Imagine that you win a short story contest, and you want to meet with the person who donated the money, but that person wants to stay anonymous. The English department of WCU has announced a short story contest called “Beyond The Frame” where students can submit short stories for a cash prize. The short stories […]
Anonymous donor encouraging students to look beyond the frame in a short story contest
March 11, 2025 by
Outhouse races return to Sapphire
February 19, 2020 by
Story published in The Sylva Herald on Feb. 20, 2020 What do you get when you combine skis, racing and bathrooms? Outhouse races. Sixteen teams from all over the southeast built outhouses and raced down the snowy slopes in the 2020 outhouse races at Sapphire Valley Ski Resort. The only regulations were outhouses had to […]
Meet the marching band elite: Drum Corps
May 3, 2016 by
The summer sun is blazing high and hot onto the field. The stands hold hundreds of people, their faces blurred by the summer heat and the distance. She’s exhausted, having spent the day riding in a bus filled with people, and spending the night sleeping on an air mattress in a gym filled to bursting […]
WCU students remained in Cullowhee over break
April 4, 2013 by
For some students like the women’s and men’s track team, baseball team, softball team, dance team, and cheerleaders having this break all to themselves was out of the question. Dance team member Dawn Henderson stayed at WCU because of scheduled rehearsals for an upcoming National Dance Alliance (NDA) competition which is being held in Dayton, […]
Magic: The Gathering gathers WCU students together
November 5, 2012 by
Every student needs a hobby to keep themselves entertained outside of homework. Many students at WCU play the trading card game, Magic: The Gathering. The graphic card game keeps pumping out new cards and content to keep its fans coming back for more. What is Magic: The Gathering exactly? It started in 1993 from the mind […]
