Parade your Purple Pride

There was a chill in the air just before sunset as the annual WCU Homecoming parade took place Friday evening. The streets of downtown Sylva were lined with students, alumni, and community members, all supporting their Catamounts during WCU’s homecoming celebration. “The parade is like a kick off to homecoming weekend,” says Sally Little, a senior […]

Study Abroad fair trade for WCU students

WCU typically sends between 15 to 20 students to study abroad every semester. From the The staff of the International programs and services office describe the opportunity as a life-changing experience that the students will remember forever. John Schweikart is the International advisor at WCU. His job is to encourage Western’s students to spend some […]

Turnovers doom Cats; fall to Chattanooga

Western Carolina lost its fifth game of the season Saturday night, falling to Chattanooga, 52-7, in the homecoming game for the Mocs. Both the Catamounts and Mocs entered the night winless in SoCon play and the game was expected to be close down to the wire. It was not however, as the Catamounts committed five […]

WCU Not-so-handicap parking

At WCU there are over 5,000 parking spots on campus.   Nearly 100 of those spots are reserved for handicap students and faculty. However, this does not appear to be enough.  There have been several complaints going around the university claiming students and faculty who are not handicap, take the parking spaces at their own convenience. […]

After Poverty Project launch, students unclear about goals

The second event of WCU’s Poverty Project, a movie entitled “Inside Job”, was held at the end of September in the UC Theater, yielding less than 20 people and only a handful of those being students. The movie focuses on the economic crisis of 2008 and how key players on Wall Street bargained, made corrupt […]

The highs and lows of being WCU’s International Student Advisor

Western Carolina University’s International Student Advisor, Chris Pedo, has just started his third year in this position on the Cullowhee campus. He is there to help students who are studying at Western and who come from other places all around the world, both before they arrive and during their stay in North Carolina. This semester, […]