Ceillie Simkiss's Archive

WCU hosting “Big Birthday Bash” to celebrate 125 years

WCU is throwing their own birthday party on Tuesday, August 26, and everyone’s invited! The party starts at 4 p.m. and will include a picnic on the A.K. Hinds University Center Lawn which will have barbecue, veggie burgers, hamburgers, hot dogs and some traditional fair foods like funnel cakes. Since it’s a birthday bash, the […]

Duke Energy and McCrory administration still seeking solution for NC coal ash ponds

The biggest energy provider in North Carolina, Duke Energy, continues to roll in the news for their problems in the ash ponds around N.C. and Governor McCrory is finally responding, as is Duke Energy.  However the response from McCrory is not what the environmental organisations wanted. As Charlotte Observer reported earlier in April, McCrory  calls for […]

“Echoes of the Cotton Club” to perform Thursday night

Imagine it’s 1927 in the Harlem district of New York City during prohibition. Alcohol is illegal, but it’s easy to pay off the police in the mainly black district. Owney “The Killer” Madden, an English gangster, owns a club that is only the rich white clientele can enter called the Cotton Club. It employs solely […]

Full Spectrum Farms hosts Easter egg hunt

Full Spectrum Farms helped nearly 30 children from Cullowhee and the area celebrate the Easter holiday on Sunday, April 20, in their second annual Great Easter Egg Hunt. Norman West, a member of the board at Full Spectrum Farms, was in charge of the event.  “I had one just like this when I was a […]

A small pill, 50 years later is still controversial

Western Carolina University is all about the 1960’s this year with their ‘Take It All In” theme, but something that hasn’t been touched on is the birth control pill. It was born in the 1960’s, although it wasn’t available to single women without a male signature until 1968. It’s been a very controversial topic in […]

We want you to go vote!

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 […]