Bent over a wooden table littered with textbooks and sheets of tattered instructions, a Western Carolina senior clicks incessantly on her keyboard, eyes glazing over from looking at the same computer screen for hours—or is it sleep deprivation that is causing her eyes to cross? Creating lesson plan after lesson plan, Jessica Shearin, an Elementary […]
Archives for November 2015
Reading Rover meets Jack the Dipper
November 16, 2015 by
Eating ice cream wasn’t the only thing intended for at the Jack the Dippers in Sylva on Nov. 14. The well-known ice cream store hosted a fundraiser for the Reading Rover bookmobile. The bookmobile is a bus that travels around the Jackson, Macon and Swain counties to provide preschoolers and child cares the chance to hear […]
Show Review: Laura Marling @ The Orange Peel
November 16, 2015 by
“So what kind of music does she play?” asked one of my concert companions as she cut a chunk off of her free-range chicken tender. The three of us decided to catch up over a true Asheville classic –Farm Burger—before making the trek over a few blocks to the Orange Peel. I find myself in […]
WCU Military Student Services and SVA work together to support veterans
November 15, 2015 by
What happens when military students are called to active duty while they are at school? How does someone withdraw from classes while they are heading to a foreign country? How do military students transition into college life after being involved in an entirely different world? America honors military members on Veterans Day, but Western Carolina University […]
Base Camp skydiving adventure
November 10, 2015 by
Author works for Base Camp. “We have a problem,” said my instructor, Peanut, with no trace of panic in his voice. We had just opened up the parachute, and before he said this I was just screaming in excitement. Before I knew it, we were free falling …again. I was still clueless and continued screaming […]
The one-man show Mercy Killers coming to WCU
November 10, 2015 by
Michael Milligan will perform his one-man show Mercy Killers on WCU campus at 7:30 pm, Thursday, Nov. 12, in in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. The play is a story of Joe, a beloved husband, who finds himself fighting the U.S. healthcare system while his wife is dying of cancer. The […]
