Opinion: A reflection on four years

Nick Childs Opinion re-published from  The Western Carolinian I’m set to graduate in May, and I don’t know what is coming next. Anybody else in similar shoes? Anybody else desperately want to leave and desperately want to stay at the same time?  I’m feeling sentimental some these days as I cling to my college memories and […]

Opinion: the end of the world?

2023 should be glorious, A year to advance and be better.  And yet there’s more division than ever, And that’s why I’m writing this letter.  Technology has made us more connected, Makes us closer and learn so quick.  But it also gives birth to the worst of us,  The ones that do things that make […]

Opinion: Student journalists fight for communicate with university officials

Originally published in the Western Carolinian. I am a student journalist who is the editor-in-chief of a student digital media platform called the Western Carolina Journalist and a staff writer for the Western Carolinian. I have been in these positions for over a year now but since the beginning of my student journalist career, I […]

WCU has a problem with communication

Op-ed co-written with Rachel Lepine Recently, we were trying to gather information about a story for the Western Carolina Journalist. Our initial research had us believing that this story was about a fundraiser that went to the athletics club at WCU. That information was far from the truth. It turned out that the story was not […]

US, North Carolina Must Prioritize and Address Vaccine Hesitancy

With an average daily death toll of over 3,000 Americans and 25,000 daily new infections, the COVID-19 pandemic has entered a new phase of accelerated spread since this holiday season. In North Carolina, there has been an average of 8,032 cases per day and a daily average of 90 deaths. To date at least 659,840 […]

Op-Ed: Native American Culture is Not a Costume

As enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the officers of Digali’i, Western Carolina University’s Native American student organization, we take great pride in the culture and history that make us Cherokee. Every year around Halloween, however, it seems that our social media feeds light up with images of individuals dressed up […]