Western Carolina University’s Homecoming 2016 kicks off Monday, Oct. 24, under the “Purple Reigns” theme, with activities and performances scheduled for each day of the week. The notable Homecoming activities include concerts, a comedy show, the Homecoming parade and the football game. The Catamount Walkabout, an event designed to raise awareness of the Samaritan’s Feet organization […]
Flu season arrives in Cullowhee
October 18, 2016 by
An altered version of this story was published in The Sylva Herald. As flu season begins, WCU students and community members are urged to get their flu shot. WCU’s health services starts a prevention campaign as students come back from fall break, with flu shots available in Bird Building and mobile flu clinics through October. […]
WCU hosts the “Dangerous Faggot Tour”
October 13, 2016 by
This story was co-written with Meghan O’Sullivan. Audience members cheered as guest speaker, Milo Yiannopoulos, spoke fervently against feminism, Islam, Black Lives Matter and liberals. Through his growing popularity, he has incited protests, anti-Milo committees and been permanently banned from Twitter in an attempt to silence his dialogues that can be taken very offensively. Yiannopoulos, a […]
Noble Hall creates headaches for firefighters
October 10, 2016 by
This story was co-written by Haley Smith and Meghan O’Sullivan. Originally published in The Sylva Herald. Some numbers have been updated. Volunteer firemen have rushed to Western Carolina University 54 times since the begining of August, because of malfunctioning fire alarms at new Noble Hall. “They tell me that they’re working to try to figure it […]
Negativity, not positivity, influences 2016 voter turnout
October 4, 2016 by
Remember 2008? That year, a young Democrat was elected president after galvanizing voters around the positive ideas of “hope” and “change.” Negativity will be the main factor driving American voters to the polls this November. According to the analysis from website FiveThirtyEight, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have the two lowest favorability ratings of […]
UC presidential debate viewing party leaned toward Clinton
September 27, 2016 by
In a history-making presidential debate, Trump and Clinton came together on the stage for the first time this election season for a full 90 minutes. It was the most viewed and most tweeted debate in history exceeding 84 million viewers and 10.3 million tweets, setting the bar higher than it ever has been in the […]
