Cloudy skies and rainy weather didn’t stop hundreds of aspiring young students from coming to Western Carolina University’s first open house of spring semester on Saturday, Feb.20. Potential students piled into WCU for the events of the day, starting with registration at 8 a.m., an information fair in the Ramsey Center, a welcome session, academic sessions, an information […]
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Is the athletic fee costing students ‘an arm and a leg’?
February 22, 2016 by
Shouting “purple!”, “gold!” at the top of students’ lungs, stadiums full of nothing but purple shirts and painted faces. The tailgates and the catamount pride at Western Carolina University is all for the NCAA Division athletics the university participates in. But this pride comes with a price that some students are not too happy with. At WCU, students […]