Catamount spreads school spirit the country way through hot fashion, good food and lots of laughs. On Thursday, October 20, the highly anticipated Homecoming events of 2011 finally kicked off at Western Carolina University. A float-building event was held on the U.C. Lawn from 5-8.30p.m. Students filled the lawn, carrying giant pieces of cardboard and […]
Archives for October 2011
Turnovers doom Cats; fall to Chattanooga
Western Carolina lost its fifth game of the season Saturday night, falling to Chattanooga, 52-7, in the homecoming game for the Mocs. Both the Catamounts and Mocs entered the night winless in SoCon play and the game was expected to be close down to the wire. It was not however, as the Catamounts committed five […]
WCU Not-so-handicap parking
At WCU there are over 5,000 parking spots on campus. Nearly 100 of those spots are reserved for handicap students and faculty. However, this does not appear to be enough. There have been several complaints going around the university claiming students and faculty who are not handicap, take the parking spaces at their own convenience. […]
After Poverty Project launch, students unclear about goals
The second event of WCU’s Poverty Project, a movie entitled “Inside Job”, was held at the end of September in the UC Theater, yielding less than 20 people and only a handful of those being students. The movie focuses on the economic crisis of 2008 and how key players on Wall Street bargained, made corrupt […]