Western Carolina University senior Madison Kitchen took on the role of equestrian club president for the 2020-2021 school year. She knew it would come with challenges, but a pandemic was not one she thought she would face. The equestrian club voted for leadership positions in early 2020, just when the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading into […]
WWCU GM Lyndan Jones supports and serves the community
December 11, 2020 by
WCU senior Lyndan Jones puts the light into a now dim radio station where COVID-19 has taken over. The motivated student has been leading WWCU FM as the student general manager for three years, beginning only as a sophomore. Jones originally learned of the station from Valley Ballyhoo during her freshman year in 2017. She […]
Western Carolina University student creates his own clothing brand
December 2, 2020 by
How did a junior engineer major get interested in created a clothing brand? Isaiah Lipscomb, a student at Western Carolina University, began his own line of clothing, iblcustoms, in March 2019. Lipscomb is currently a junior majoring in engineering technology with a minor in art. He considers himself to be more artistic than mathematic and […]
Profile: WCU residential case manager Maeve Kirby
December 2, 2020 by
Maeve Kirby has been a Residential Case Manager for WCU Residential Living for four years and her job is to help. Before COVID-19, Kirby would regularly reach out to students and meet with them in-person to get to know them, hear about their experiences and offer support and connections to resources on campus. Because Kirby’s position […]
WCU legend in promoting the institution is retiring
December 2, 2020 by
Western Carolina University chief communications officer, Bill Studenc, will retire in January after almost 32 years of employment at the university. One can often see him walking around campus with a notepad in his hand and a smile on his face. As chief communications officer, Studenc wrote and managed press releases, collaborated with reporters on […]
World traveling college student during a pandemic
November 30, 2020 by
Traveling the world was easy, but becoming a freshman in college during a global pandemic was harder. Brenna Dunn, a 20-year-old out-of-state freshman at Western Carolina University is experiencing college in a different way than most normal freshmen have in years past. However, now she is living through a global pandemic. Before attending WCU, Dunn took […]
