrik GaleenBased upon Dracula by Bram StokerStarring Max Schreck and Gustav von Wangenheim In this, the age of slick production, huge budgets and digital special effects, F.W. Murnau’s legendary work Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated, a Symphony […]
DepartMental:Anthropology and Sociology: The People Person’s Majors
If you think that you are a people person then wait until you get a load of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. In this department, people are the key and anything about human behavior is fair game. This department has two degree programs and a host of minors to […]
Bittersweet Frustrations with Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards
#8220;I don’t drink because I’m dry, baby, I drink because I’m blue. I tried pretty well this morning, I can’t get along with you. Said hey, baby, don’t you want to go-land of California, sweet home Chicago.” If those lines sound familiar, then one of the latest releases from Smithsonian […]
Java Man: How Today’s Discoveries Affect Tomorrow’s Understanding
Every semi-well-informed person knows a little something about archaeology, anthropology, and paleontology, even if he or she is not quite sure about the fields’ terminology. News of momentous discoveries like Lucy, thought to be the “missing link” between humans and their ape ancestors, or the Iceman, whose secrets scientists are […]
