Western Carolina University Chancellor David O. Belcher will host an educational forum beginning at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 29, to address the regional importance of the Connect NC bond proposal. The event will be held in the theater of WCU’s A.K. Hinds University Center. On Tuesday, March 15, North Carolina voters will decide on the […]
Moral March hammers against voter suppression
February 24, 2016 by
With the Voting ID requirement is taking effect for March’s primary, the NAACP’s biggest protest event of the year on Feb. 13 in Raleigh centered on voting rights. Among the 5000 protesters were several students from WCU. Thousands attended the 10th annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People’s Assembly, filling an entire block of […]
WCU opens campus to prospect students
February 22, 2016 by
Cloudy skies and rainy weather didn’t stop hundreds of aspiring young students from coming to Western Carolina University’s first open house of spring semester on Saturday, Feb.20. Potential students piled into WCU for the events of the day, starting with registration at 8 a.m., an information fair in the Ramsey Center, a welcome session, academic sessions, an information […]
Is the athletic fee costing students ‘an arm and a leg’?
February 22, 2016 by
Shouting “purple!”, “gold!” at the top of students’ lungs, stadiums full of nothing but purple shirts and painted faces. The tailgates and the catamount pride at Western Carolina University is all for the NCAA Division athletics the university participates in. But this pride comes with a price that some students are not too happy with. At WCU, students […]
Voting registration ends Feb. 19
February 18, 2016 by
If you have not yet registered to vote it is imperative that you do so by today, Feb. the 19, by 5 p.m. If you do not then you will not be able to vote in the state primaries coming up in March. Voters are now also required to show ID at the voting place in order […]
