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Sunday, June 29, 2025
Western Carolina University football player Toren Gerald Gordon, 21, is in the Haywood County Jail charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of an Asheville man outside Thunder Ridge nightclub in Maggie Valley on Dec. 7. Gordon is being held under a $500,000 secured bond and is scheduled to […]
Elizabeth Dole, Republican candidate to replace Sen. Jesse Helms in one of the two North Carolina senate seats, visited WCU this past Thursday, January 10. “We were ecstatic and honored that Elizabeth dole could visit the campus, and that SGA and College Republicans could collaborate to help educate faculty, staff, […]
o With weight loss, the blood pressure stays down and stays down a lot.o Americans are getting a little fatter each year due to greater food intake and less exercise.o Buying special products, supplements or formulas for a fad diet will only decrease the size of your wallet.o Being angry […]
Women’s Soccer Earns Season’s End Honors Sophomore Jordan Howell and junior Nardia Moore have been selected to the Soccer Buzz All-Southeast Region team after leading Western Carolina to the top of the Southern Conference. Howell was named to the publication’s second team, while Moore earned third team honors. Howell (Southern […]
At times, the position of athletic director can be a very difficult one. Day in and day out, one is forced to make decisions that will affect the university’s athletic programs in hopes of trying to build strong athletic teams. Western’s former head coach Bill Bleil did not leave much […]
THE INTRAMURAL PROGRAM is hiring student basketball officials during January for spring semester, 2002. If you are interested, please drop by the Intramural Office 130, Reid Gym or call Mike or Debby at 227-7477. Pay will be $6.00 per hour and up depending on experience. THE INTRAMURAL TEAM (M &W) […]
Western Carolina topped Appalachian State in Boone 79-71 Monday night for the first time since January of 1996, the same year the Catamounts earned a berth to the NCAA Tournament. The win also snapped an 11-game losing streak to the Mountaineers and was the first time any current member of […]
In all my years at Western Carolina University, first for four years of undergraduate studies and now grad school, I’ve always had one dream; to see the big black plexiglass building wall-to-wall with hysterical Catamount fans. I did finally get my opportunity on May 12, 2001 at 2pm when I […]
Driving back along Interstate 40 from holiday visiting, I noticed a flash of bright red, white and blue in the grassy median. Then another. Then more. I kept glancing, in disbelief. There, in the ditch, along with beer cans and fast food wrappers were American flags. They were not posted […]
How absurd-the very thought that anyone can become a teacher by being trained to teach! What good is it to have the ability to handle children in an excellent manner and have nothing to teach? Mrs. Juanita Wolf, Native Cherokee Indian, told me, personally, that the reason Indian schools were […]
