By Amanda Peralta Assistant Editor Wake Forest University is one of many colleges that will no longer require applicants to summit SAT and ACT scores, hoping to call the importance of standardized testing into question. According to CollegeBoard.com, the SAT Reasoning Test is the nation’s most widely used admissions test […]

By Danielle LightnerStaff Writer This summer, several groups of entering freshman and transfer students have attended Western Carolina University’s orientation program in an overall endeavor to learn more about Western and what to expect when they begin or continue their college experience in the fall. As freshman enrollment at Western […]

By Parker MillarNews Editor Even though Presidential Hopeful John McCain has a net worth of $40.4 million dollars. $24.6 million from “miscellaneous trusts”, $7.4 from family companies, his wife’s retirement plan is worth $2.1, he owns one million in real estate, lives in a $3.9 million dollar house, and has […]

Duke Energy, one of the largest electric utilities providers in the nation, is also the third largest user of pulverized coal technology that does not allow for the control of carbon dioxide or mercury emissions. After the release of films like Al Gore’s “An Inconvienent Truth” seems to have woken […]

A Sampling of Upcoming Music in Your Area: Thursday June 19 . John Patrick Williams – Guadalupe Café – Sylva . Duende Mountain Duo – The Emerald Lounge – AshevilleFriday June 20 . Friends & Fiends – Guadalupe Café – Sylva . Mark Kozelek (Early) and Centro-matic (late) – The […]

What is the genesis of fear? What elements are necessary to make an individual not just jump out of his or her seat, but look over his or her shoulder and lock the bedroom door the following night? The Strangers is a story of Kristen McKay (played by Liv Tyler) […]

The Afromotive is a quickly rising ten-piece band out of Asheville North Carolina. Their music is funky and energetic, danceable and deeply infused with traditional West African rhythms. The band is currently enjoying the release of their debut album Scare Tactics, recorded and produced by WCU music school alumni Jacob […]

#8220;Is everyone afraid? Is everyone ashamed?” So begins “Doomsday Clock” the first track from Zeitgeist, the first new release by Chicago’s giants of alternative rock, Smashing Pumpkins. The “Doomsday Clock” is a symbolic clock face maintained since 1947. It uses a clock as an analogy to describe how close the […]

Upcoming Local Events Vortex Music Festival June 27th&28thAsheville Civic CenterThis is going to be a great event, featuring local and regional artists including Perpetual Groove, DubConscious, Telepath, Laura Reed and Deep Pocket, Toubab Krewe, Yo Mama’s Big Phat Booty Band, and many more! Music will be starting at 6p.m. on […]

In the past year, a Western Carolina University Branding Project Board has been steady at work changing the current institutional and athletic logos that the University uses in printed material, media, athletics and other advertisements. Students have been watching as their campus slowly transforms buildings, roads and admissions processes all […]