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Show - - . . I. - - - VOLUME XVI OGDEX, UTAH, OCTOBER 31, 1952 Xumbcr 3 HlfflCOMM BURSTS WITH "4-YEAR WEBER" THEME Weber Blows Off 4-Year Status Steam Gripe ! Gripe! That might be all we do. but eventually we're going to establish a four-year Weber state college! in Ogden. A drive which will reach nervous breakdown! capacity and pressure is being exerted by the student body, the faculty, the almuni and everyone else connected with t Weber college. ' ! Signpost too is diving head Iirst into the pressure pot ! and is boiling this whole issue into four-year status steam. Specifically, we are presenting the repeated argument in; supposedly concise editorial form found in chronological! ! sequence on every page starting with page one. The following case for Weber state college has been; ! written and published in more detailed form in a brochure by the faculty and alumni entitled "The Case for Weber! College. Read this, Governor JL.ee, it s pretty good. We hope to effectively answer the following questions: ; I. What do we want? II. Can Utah afford expansion? III. What are the needs for expansion in Ogden? IV. Is sufficient enrollment assured to guarantee a; large economic unit? V. Would this expansion be an expenditure or an! investment? ; What do we want? We want first, amendments to the ! ! present state laws. These amendments would change the name Weber college to Weber state college, wipe out the part of the present law that restricts Weber to a junior; college, and empower Weber to offer 4-year instruction in the fields of arts, sciences, education and vocational train- ing and confer bachelor degrees in those fields. We want secondly, an appropriation of $31,500 for ! 1953-54 and $63,000 for the next year. Thirdly we want limited fields only. We 'realize the; expense involved in the study of medicine, pharmacy, etc. and even in degrees beyond a bachelor's ana see no necessity for these. So we ask that Weber be limited to four-year instruction and degrees granted in only: A. Professional school of education for training B. Arts and sciences as needed by pre-professional educational students. C. Vocational training including business, Industry, Nursing and Homemakmg. The last is not even offered at the U. of U. Note: Continuation of Weber state argument will be found on page two, upper left hand column. Alumni Help in Drive 1 y : C I i i . WHAT DOES THE OGDEN AREA ASK OF THE LEGISLATURE M ' ' " i . f Heading the alumni this year in their annual homecoming and drive for "Weber State college" are Marvel Young, secretary; Doug Burnett, president and Howard Ogden, vice-president. They examine a poster asking the first question in the case for Weber college. Deadline Nov. 1 Homecoming Slate Militarv advisor Dean Gardner today reminded Weber students j Assembly auditorium 10:30 Fri. that the deadline for submitting parade noo Sat applications for the December 4 r, , n. , Selective Service College Qual-: F,00,tba11-" ,vs- R'cks-City ification Tost is midnight to- : stadium. 1-sO aat. . morrow, and that application post- Alumni Reception Institute 7 marked after that time cannot be t0 9 Sat- considered. Dance college ballroom 9.00 Sat. "W e b e r, a four - year school," is the theme for the annual homecoming festivities which begin today, an-n o u n c e d homecoming co-chairmen Leland H. Monson, faculty representative, and Val Lofgren, student body president. The chairmen explained that the full slate of activities including an assembly, parade, game, reception, and dance are to fulfill a two-fold purpose; reassure the football team of the school's support, and provide entertainment for all associated with Weber college. The eighty voices of the college choir, under the direction of Glen L. Hansen will make their first appearance at 11 o'clock this morning during the assembly which begins homecoming activities.Saturday morning a parade of floats representing each class and social organization will add color to the celebration. As the celebration highlight, Weber college football team will match ability with Ricks college team at Ogden stadium, 1:30 p.m., Saturday. The evening's entertainment will be supplied by an alumni reception at Bertha Eccles Hall followed by a dance at the college ballroom. Six committees headed bv Far-rell R. Collett, Howard Knight, Jennings G. Olsen, Delmar Dickson, Val Lofgren, and Leland H. Monson combined their planning to present this homecoming fete. Student Body Yells for a State College at Weber I 5 M7 a--if r , ') MY ; A P. . A bit of drama is caught as the student body at Weber yelled out "We want a four-year Weber." As president H. A. Dixon came into the assembly last week, the students in one body arose and shouted for what they wanted. Signpost Polls the Political Scene; Reveals Amazing Pre-election Results By Signposter A political poll conducted by Signpost revealed several startling results so startling that this writer is still walking the halls in a dead stupor, shaking his head. Forget that first paragraph, it's Arnold and that he will push an supposed to create reader interest j elephant over a cliff if he gets by super exaggeration What really should be said is that the results of some 300 ballots conducted in the social science classes of Weber college do not follow normal political laws. Not even for this election with its absurdities including: both parties yelling about each other's candidate's expense accounts, candidates who get larangitis from crying "Civil rights!!" in the North, then calmly answering "Yes" to the question, "White Supremacy?" in the South, campaigners in the South who support Republicans and still live, even without an effective lynch law, Texans who'll vote "Ike" if Ike's party heading is removed from the ballot maybe they think his middle name is Benedict into the White House Maybe with hand on heart we can say "America! the land of the free." But, Lord, never change the word free to common sense! Gallup probably has a more accurate poll but here it is Signpost's poll of 1952 elections: The first jerker is the tremendous landslide by United States' Republican and Texas' Democratic candidate General Ike. Exact results showed (stated in percentage of votes) : Eisenhower 65 Stevenson 34 Undecided 1 The most startling fact is that only 1, when it is usually high in the nineties, hadn't made up their minds. Vogeler Describes Life Behind Iron Curtain in Lecture Series Opener by David Lindsay Robert A. Vogeler, seventeen months a prisoner of the communist regime in Europe, opened the Weber College Lecture Series before a crowd of 1,600 people Monday, October 20, at Ogden high auditorium. Mr. Vogeler, after resigning his commission as a naval officer, was employed in the interests of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company. He was by profession a businessman, and on "V..J. Day" he was sent to supervise activities of the company in northern Europe countries. It was here that he experienced the compact of extreme communist aggression against freedom-loving peoples. Vogeler painted in verbal detail his arrest on trumped-up charges in November of 1949, the barbaric treatment that followed and his ultimate 60-page "confession" after 72 days of brutal treatment. He told how the "liberating" Russians soon inched their way to power at the price of individual freedoms, enslaving 800 million people and 19 nations.' fifty-five million people have been put in concentration camps and an additional 15 million in slave labor camps, he stated. "You have the greatest weapon against aggression and tyranny right in your hands the ballot. Be sure that you are represented," said Vogeler. Continued on page 2 col. 4 Well, Republicans, you've had your laugh, now let's look at the gubernatorial results. Here we find Demo Glude either stuffing the ballot box, or this writer is mathematically incapable of counting votes. Results: J. Bracken Lee 22 Earl J. Glade 78 Change the percentage to millions of dollars and you have the proposed economies of each candidate.A poll of the individual parties found: Republican 46 Democratic 37 Undecided 17 Nothing startling about this when you consider the person who tabulated the votes is both Republican and corrupt. In consideration of all phases of this poll Signpost predicts that Stevenson and Lee will both concede when they receive their personal copies of Signpost. jDixon Gives Position ;Of College on 4-Year This is the statement setting 1 forth the position of the col lege and the administration re-i garding a four-year status as prepared by President H. Al- j dous Dixon: "At the outset I want to say that It is most difficult at this i election time to present the iease for a four-year Weber col lege without being misinter preted. The position of the In-fstitutlon Is this: namely, that i the advisory board, the faculty, Sand the school are all out to (secure a limited four-year col lege. We believe In .It as the howling dervishes believe In i Mohammed. On the other i hand, neither the president nor 'the institution is authorized by the State Board of Education to be partisan or to favor or oppose any political candidate. I If anything I say can be interpreted that way, It Is not done intentionally, and furthermore j is chargeable to me as an Individual and not to the college lor its administration." |