Backhoes, front-loaders, and excavators roam what was once a grassy plain behind Norton Road Hall. The 6-acre plot has been reduced to a red-clay wasteland as it is razed for the construction of new campus facilities. Curtis Monteith, WCU director of Design, Planning, and Construction, says multiple athletic facilities will be open for students by fall 2024. The […]
News writing course part of effort to keep local newspapers in circulation
March 22, 2023 by
Originally published by Julie Duvall on WCU Stories Students in Katerina Spasovska’s News Writing II course at Western Carolina University are getting real-world experience writing stories for the local newspaper, the Sylva Herald. Spasovska, an associate professor in WCU’s communication department, works with her students to do research, interviews and sit in on local government […]
The unseen side of fraternities
March 20, 2023 by
Story co-produced with Jake Harkey. When we talk greek life or especially fraternities, most of the time it is about partying, drinking or hazing. Now, there are a lot of valid reasons people think that. We see stories all the time of fraternities getting in trouble for underage drinking and throwing parties that may have […]
Aura photography comes to WCU
March 16, 2023 by
Version of story originally published in print for The Western Carolinian. The UC Illusions doorway acted as a gateway into the paranormal as WCU students lined up to have their Aura photographed. Aura photography is a portrait, usually a polaroid, that shows colors around the person, or subject, representing their aura in that moment. According […]
WCU Board of Trustees discuss student debt and WCU’s fight to stay competitive
March 15, 2023 by
In the first Board of Trustees meeting of 2023, Chancellor Kelli Brown celebrated victories of Western Carolina University, while also forewarning economic challenges that could be on the horizon. Since 2018, one of WCU’s biggest selling points has been fair tuition prices and low debt, but according to Brown, staying competitive will not be easy, […]
WCU vs. mold … and the mold is winning
March 9, 2023 by
Mold is a problem at Western Carolina University. After our story about it in the Hunter Library that took 10 months to clean, we are finding some more buildings with similar issues that have been growing mold for longer than two years. The TV and recording studios are on the first level of the Center […]
