To say that the Western Carolina University community needs the repairs that the bond money will subsidize is a gross understatement. This campus is in dire need of some serious work. Roofs are caving in, heaters aren’t heating, and several classrooms are bereft of much needed equipment. The money will […]

In their first series of the 2001 season, head coach Todd Raleigh and the Western Carolina baseball team dropped three games to the eleventh-ranked Auburn Tigers this weekend in Auburn, Alabama. “Going into Auburn playing the number 11 team on the road in front of 3,000 fans, it’s no easy […]

Western Carolina will play six home football games, including its home opener on August 30, and travel to the University of Louisville (September 8) during the 2001 season, it was announced. The schedule features three consecutive games versus teams that finished the 2000 season ranked among the nation’s top 25. […]

Catamount athletic teams are hoping to have an extra player on the lineup at upcoming sports competitions in the form of a new student booster club. The booster club will be a student-organized group dedicated to the enthusiastic support of Western’s intercollegiate basketball and football games, both at home and […]

The past week has been a conglomeration of ideas and happenings: a proverbial mixed fruit cobbler, if you will. So, in an attempt to sort through the mumbo jumbo and make sense of everything, Got Hook? is here for you, the reader. Enjoy. Catamount Baseball The Diamond Cats kicked off […]

As you open the glass door and step inside, you enter a world of sight and sound. A world of colors and light. A world where all sorts of music is at your fingertips. You have entered In Your Ear Music Emporium. However, if you have ventured into the store […]

Creativity is a word that is very important to Western students, especially when they are describing the Cullowhee night life to their friends in Boone, Chapel Hill and everywhere else on earth. Sometimes it takes a creative imagination to navigate the life of a student or life in general. And […]

The history of the Parliament Funkadelic is a funny, and sometimes confusing thing. Break-ups and reconstructions of the band have resulted in, at this humble reporter’s count, three different incarnations of the P-Funk. The first, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, is spearheaded by the lively dreadlocked singer. Billy “Bass” […]

Aries: Love may be working its charms on you this week, no matter how much you try to fight it. Always independent and frustrated with commitments, Arians will often ignore a good thing when it comes along. Be wary you aren’t making that mistake now. Taurus: With a determined spirit, […]

With all of the crappy lovey-dovey chick flicks that seem to rear their ugly heads around Valentine’s Day, I thought, “how refreshing; a horror movie. One based on a book, no less. This should be good.” How very wrong I was. “Valentine,” directed by Jamie Blanks (“Urban Legend”) stars a […]