VIDEO: Greening Up The Mountains 2014

Jackson County’s 17th annual Earth Day celebration was a huge hit on Saturday and generated large amounts of revenue for the local economy. Everything went extremely well considering last year the event was cancelled due to a rain out. Check out this exclusive video of Greening Up The Mountains in Sylva on April 26, 2014. […]

Interview with leading actors of Les Miserables

  Production group: Bradley Lucore, producer; Patricia Brown, director; Dominic Chambers, talent; Joseph McCord and Temi-Tope Adeleye, technical directors; Norman Falls and Jason Walsh, tape managers; Darren Blackwell, prompter; Kellyann Donnelly, graphic design; Michael Williams, audio; Kanaan Greene, floor manager, Kayla Riek, Stephen Propst, Alexander Bennett, cameras.

Levern Hamlin Allen: Western Carolina University trailblazer

The year was 1957 – the landmark Board vs. Brown was just passed making racial segregation in public places like schools, universities, restaurants, restrooms and  transportation illegal. That summer a 23-year-old African-American woman, Levern Allen, attended Western Carolina University, making her the first black to not only attend WCU, but any North Carolina state college. Her […]

Mike Hill isn’t stopping to rest

Mike Hill originally came to Western Carolina University for the band, but as he plans for graduation in May 2014, he will be graduating with a degree from the Film and Television Production program. “I sort of wanted to do music, I sort of wanted to write – I didn’t really know what I wanted […]

WCU’s campus safety initiative

In collaboration with Dustin George With a record enrollment of 10,106 students and an estimated growing population, it can be hard to keep up with every detail or rule break that occurs daily. According to the WCU campus police website, between 2010- 2012 there has been a total of 70 Burglaries, 12 forcible sex violations […]

WCU Mountain Heritage Center: Preserving history

Western Carolina’s Mountain Heritage Center shares the history of the Appalachian Mountains and the University to the students and visitors. There are many exhibits of artifacts from the local community who were donated to the Center. The Mountain Heritage Center opened in 1979 using the collection of over 10,000 objects which were donated from local […]