“I can’t express to you how much this program means to me, how much the students, volunteers and staff have influenced and touched my life,” said two-year volunteer and now paid natural support for Western Carolina University’s University Participant Program (UP), Grayson Coleman. Coleman’s response is much like many other volunteer reactions when asked how […]
Archives for February 2016
Student government association seeks four new senators
February 15, 2016 by
Corrected 2:40 p.m. Feb. 16: An earlier version of this article had the senator application deadline as Feb. 16, it has been corrected to Feb. 17 The Student Government Association (SGA) at Western Carolina University is replacing four senators in the spring 2016 semester. Faculty adviser, Karen Farmer, said the four did not meet semester […]
Three wins in a row for Western
February 15, 2016 by
The Western Carolina University Men’s basketball team barely out scored the Samford University Bulldogs on Feb. 13 in the Ramsey Regional Activity Center at 4:30 p.m. The Cats beat Bulldogs 76-71 with starting senior guard, Rhett Harrelson leading the way. Harrelson scored 19 points in the game. “It’s always easier too when that first one […]
South African Apartheid exhibit offers a lesson of forgiveness
February 13, 2016 by
An earlier version of this story did not give credit to Hilary Lindler for providing the loan of the Amy Biehl materials and the 1994 election ballot to the exhibit. It has been corrected. Living in a country where democracy is so often taken for granted, it’s difficult to imagine a time and place where […]
Catamounts triumph over Mocs
February 12, 2016 by
The video was shot, edited, and produced by Calvin Inman. The Western Carolina University men’s basketball team won, despite a late rally by the University of Tennessee Chattanooga Mocs, Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Ramsey center, in front of a crowd of just under 2,000. The Catamounts started the game hot and established an early […]
A unique twist on coffee shop music
February 11, 2016 by
” To the windows, to the walls. To the sweat drop downs my b***s, To all these b*****s crawl. To all skeet skeet motherf*****s, all skeet skeet god d**n” This is how Dan Henig entertained an audience of around 30 people in UC Illusions, on Feb. 9, during his coffee house concert. Henig’s music is […]
