Hunter Library the most busy place on campus in the finals week

With what most students call hell week here and finals, Hunter Library is open 24 hours in the next 5 days. During 24/5, many students come to camp out all day and overnight in the library to finish assignments and study for final exams. While finishing up the semester in the library, many students bring […]

Sylva: The region’s most literary town

This story was written by Quintin Ellison, originally published in The Sylva Herald. One day last week, Catherine Carter, a poet and professor in the English department at Western Carolina University, started sketching a bubble chart to illustrate how literary and artistic engagement dovetail in this community. She didn’t complete the task. “I ran out of paper. […]