After holding open practice on Friday, head coach Kelli Harper and the Lady Catamounts’ three seniors, Lauren Powell, Kendra Eaton and Brooke Johnson, fielded questions from the media about how they were preparing for the game, how it feels to be in the NCAA Tournament and the match-up with Vanderbilt. […]
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Vanderbilt Game Notes
The No. 4 seed in the Raleigh Region, Vanderbilt (24-8, 10-4 SEC) is making its second consecutive trip to play its opening NCAA Tournament game in Albuquerque. Last year, Vanderbilt defeated No. 13 seed Montana and No. 5 seed West Virginia at The Pit to advance to the Sweet 16. […]
A Look at Tonight’s Contest
The Lady Catamounts will be looking to achieve something tonight they were not able to do in 2005 – advance in the NCAA Tournament. At 8pm Eastern, the 13 seeded Western Carolina women’s basketball team will square off against No. 4 seeded Vanderbilt in a first-round game at the Pit/Bob […]
Williams Brothers Sentenced For Bear Prank at WCU
Six months following a prank that put WCU in the global spotlight, two individuals that pleaded guilty to dumping a dead bear on campus in October with Barack Obama campaign signs on its head, found out their fate today, Tuesday, Mar. 10. Brothers Marvin Caleb Williams, of Wilksboro, who was […]
WCU Announces 2009 Football Schedule
Five home games and a season-opening road trip to Southeastern Conference foe, Vanderbilt, highlight Western Carolina’s 11-game 2009 Catamount football schedule released last week. The slate includes three teams which made the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs a season ago and a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) winner. “The 2009 […]
Vagina Monologues 2009
On Feb. 10 and 11, Western Carolina University presented its 6th annual production of the Vagina Monologues. The collection of monologues was written by Eve Ensler and is based on actual interviews with women of various ages and backgrounds. I recently sat down with Kaleb Xander Lynch, the director of […]
Watchmen: A History
Comic book fans, we’ve got another one– another superhero flick to round out last year’s “Iron Man” and “The Dark Knight”. Whether you’ve only just discovered the movie through the trailer or you’ve been an avid Alan Moore fan for years, you are probably highly anticipating “Watchmen,” hitting theaters on […]
Mel Chin, Internationally Renowned Artist, to Speak at WCU
Mel Chin, American conceptual artist, will come to speak at WCU on Tuesday March 17 at 4:00 pm in the Fine and Performing Arts center in room 130. Art students and art appreciators should without a doubt mark this in their calendars, as Chin is a very important artist of […]
DVD Pick of The Week
This country is in a state of reflection and deep repair. We are in the throws of the worst economic crisis in a long while; we are coming off the coattails of George W. Bush, and we are moving into a new and exciting time in which artistic expression is […]
EDITORIAL: Required Community Service Is A Bad Idea
In a reflection seminar with students, which was among a slate of Martin Luther King Jr. events held at WCU in late January, Chancellor John Bardo made a call to students to become involved with community service. He added that community service should be a requirement of every major at […]
