Budgets “cut” WCU student athletes future

With budget cuts rising, Western Carolina Univeristy’s student athletes future may take a major effect due to the changes that will take place. Such changes are scholarship awards, amount of money invested into student athletes, and study hall.

Extreme sledding

Is there ever such thing as too much fun? Why of course not. That is, until someone gets hurt. Western Carolina Senior, John Jarvis, proved it this past week sledding on a hill next to Norton.

Expect your education for better or worse

Meredith Oakley, a junior at Western Carolina, expects the new chancellor to relate to the students, to be a friend as well as a leader on campus. Her main point: he needs to have the best interest of the school in mind. “When it comes to cutting staff, keep the staff that has highest productivity […]

Ghosts of Arthur Anderson’s past far from haunting

by Shelby Harrell If Arthur Anderson was haunted by his own past, the spirits would surely be impressed by his 75-year-long career that began in 1934, when Anderson was only 12. The fact of the matter is, Anderson is far from being a “scrooge” and is in no need of any Christmas enlightenment. With years […]

Arthur Anderson: Acting is love

by Katelyn Cooper Arthur Anderson started his acting career in 1934 when he was 12 years old. Anderson was 16 at the time he portrayed one of Charles Dickens’ ghostly trio opposite Orson Welles in the 1938 broadcast of A Christmas Carol. He reprised his original role as the Ghost of Christmas Past in WCU’s […]

A cowboy hat and a shot gun

Brittany Hink, a senior at Western Carolina, could not resist to tell the story of her first adventure  in Europe.  An adventure she swears she will never forget. The trip was to London and she and her three friends, two Americans and one German, decided to fly back to Italy and drive the rest to […]