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Show Page 2 THE SIGNPOST September 29, 1969 Senafe makes primary Academic honors program decisions of school year now offered at Weber State With Bill Washburn wielding the gavel, the student senate put its forces Into effect and made the first decisions of the school year including election of officers and committee assignments.During meetings held Sept. 11 and Sept. 18, Senator Ray Bingham was elected president pro tempore of the Senate. Also Sen. ator of Technical Education Dave Evans was named to chair the investigations committee. Fran Wlckstrom, Inter-fraternal Council representative will head the new policy committee and Dale Thompson, education sena-tor will serve as finance com mittee chairman. In other actions of the Sen. ate, Dr. T. Leonard Row-ley, head of the theatre de. partment requested $2,800 to upgrade costuming and scenery. Rowley noted that alter, natives to this proposal would be either to cut one production or charge students half price. The constitution of the Cardi-nal Key Club, the sister club of the Blue Key National Honor Fraternity, was passed by the student senators. The next Senate meeting will be held tonight at 6 p.m. All students who desire to visit the Senate in a non.partici-pating role may do so. BY BYRON WADE Weber State College has initiated an honors program this year to encourage qualified stu-dents to seek scholarly excell-ence by coming to a broad in. tellectual grasp of the subject studied. To qualify for honors classes a student must have a cumula. tive grade point average of 3.4 or must have had a high av. erage for the preceding quar-ter. Entering' freshman must have achieved honors in high A First Security Bank CHECKING ACCOUNT gives you fetfd vJUU U L M 1 vL.JLJ UULi Wallet-style Folding-style Above all else a First Security checking account gives you better, more systematic control of your money. It shows exactly what you spent and who received the money. 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These "selected students" will be able to "pursue some independent scholarly lines of interest and creative endeavors which are not ordinarily open Take-off planned for flying club The Weber State College Fli-ers' Club, newly-organized last year, has held an officers' meeting to plan this year's ac tivities. Dr. Deon Greer, the ad-visor to the club, and officers, David E. Fletcher, president; Bob Hanson, treasurer.secre-tary; and Dave Zundel, vice president, met to outline plans for recruitment of members and goals for the coming year. The major proposal of the club is to utilize a Cessna 182 for student and faculty flying. This idea will be presented to club members and any interested stu. dents at a general meeting some-time during fall quarter. Any students interested in be. coming members of the fly. ing club can contact Dr. Greer in the physical science building, geography department. to them during their undergrad. uate studies, with the personal guidance of mature scholars on the faculty as aids and as-sociates." The Honors Program will consist of both a lower and upper division curriculum to be selected by the student with ad. vice from the honors faculty. Dr. Jennings G. Olson, Professor of Philosophy and An-thropology is directing the new program. He is a product of the University of Utah and UCLA Dr. Olson joined the faulty at Weber in 1949. He has since proven to be one of its ablest scholars. All credits earned in the hon. ors program will be applicable to other college requirements. An honors student may com-plete the basic course require, ments for guaduation by tak. ing classes such as "Honors 50, perspectives" of thought: phy. sical science" or "Honors 51, perspectives of thought, life sci. ence" both of which will be taught this quarter. The honor student will be en-titled to many privileges includ. ing: advanced registration, spec-ial seminars, selected faculty, and letters of meritorious rec ommendation for future activities.Any student desiring additional information concerning the Hon-ors Program may see Dr. Olson in Annex no 6 room 6. Phi Kappa Phi society gets national affiliation The Western Regional Vice President of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society met recently with Weber State admin. Istrators, faculty and students to execute the transition from a local honor society to affilia-tion with the national society. Since Weber has been a four year fully accredited college for ten years this year, the society is now eligible to petition for membership. According to the regional rep. resentative the membership of this chapter will consist of 10 percent of the senior class with a grade point above the 3.5 mark, while juniors admitted to the society will have to sport a 3.75. The ranking junior in the soc-iety will automatically assume the position of vice-president in the . society for the next year. Since PKP is essentially a society for graduate students, the faculty members and holders of memberships in other chap, ters of PKP from former col. leges will assume the primary leadership position. It is primarily the students who will benefit from the ac tivities of the society on the campus. They will assume most of the committee responsibilities for the promotion of honors pro-gram. affiliated lecturers and presentations. Members will be elected to the society twice a year, in the fall and in the spring. Petitions for admittance to the society and Inquiries for further information can be directed to either Dr. Thomas Burton, or to David G. Yurth, honor societypresident. Frcrfs plan men's rush Campus fraternities are plan-ning men's rush activities be. ginning with formal rush registration October 6 through 10 in room 143 of the administration building. A $5.00 rush fee will be col. lected and a schedule of events will be available at the time of registration. Under the direction of rush chairman, Greg Boothe, an orl-entation program will begin at 6 p.m., October 9. Followingthis program, each fraternity will hold an open house, planned to in. form the rushees of the merits of the individual fraternities. Light refreshments will be served at the end of the evening. Throughout the week of October 13 to 17, private parties spon. sored by each fraternity will be held. All rushees will be expected to submit preference cards Octo-ber 21 in room 143 of the ad. ministration building. Prefer, ences will then be matched by the fraternity presidents and the assistant dean of students, Mar-vin J. Peterson. Bids may be picked up after 2 p.m. October 22. V . '.. |