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Show Page 2 WEBER COLLEGE SIGNPOST Friday, January 28, 1949 Signpost WEEKLY PUBLICATION OF ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER COLLEGE 402 Mocnch Building Phone Weber College Extension 26 -1 Editor Billee K. Wright Assistant Editor Gerrie Reuse Business Manager Xorraine Price Sports Editor Ralph Mitchell Cartoonist R. Housley Exchange Editor Jo Ann Cliften Editorial Advisor L. C. Evans Business Advisor O. M. Clark Reporters: Shirley Corkey, Richard Rounds, Emma Lou Barnes, Shirley Lynch, Clarence Erkelens, Anita Harvey, Marian Mower, A. Coombs, LuNeva Allen, Boyde Knowles. Three Cheers For Weber If you're working on a tough job and are almost ready to give it up, then your father comes along and says, "You're doing a fine job, son, just keep working a little while longer and you will be sure to win," wouldn't you put forth that extra effort that meant the difference between victory and defeat just because you knew that someone was cheering for you. The guys on our basketball team are not any different. When the going is tough and they hear a rousing cheer going up for them it's saying, "Go in there and fight, you're not beat yet, we they would have more confidence, confidence that might mean still have confidence in you, we know you can win, and we're standing back of you till the final gun sounds." Don't you think the difference between defeat and victory in a close game. Let's get together at the next game and give our team a BIG pat on the back instead of the gentle tapping on the shoulder that they have received at previous games. Let's show the squad we appreciate their efforts, and let's show everybody that we're proud of Weber. If you think you're to old to cheer you should listen to the World Series. Thousands of people fill those stadiums to cheer for their team, and they are not high school kids either, they're grown men and women. When Will We Grow Up? Are Weber students ready for a four-year institution? Are they really interested in obtaining a higher education? If so they are not showing it. The majority of students are passing up some of the finest opportunities by not attending the brilliant lectures arranged for the 1949 series. At a recent lecture the attendance was at a low 150 seats filled. Consider that amount 150 students out of approximately 1500 attending Weber college. What an interest that shows! How can we prove that we are in need of a four-year college if we are not, willing to even come out and support our assemblies and lectures that are made available to us now? Some type of action must be taken if we are to continue having these noted speakers appear at Weber. Students who attend the lectures remark that they are very interesting, and enjoyable as well as educational. The thought of hearing a lecture does not appeal to some students because to them it sounds "dry and boring." Perhaps it is our fault. Maybe we do not advertise them enough and let the students know what is in store for them. Whether the fault of the assembly committee not advertising them enough or the fault of the student body as a whole, they must both work together and arounse the interest in every student so our attendance may increase. What is the reason for the low percentage? Just what is happening to our college students? Can't they appreciate the cultural phases of life? College students are in school for an education and no matter what field they major in, these lectures give them vital, and important messages that they can't afford to miss. The lectures that are awaiting us in the future will help us to furthe rour education and increase our knowledge of world affairs. It isn't as though we have poor lecturers, for every person we have had engaged for the 1948-49 calendar have been expert in his subjects. As long as you have paid already for these assemblies through your registration fees why not come out and support them? Thus the speaker can give his message to a full house and not toan audience of empty seats. Hours upon hours of time have been put toward these lectures by the speakers to make them interesting and of value to all who attend. We will soon be having another lecture before long so do your part toward making it a successful one. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii) When Battling Your Way to Classes Through These Drifts Has Worn You Out, Refresh and Chat With Your Friends at The C I ittiiiiniiiiitiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiuiiiiiituiifi!iiiiiiiiH4iiiiiiiiMiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiii!iiiiii0 ill: The answer is still No -and stop following me! ELVIRA FANGLESNAP Shouting Farewell Weber Fangie 'Mushes' South Peering out from under lowered-fthought that white stuff was blos- brows, Miss Elvira Fanglesnap steered Bessie, the nortorious Buick, around the Weber college block in a vain attempt to find a place to park. Between not being able to park between "NO PARKING BETWEEN SIGNS" signs, and parking out in the middle of the street, at great risk to the anterior portion of Bessie's frame, Fangie took the only course left open. She parked two miles from school and mushed back. Trying to find a parking place near Weber is rather like trying to find a cigarette ad in the Deseret News. After this brief heigera, with all mental processes in deep freeze, including fingers, Miss Fanglesnap will go on bravely to make an announcement of great import. Much to her reluctance, and, her reader's joy (Also Leman Henry's) this is going to be the last column for some time. Posses As A Character After giving a list of characters for character reference, employers for likewise, and having her past explored with a fin-tooth comb, her ancestors dug up and examined for any mental quirks; and passing a mental and physical examination, Fangie is leaving. Yep, for down Saouth, fur away. Wearing a hopeful expression, and soon to be wearing a uniform, she is leaving the delightful climate of Utah and hieing her classy chassis unto the mountains of Virginia and 10-weeks of basic. Soon it will be "Pvt. u,; Fanglesnap, A. S. N. 000-000000etc. If she survives the ordeal that is basic, a few columns, written In broad drawl, shall make their .way out of the deep fastness of Camp Lee, Virginia, on the folkways and mores of the natives, and the inhabitants of Norfolk Naval Base, just a few miles away. Huba, Huba. Hi, Ho, the weather-o. April Fool's day is not here yet, but how else can one explain the sight of five fat robins flinging themselves about in a tree, shreiking and yelling like they didn't have better sense? You'd think that they Modern Shoe Repair MEN'S WORK A SPECIALTY 2560 Wash. Blvd. Ogden Blue Print & Supply Co. Everything for Drafting & Surveying Art Supplies Photostat Copies & Blue Prints Eccles Bldg. Phone 2-7170 soms instead of snow on those bare exposed, pardon the expression, limbs. Winter Sports With this type of weather, comes such exhilarating sports as leap ing in and out of snow drifts, dig ging out automobiles, and even the non-profane have been heard melting the snow under their wheels with nought but words, forcefully spoken. Even the weaker sex have learned to fling a shovel with ex-per gusto, and some of them have iven unraveled the mystery that are chains. Some sight. A frail backing up the slikht frame of- a Cadillac and applying chains. Dig, dig. Why, even to go outside in this weather demands internal vicera of the highest order. And Fanglesnap, the rat, is deserting the ship. Fanglesnap stood on the snowed-in deck Shoveling snow out by the peck. She'll hie herself, not hither, But anyheres out of this blasted whither. Just making a Nash of herself! HENRY By Lehman Henry I wasn't going to hand in my column this week, but the night before deadline, I saw Billee Wright's (Woo, woo.) image in front of me with a sharp icecicle in her hand saying, "Henry, don't forget your column, we're hard up for copy." I got right up and wrote this. Since the guys in school now call me "The Mouse," or "The Haircut," I might as well explain the situation. You see, I was just minding my own business one early morning last week . . . just walking on Washington, between twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth, when all of a sudden I heard a rumble and clang clash . . . my hair was cut! The snow plow gave me a close one! (And I do mean close!) The boys up at the dorm consider me as being one of the luckiest guys since I won the diamond and ruby studded wrist watch on a punch board for twenty cents. On top of that, I also have as another one of my punch board trophys, a Ronson lighter. To me, this doesn't mean a darn thing because I'm just plain broke. If it wasn't for Danny "The Savior" Hipa I'd be dead by now . . . and it might as well be because it's too cold to be alive! Lew Holston thought he had the racket of pushing cars all sewed up when he'd walk around town with a sign on his back saying, "I'll help push you out for $1.00." He thought he was smart until he saw me with my sign saying, "I'll not only help push you out, but I'll PUSH you out for $.50!" Chick and Bobby came along with a sign that said, "Both of us will push you out for $.25." I quit. Before I hang up for this time I have to tell you a little more about this guy Lew Holston. 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