Want to help Will Rogers celebrate his 131st birthday? Lance Brown will perform his show “Will Rogers Now!,” a living history of the gentle wit and American hero, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University. Rogers, born Nov. 4, 1879, […]

Samantha Crotty was named Photo Editor of the Western Carolinian in September 2010 after serving as a staff writer for two full semesters. With a passion for Art, Samantha took a photography class while she studied abroad in Southern France.  After many lessons, she quickly mastered the art of photography, […]

Shelby Harrell was named Arts and Entertainment editor in fall of 2009 after she served as a Western Carolinian intern for the summer of 2009. She has since continued to be a successful Arts and Entertainment editor in which she incorporates a great deal more depth into the section. As […]

Nathan Hunzaker has worked as the lead designer for the Western Carolinian since June 2009. He headed the effort to redesign the paper in January 2010 and is passionate about design and enjoys solving difficult problems in a creative, visual form. Currently, Nathan also works as a graphic designer and […]

Lex Menz became News Editor in the fall semester of 2010 after working with the Western Carolinian for three semesters. A lover of theatre and film, she first signed on as an Arts and Entertainment contributing writer, then became a staff writer in the spring of 2010. In high school, […]

WCU 2020: Realizing the Vision, Planning for Our Preferred Future, is a new process that will be developed in three phases over the next few years to address where Western Carolina University is headed in the next ten years. As part of that overall process, “Campus Conversations” have taken place […]

(Editor’s Note: The following is the fifth part of a series of articles looking at the lives of WCU faculty and staff before they were educators.) Which one of your history professors graduated high school in 1987, which he refers to as “history’s greatest year for fashion and hairstyles?” Western […]

Western Carolina University is among six universities from across the nation to be recognized by the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars for exceptional commitment to civic engagement and service learning. The Washington Center named Western Carolina a recipient of a 2010 Higher Education Civic Engagement Award, which was […]

The studies that forensic science faculty members are planning for Western Carolina University’s new next-generation DNA sequencer could help introduce the technology into crime laboratory casework. WCU acquired and recently completed installation of a GS Junior System, an instrument that Roche Diagnostic Corp. launched globally in May. The instrument generates […]

Is it okay to kill animals just because they taste good? Why is it okay to feed a mouse but not a kitten to your pet boa constrictor? These are some of the questions Dr. Harold Herzog, a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, answered in his book “Some […]