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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
All Boy Scouts attending Camp Daniel Boone in Haywood County are being continuously checked for swine flu after 19 scouts were sent home early last month after showing its symptoms, ten of which tested positive for the swine flu virus. Recently, there has been only one swine flu case following […]
Justin Caudell was named Editor-in-Chief of the Western Carolinian during the 2009 spring semester. An award-winning reporter before joining the staff, Justin has been with the Crossroads Chronicle newspaper in Cashiers, North Carolina for eight years. He first joined the paper as a weather reporter in 2003 and became a […]
In order to keep up with the global economy, Western Carolina University has decided to restructure the MBA program. “By the time students in other countries create MBA programs, they will have roughly five years of business education compared to as little as two years in US business programs. We […]
In recent weeks, the Western Carolina Police Department has been putting up more surveillance cameras around campus to monitor goings on of student life. Or rather, anything that may be out of the ordinary. Their intent is to be able to see more of what goes on so that they […]
Webster local Dr. Mary Adams not only teaches English, but rescues animals as well. Along with fellow volunteers, the ARF (Animal Relief Friends) organization (Jackson County’s Humane Society) rescues animals from shelters, roads, and the community. ARF is all-volunteer and has a no-kill policy. On Saturdays, adoptive parents gather just […]
According to statistics, the United States makes up only 5% of the world’s population and yet one-third of the world’s soda consumption. The Senate Finance Committee is banking on Americans’ love of soda to help pay for a revamp of the nation’s health care, and is pushing for a tax […]
Western Carolina and head cheerleading coach Kim Cherry-Beck recently announced the 2009-10 Catamount cheer squad. One of the largest squads in recent history, the 26-member squad has representation from four states including 23 from North Carolina and one apiece from Georgia, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. “I have been a […]
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#8220;You are graduating into a world of anxiety and uncertainty.” Those were the words from Vice President Joe Biden to the graduates of Syracuse University recently, and a lot of the numbers back him up. Like a lot of their parents in the early 1980’s, the graduates of 2009 are […]
