Over 35 candidates are campaigning for Western Carolina University’s student government association for the 2016-2017 academic year. All executive and senatorial positions are up for grabs this election cycle as well with three students vying for the presidency. Students will receive an email with a link to vote on March 13 and 14. The elections committee will […]
Student government association seeks four new senators
February 15, 2016 by
Corrected 2:40 p.m. Feb. 16: An earlier version of this article had the senator application deadline as Feb. 16, it has been corrected to Feb. 17 The Student Government Association (SGA) at Western Carolina University is replacing four senators in the spring 2016 semester. Faculty adviser, Karen Farmer, said the four did not meet semester […]
SGA makes large leadership change
February 9, 2015 by
Western Carolina University’s Student Government Association is going through a large leadership change that began in January, 2015. There were no members who were directly fired by SGA. Many of the current members of SGA could not discuss what happened because of the FERPA regulations. This makes the occurrence hard to understand with such vague information available to the public […]
We want you to go vote!
April 8, 2014 by
The Western Carolina University Student Government Association (SGA) is currently holding elections for the 2014 – 2015 Student Body President, Vice President and up to 25 senators, according to the emails that have been sent out to the student body today. Students may have been surprised to learn about the elections, given the lack of […]
WCU ready to celebrate 125 years
January 20, 2014 by
It was August 5, 1889 that Western Carolina University began to take shape. 18 aspiring teachers filed in for the first day of class at what was then a primary school called Cullowhee Academy. At the time, Cullowhee Academy was nothing more than an unpainted schoolhouse with two rooms. The only instructor, Robert Lee Madison […]
WCU’s campus safety initiative
December 12, 2013 by
In collaboration with Dustin George With a record enrollment of 10,106 students and an estimated growing population, it can be hard to keep up with every detail or rule break that occurs daily. According to the WCU campus police website, between 2010- 2012 there has been a total of 70 Burglaries, 12 forcible sex violations […]
