WCU students get to experience Tunnel of Oppression

The ‘Tunnel of Oppression’ returned to WCU Thursday, Feb. 8, in the University Center for a two-day event. Students lined up talking amongst themselves and eager to go in to the tunnel, but upon leaving, their faces had no expressions and there was no talking.  The event is hosted by students and the Department of Intercultural Affairs to […]

WCU takes on the Moral March

Jackson County and WCU branches of NAACP will be traveling to Raleigh, Saturday morning, Feb. 11, to take a stand and march for justice on the 11th annual Moral March. The Forward Together Moral Movement & HKonJ People’s Assembly Coalition march is part of a love and justice movement that fights for many social issues such […]

WCU employees, students protest ban

This story was written by Quintin Ellison, originally published in The Sylva Herald. Faculty and student leaders at Western Carolina University condemned President Donald Trump’s immigration order as “fundamentally antithetical to the values and goals of higher education and to American values as a whole.” Meeting Feb. 3, Faculty Senate members voted to approve a resolution opposing […]

“This Is Our Youth” is all too familiar for Western students

Western Carolina University’s Stage & Screen finished up their showing of “This Is Our Youth” on Feb. 5 in Bardo Arts Center, striking home the all too familiar concept of leaving the nest into a more complicated world than we started in. “(The show) was uncomfortably human, uncomfortably relatable, and real,” mentioned Holly Hurding-Jones, junior […]

Trump order strikes home: Foreign-born WCU faculty wonder ‘who is next?’

This story was written by Quintin Ellison, originally published in The Sylva Herald. Farzaneh Razzaghi returned last week from visiting her mother in Iran. Soon after, President Donald Trump issued his immigration ban on Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. Though she holds U.S. citizenship, Razzaghi, dean of library services for Western Carolina University, said […]

Career and Networking Day to be held at WCU

In search of finding a career after college? WCU undergraduates will have the opportunity to meet with successful employers to discuss part-time and full-time jobs on Feb 1. The event is free and will be in the Ramsey Regional Activity Center, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Students are encouraged, by the Center for Career and Professional […]