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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2021 8:23:20 GMT -5
The Invasion of the Underclad Undergrads For a brief time in the 1970s, college students threw off their inhibitions — among other things — and ran free. One cold winter’s night 40 years ago, when Dwight Sparks was a Western Carolina University junior — an otherwise clean-cut, reasonably serious undergrad from Davie County preparing for a career in journalism — he did something crazy. He streaked. That is, under the pseudo-cover of darkness, he sprinted across the chilly Cullowhee campus, almost as naked as the day he was born, while a small gathering of startled onlookers gawked, laughed, or cheered for him and his two fellow streakers. Sparks wore tube socks and a pair of sneakers — possibly for comic effect, but more likely to help him run faster — for his mad dash past, ahem, Hinds University Center. He also wore a look on his face that captured exactly what he was feeling during that brief, surreal moment of his youth — half terror and half exhilaration. “In all my life, I have never run so fast,” says Sparks, now a 61-year-old grandfather and the editor and publisher of two small North Carolina newspapers. “It was exciting, but it was also cold. A Cullowhee winter night is not suitable for running naked.” www.ourstate.com/underclad-undergrads/?fbclid=IwAR02v65tVsBuB1L-xrcOwe8DgEiowc4YzZGJI00Wh1KTmz23GOdFTe6rXRc
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2021 8:28:05 GMT -5
Who remembers this man?
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2021 8:28:49 GMT -5
or....
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2021 8:35:23 GMT -5
Scott Beach
WWCU held annual beach remotes in the 1980s.
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Post by Speedwell Cat on Jul 18, 2021 10:17:53 GMT -5
I like the cat costume we have now. I remember going to the NC State game in the early 1990s and I believe Mr and Mrs Cat were present at that game. Before the game they were on the field. My wife and I did not have tickets prior to the game but ended up with pretty good seats right in the middle of a bunch of senior citizen State fans. I remember the couple sitting next to us asking me before the game if our mascots were supposed to be mice. I told her we are the Catamounts and that started that discussion about what a Catamount is. The lady next to us was convinced that our mascot was two mice. Folks who have been around remember that game as maybe the lowest point in Catamount football. It might have been the lowest. If memory serves, we did not get a first down and we lost like 60 something to nothing. I think it was coach Hodgin first game as head coach. So yes I remember that couple but would like to forget them because of that memory of a wasted Saturday afternoon in Raleigh. It was so bad that State was fair catching every punt mid-way through the first half. Coach Sheridan of NC State said that after the first couple of series, he knew he had superior personel and the game was never in doubt. I believe that Ket Briggs was in his first or second year on Sheridan’s staff. That has to be the worst game in WCU football History. Maybe losing to Tuscolum at home was worse but I don’t know. Yeah, I was there too. 1990. It was awful. There was another one in the Swamp 15 years later, 62-0. We had a good running back, and by the second half we were direct-snapping to him and he would just run for his life. Attempted 12 passes total. Might be an interesting thread on here at some point: five best and worst games of the modern era.
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Post by Speedwell Cat on Jul 18, 2021 10:20:35 GMT -5
Who remembers this man? Would ride a lawn mower around campus wearing an indian headdress, and liked to kiss the small babies of nervous mothers
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Post by Speedwell Cat on Jul 18, 2021 10:23:19 GMT -5
or.... Jimmy B! His resting spot is in Brown Cemetery in the middle of campus, not far from coach Waters. My mother is there, too, so I'll snap a picture next time I'm up there.. His headstone is pretty special
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Post by Speedwell Cat on Jul 18, 2021 10:25:44 GMT -5
so.....how many went to Speedy' for their pizza? Worked there (wrecked the delivery car and got fired!). Great place. Lower Cullowhee used to be pretty cool - lots of little businesses before Aramark and Walmart
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Post by wcatradio75 on Jul 20, 2021 13:57:10 GMT -5
I worked there. Drove a Speedy Pizza Chevy Vega with a Sterno pizza warmer in the back. Got a ticket from Highway Patrol for playing bumper tag with my buddies on the cross country team arriving home from meet in a state station wagon my second day on the job. I shouldn't have been surprised when the owner - Bruce - asked me how my night was going later that evening. He didn't fire me though...
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Post by tarcat on Sept 9, 2021 11:56:55 GMT -5
The Stillwell Building is not slated to come down, but the old Natural Sciences Building is, now that the Apodaca Science Building is up and running. This looks they are taking down the connecting hallways between Stillwell and NSB.
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