Welcome to my corner of the newspaper where I do nothing but complain (as we all know I enjoy it so) about totally random and useless things. This issue’s rant is on fashion horrors: what went wrong? Now, I’m no fashion expert (nor do I ever want to be), but […]

Being a freshman and adjusting to college is tough. Being a freshman, adjusting to college, and becoming a star for the volleyball team is even tougher. Catamount freshman Liz Rondone has shown her tremendous ability on the volleyball court and has turned into a defensive leader for the young Catamount […]

A 1,000 mile road trip to the Midwest provided the Catamount soccer team with two things they haven’t had this year: a goal and a win. During this long trip, the Lady Cats had plenty of scoring and got a couple of wins. The first game of this road trip […]

The Lady Catamount Soccer team returned to the .500 mark and won their first Southern Conference win of the season last week. Western started off the week against the 32nd-ranked Nebraska Cornhusker and took them to double-overtime before falling 1-0 in front of 352 fans at Nebraska Soccer field.Western Carolina […]

Both Catamount cross-country teams started out the season the way they started out last season: with strong finishes. The Ladies Cross Country team earned a 2nd place finish at the Clemson Cross Country Invitational, edging out Gardner-Webb by just a single point. The South Carolina Gamecocks won the event with […]

Things are heating up in the Catamount athletic department with football season starting and basketball right around the corner. But, most don’t hear about our Catamount cross country team. The Western Carolinian recently sat in with Josh Thompson on Power 90.5’s “The Litter Box” to speak with Danny Williamson, Western’s […]

In what was a tail of two halfs, the Western Carolina Catamounts upset #19 Eastern Kentucky, 20-17. Trailing 17-7 at halftime, it was hard to see anything that Western had done right. EKU held onto the ball for 21:07 in the first half, while the WCU only had the ball […]

Two minutes are left in the game. The championship is on the line. Your team is down 24-21, and you’re the only who can steer the team down for that game-winning score. You are the quarterback of the team. This is a dream that countless kids who play football have. […]

Crank can almost be called Transporter 3: The Crank as it stars the same actor (Jason Statham) as Transporter and Transporter 2. Statham plays the same type of character, an assassin. Not seeing Transporter or the 2nd one, this actor was unknown to me, but this was a good action […]

As Western Carolina University kicked off the 2006 football season on the last night of August, the only thing that was for certain was that Chowan was going to get massacred. The weather was not cooperating at all as it poured down rain all day leading up to the game […]