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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 09

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  • Power Trip * Sessions | Set : , This is one power trip that prospective college students will want to take. its the Western Carolina University 04 Power Trip, a series of receptions designed to provide information about the college _admissions process to prospective students and their families and give them the power to make one of the most important decisions " their lives - where to go to college. _ The receptions are structured so that students and parents can chat individually with university representatives who will listen and answer questions, said Phil Cauley, director of admissions at Western. Participants will meet experts and get clear directions so they can start moving on the right path. High school seniors who bring a completed application for admission, $40 application fee, official high school transcripts and SAT scores will be eligible for an instant decision on admission. High school underclassmen can get an early jump on the admissions process. Each reception, to be held from 6 until 9 P.M., will include information stations covering admissions, financial aid, orientation, computer requirements, campus housing, scholarships, and fields of study. The schedule: | Monday, March 8, Hickory, Holiday Inn Select (1385 Lenoir Rhyne Blvd. S.E.) _ Tuesday, March 9, Charlotte, Sheraton Airport (3315 Billy Graham Parkway) Wednesday, March 10, Greensboro, Sheraton at Four Seasons (3121 High Point Road) Thursday, March 11, Raleigh, Marriott Crabtree Valley 500 Marriott Drive) On-campus open houses in Cullowhee are set for Friday, March 19, and Saturday, April 17. For more information about the 04 Power Trip or to register, call the Office of Admissions toll-free at (877) WCU-4YOU, or visit www.poweryourmind.com and click on the Power Trip button. -we_news@email .weu..edu Retired congressmen (I) Lloyd Meeds, D- Wash., and (r) William H. Zeliff Jr., R-N.H., give students in a Western Carolina University political sciences class an insiders look at American government and politics as part of the national Congress to Campus program, which came to Western Feb. /- 20. As part of their visit, Meeds and Zeliff met with several classes and student organizations and delivered a public presentation titled Were From the Government and Were Here to Help You. The Congress to Campus program is sponsored by the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress and is designed to address the civic learning and engagement deficit among American college students. The program sends bipartisan pairs of former Congress members - a Democrat and a Republican - to colleges and universities across the country to conduct classes, community forums, individual student meetings and other activities. MOUNTAIN HERITAGE CENTER ONLINE Exhibit Examines Impact of Rural Electrification Rural electrification transformed the lives of Western North Carolinas-residents.in the-early. 1900s, and those effects are examined in a new online exhibit available for viewing on the Web site of Western. Carolina.Universitys. Mountain. Heritage Center. ~The exhibit, Watts in the Mountains: Rural Electrification in. Western North Carolina, chronicles the impact of Nantahala Power & Light Co., a utility created in 1929 to serve the southwest region.of. WNC. Located.on the. Web.at http://www.wcu.edu/mhe/ index npl-htm, the exhibit was produced by a local history class taught by Richard D. Starnes, assistant professor in cs universitys department of history. To gather.content for the exhibit, students delved into.a huge collection of documents, artifacts and photographs relating to NP&Ls operation that was donated. to Western by. Duke Power Co..a year go, Starnes said. To supplement the company information, the students interviewed some local senior citizens, including former NP&L employees, who could speak first-hand about the power companys history and impact. The exhibit includes the personal stories of 10 of those residents, he said. Projects of this type teach our students practical research skills and, at the same time, continue Westerns longstanding tradition of preserving the regions rich history, Starnes said. The exhibit is the Mountain Heritage Centers second online exhibit: The students have done an excellent job in gathering the pertinent details to create an interesting and-informative exhibit, said Suzanne McDowell, Mountain Heritage Center curator. The interviews with local people who witnessed the changes that occurred give the exhibit an effective personal touch. NP&L-was-created-as-a subsidiary of the Aluminum _.Company of America (Alcoa) to produce electricity for an Alcoa aluminum plant in Tennessee and:to provide power to WNC..NP&L became a division of Duke Power in 1998, and in December 2000, NP&L formally became part of Duke, known.as:Duke Power- Nantahala Area. <
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