Will WCU ever understand the importance of “local community”?

"We didn’t have that small town thing in Cullowhee, where I grew up," wrote Bill Graham, cofounder of the TuckaseegeeReader in an opinion column today that takes Western Carolina University to task for its corporate-centric policies. 

Old Cullowhee is downtrodden now, dealt successive blows by changes to roadway patterns, economic instability and the corporatization of college life up the hill.

With those injuries came insult: when WCU decided it should ride to the economic rescue of a village in distress it saddled up and galloped 15 minutes north, to Dillsboro.

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