Mark Sterner shares eye-opening story with WCU students

To support alcohol awareness, several WCU students gathered to listen to Mark Sterner, a brother of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, who had quite a tragic story to tell.

University leadership team outlines budget strategies

A budget discussion was held on Jan. 31 in the Fine and Performing Arts Center to provide faculty, staff and students an opportunity to hear possible budget-reduction strategies from the university’s senior leadership team, and a chance to give feedback and suggestions.

Get involved with service learning

Service Learning at Western Carolina University has great opportunities for students to get involved and practice the real world skills of their major. Visit servicelearning.wcu.edu for more information.

The future of the WCU marching band

At the end of the Spring 2011 semester the band will be searching for new leadership following director Bob Buckner’s retirement

How you can get involved

The annual Service Learning Fair is organized so that representatives from local organizations come and inform people about how they can get involved in particular organizations. This year there were 42 organizations that participated in the event at WCU. Service learning is a major part of a college curriculum that many students know nothing about. What […]

Semester kick off for the First Amendment

The Western Carolinian hosted the first celebration of the semester for the First Amendment. Guest speaker Attorney Frank LoMonte, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center, presented his thoughts on our right to express ourselves and talked about several laws that are limiting that freedom. LoMonte explained the provisions of the Hazelwood law, established […]