“WCU Snap” is Western Carolina University’s local snap story that students are using to display life at Western, which varies from pictures of the Smoky Mountains and events around campus to drugs, pornography, and illegal activity. WCU Snap is controlled by an anonymous, unauthorized source. WCU’s administration and campus police are not doing anything about it, because […]
Catamounts beat Terriers
February 27, 2016 by
The Western Carolina University men’s basketball team outlasted the University of Wofford Terriers 53 to 48, Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Ramsey Center, in front of a crowd of more than 1,100. The games critical moment came on a steal by Catamount forward Justin Browning with only 25 seconds remaining and the Catamounts leading Wofford […]
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 […]
South African Apartheid exhibit offers a lesson of forgiveness
February 13, 2016 by
An earlier version of this story did not give credit to Hilary Lindler for providing the loan of the Amy Biehl materials and the 1994 election ballot to the exhibit. It has been corrected. Living in a country where democracy is so often taken for granted, it’s difficult to imagine a time and place where […]
Catamounts triumph over Mocs
February 12, 2016 by
The video was shot, edited, and produced by Calvin Inman. The Western Carolina University men’s basketball team won, despite a late rally by the University of Tennessee Chattanooga Mocs, Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Ramsey center, in front of a crowd of just under 2,000. The Catamounts started the game hot and established an early […]
