The Echo

The Echo Student News from Warren Wilson College The publication was renamed The Talon in 1976 and later renamed the Common Tongue in 1989.

The Echo student-run newspaper was first published in 1942, just a short time after Warren Wilson Vocational Junior College began admitting women. In early 2000, it reverted back to The Echo until December 2016, when the College decided to stop running it due to a lack of funding. On November 16, 2020, a new chapter of The Echo begins. The Echo encourages readers to respond to issues raised in our

pages via letters to the editor. Letters can be submitted to [email protected] by 3 p.m. on the Sunday before publication (Wednesdays) and should not exceed 300 words. Letters that do not meet the deadline or word limit will be considered on a space-available basis. Anonymous letters will not be accepted. By submitting a letter, you give permission to reproduce your letter in any format. The Echo reserves the right of editorial review of all submissions. Comment Policy
The Echo intends for this area to be used to foster healthy, thought-provoking discussion. Comments are expected to adhere to our standards and to be respectful and constructive. We ask that you refrain from the use of foul language, personal attacks, derogatory remarks or comments that might be interpreted as libelous. We reserve the right to delete comments that do not align with our standards.

We asked seniors at Warren Wilson College (WWC) what advice they have for incoming freshmen. Here’s what they had to say...
04/30/2025

We asked seniors at Warren Wilson College (WWC) what advice they have for incoming freshmen. Here’s what they had to say.

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Story by Cal Dooley & Ada Lambert 📰

Before I started working with differently abled individuals, I thought I had a pretty solid idea of what inclusion looke...
04/30/2025

Before I started working with differently abled individuals, I thought I had a pretty solid idea of what inclusion looked like. But my time at Open Hearts Art Center completely changed that. I didn’t just learn about stigma from the outside. I saw how deeply it can affect people’s lives, and I also saw how powerful real support and empathy can be when they actually show up in a space.

Open Hearts is an amazing nonprofit in Asheville that uses art to help differently abled adults thrive. The artists there have Down Syndrome, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and other developmental differences. But what I noticed immediately is that those labels don’t even begin to describe who they are. These are individuals with so much creativity, humor, and spirit.

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Photo by Chloe Trachtenberg📸
Story by Chloe Trachtenberg📰

As the flowers bloom and the semester wraps up, many Warren Wilson College (WWC) students may be in the mood to reflect ...
04/30/2025

As the flowers bloom and the semester wraps up, many Warren Wilson College (WWC) students may be in the mood to reflect on what has happened over the last nine months. Here is a recap of some of the moments The Echo covered throughout the 2024-2025 school year.

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Photo by Vivian Bryan📸
Story by Emily Cobb📰

If you made your way down to Warren Wilson College’s (WWC) composting hub on April 17, you might be surprised at the gro...
04/30/2025

If you made your way down to Warren Wilson College’s (WWC) composting hub on April 17, you might be surprised at the group of students hunkered inside the Community Oriented Regeneration Efforts (CORE) warehouse, passionately discussing the potential of WWC’s work crews. This assembly marked the second Student Intercrew Council Meeting, designed by Cecilia Moushey, a junior at WWC, as a place where on-campus crews can better connect, share resources and communicate with the administration.

Moushey, who works on the Propagation Sub-Crew of the Ecological Landscaping Crew, saw the need for increased connection after a large joint meeting between the WWC land management crews. There, students expressed a desire for more inter-crew collaboration.

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Photo by Vivian Bryan📸
Story by Ryleigh Johnson📰

Before taking her first Inside Out class, Sarah Puterbaugh, a senior photography major, was seriously considering droppi...
04/30/2025

Before taking her first Inside Out class, Sarah Puterbaugh, a senior photography major, was seriously considering dropping out of Warren Wilson College (WWC).

“My sophomore year, they ended photography classes, and [it was] like…I don’t understand why I’m here,” Puterbaugh said. “I feel like maybe I’m wasting my time a little bit. Then I took the [Inside Out] sociology class and…I really felt like I was learning something that I couldn’t find somewhere else, and I was learning something about myself. I felt like it mattered that I was there.”

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Story by Ryleigh Johnson📰

from an egg known as a volva to greet the world with a stinky awakening. This birth of slime attracts flies and other ca...
04/30/2025

from an egg known as a volva to greet the world with a stinky awakening. This birth of slime attracts flies and other carrion-lovers to the ph***ic main character of this drama. A fruit usually must start rotting before it can show off such a putrid aroma, but the Devil’s Dipstick mushroom blooms and ripens to reek all in one fell swoop.

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Photo by Kai Goldstein 📸
Story by Kai Goldstein 📰

A colony of small umbrellas seizes the air together, conquering the forest floor. This is one way to describe the beauty...
04/25/2025

A colony of small umbrellas seizes the air together, conquering the forest floor. This is one way to describe the beauty of mayapples coming up around this time of spring. Their unfurled leaves shoot up like dinosaurs hatching from eggs. Some shoots reveal one leaf as they open, while others fork into two. A flower is often born from this fork in the stems with two leaves; it is just one flower. This single flower, if pollinated, will mature into a single fruit, turning yellow and edible in late summer.

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Photo by Kai Goldstein 📸
Story by Kai Goldstein 📰

Around the Warren Wilson College (WWC) campus, graffiti is ever present, from the stencils found on the outside of Kittr...
04/25/2025

Around the Warren Wilson College (WWC) campus, graffiti is ever present, from the stencils found on the outside of Kittredge Theater to poems scrawled in Sharpie on library bathroom stalls. The student body of WWC has a variety of opinions on the value, appropriateness and ethics of graffiti as public art, especially as efforts to remove graffiti have increased.

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Photo by Kai Goldstein 📸
Story by Ryleigh Johnson 📰

At Warren Wilson College (WWC), a student-led group is making an impact by addressing a long-overdue issue on campus: ph...
04/22/2025

At Warren Wilson College (WWC), a student-led group is making an impact by addressing a long-overdue issue on campus: physical accessibility. The Wilson Alliance for Accessibility (WAFA) was formed by Icarus Aviles, a junior, to create a space where accessibility concerns are heard and addressed.

Before WAFA, there was a group called the Disabled Students Alliance, but many of its members left WWC due to the lack of accessibility they were working to address. Rather than continue under the same name, WAFA was created as a rebrand with different energy and goals.

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Story by Fury Basso-Davis📰

The annual Warren Wilson College (WWC) hosted event Fiddles and Folklife took place on April 12 in Bryson Gym and the Fo...
04/22/2025

The annual Warren Wilson College (WWC) hosted event Fiddles and Folklife took place on April 12 in Bryson Gym and the Formal Gardens. Hosted by WWC Music Crew and sponsored by local grassroots organizations, the community gathered to participate in all things ‘Folk.’ The day was full of traditional music, raffles, informative posters, food and tabling from WWC’s craft crews such as Herb, Fiber Arts, Woodworking, Blacksmithing and the Archive Crew.

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Photo by Vivian Bryan & Emma Taylor McCallum 📸

Alright, we all know there’s a lot of talk around here about the food at Glad. It’s not exactly everyone’s favorite. But...
04/10/2025

Alright, we all know there’s a lot of talk around here about the food at Glad. It’s not exactly everyone’s favorite. But what if we could fix that? Here’s a simple solution you may not have thought about: Let’s talk about working to reduce our food waste.

Before you start thinking this is some kind of lecture to “eat less” or “don’t grab that extra portion,” that’s not at all our intention. The message is simple: be present and aware. Slow down for a second and really think about what your body needs for the day. We’re all guilty of grabbing whatever when we’re in a rush, not paying attention to whether we’re actually hungry or not. Instead of overloading a plate and not finishing, or taking a large portion and then not liking that dish, take less at first and return for more if needed.

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Story by Miles Kreinbring📰

Warren Wilson College (WWC) is stepping into a new long-term Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) in fall 2025 as part of its ...
04/10/2025

Warren Wilson College (WWC) is stepping into a new long-term Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) in fall 2025 as part of its 10-year reaffirmation process with the regional accreditor Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).

The project, which is referred to as the Career Academic Learning Launch (CALL), emerged from campus dialogues during the 2023 and 2024 school years. The primary aim is to promote career readiness by integrating experiential learning into every major, strengthening work, teaching and learning at WWC.

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Story by Emily Cobb📰

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