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Show Page 3 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 Editorial Editor in chief Molly Bennett 626--'121 The Signpost Signpost Viewpoint INVESTOR Independence Day, national pyro day women and children, will suddenly With the first day of December become pyrotechnic experts. Without comes a wave of sappyfilms,T.V. so much as a glass of water within 50 shows, newspaper articles and radio feet, they will ignite explosives on their broadcasts about the "true meaning sidewalks, decks, and driveways. They of Christmas." People are worried that will read warning labels: "Place on commercialization of the holiday has ground, light fuse and get away," which caused forgetfulness of the reason they will promptly ignore and burn their behind it. These worries are quite neighbors suburban legitimate. Each crispy. year the Christmas Just like Just like Christmas, displays come out a Christmas, the the true meaning day, two days, or a of this season is week earlier than the true meaning sometimes lost in last. Last year, many a wash of fireworks stores had sweets of this season displays, parades, and shaped like elves is sometimes hardware sales. Unlike and reindeer stacked Christmas however, next to witches, bats lost in a wash of there arc no sappy T.V. and goblins. The day fireworks displays, shows to remind us after Thanksgiving why we're celebrating. brings with it an parades, and Perhaps it's time epidemic of madness. someone produced hardware sales. This madness turns a cheap animation rational, intelligent about "Frosty, the people into spendthrift soft-serve ice-cream man" who melts maniacs, burying the religious roots of when the children lack in patriotism. the Holiday Season under a mountain Maybe a claymation "Rudolph the of shopping bags. red-nosed Red-Coat" could give us a While Christmas holds the title refresher about the men who bought position for holiday madness, it is our freedom with their blood. Could be certainly not alone in the category. that something as simple as a life size Other celebrations throughout the set of light-up plastic lawn ornaments year bring their own mini versions depicting the Boston Tea Party would of hysteria. Easter causes people to instill remembran.ee. buy, eat, and give to their children Before you light up the grill, before egg-shaped chocolates, filled with you set out your blanket to save your God knows what, that supposedly seat for the parade, before you go crazy came out of a rabbit. Halloween and at one of those "no payment till next Thanksgiving inspire even more year" sales, take a moment to think disgusting eating habits. Plain and about what the season is all about. Take simple, holidays make people do crazy a moment to remember those who have things. fought and died to secure our way of Independence Day is no exception life. Take a moment to think of those to the holiday mind-melt. Tomorrow who are currently doing the same. Think morning thousands of men will wake about ways you can strengthen your up believing they can grill. They will home, community, and country. Think go to the supermarket and pick out of what you can give to ensure that the several very expensive chunks of meat, freedoms won for us will endure for which they will then take home and those to come. Then, once you have promptly burn crispy. Those same thought of something, do it. men, along with countless other men, f 7JYAT CAB *«£»«% 'Cats on Campus Compiled by Heidi Johnson "Are summer classes as rigorous and thorough as classes held during spring and fall? " ^ ^ • WEBER STATE There is only one problem with your "Shane Says" plan. Smuggling firecrackers across the state line is lame and juvenile. Okay, By Shane Stevenson two problems - the columnist other is that you just got pulled over for the broken tail-light that you tried to fix with red duct-tape and one of those tiny keychain flashlights. Your palms begin to sweat as the passengers in your car quickly buckle their seatbelts. "License and registration please." Don't worry. Just act casual. The highway patrolman probably won't notice that you just crossed the state line at 3 a.m. and you live in Provo. "Do you know why I pulled you over?" Okay, this is good. Just 'fess up to the taillight and maybe it will end there. "Nope, don't give a damn about the light." Then it dawns on you. You passed a patrol car on the other side, just before you crossed the border. They must have radioed in your plates and watched for you coming out. Your guts get all twisty inside as you realize there is no way out. "Okay officer, they're all in the trunk, but it was his idea." You say, pointing at your ex-best friend in the passenger seat. In the end, what you end up with is an empty trunk, an empty tank of gas, one less friend, and $325.64 in fines. But hey, look on the bright side. At least you still have all of your fingers. UNIVERSITY. Signpost "I think summer could be tougher-in summer you're learning a lot more material in a shorter period of time." I took a couple of classes not knowing what I was getting into. I don't know how people have jobs and go to school at the same time in the summer!" - David Blackt •>- Heather Bryant business administration senior nursing freshman "To me they're tougher because of the short term." "I think it depends on the person. Some people do better in the summer, but I think summer classes are harder. You really have to be self-motivated." - Kornsuang Kraikongchi accounting and finance freshman Just stick with the "Mega Demon" If you're alive you have probably been to a grocery store in the past couple of weeks. If you have been to a grocery store you have probably noticed the rickety-looking wooden booths and large canvas tents that seem to have grown out of the asphalt. No, silly. The circus is not in town. These are firework vendors. Tomorrow is Independence Day and this means a lot of fireworks and patriotism. Patriotism is love and devotion to one's country, right? What better way to show this devotion than by boosting the US economy through the purchase of large amounts of imported explosives? In fact, why not go the extra mile for Uncle Sam and spend a heap of cash on a road trip while you're at it? You know what I'm talking about. You have spent the last three weeks planning your overnighter to Evanston or Cheyenne. Your cooler is full of root beer, your 1986 Honda Prelude is full of gas and your trunk is full of empty space that you will need for bags and bags of Black Cats and bottle-rockets. Sure, you could visit the raggedy old booth in the grocery store parking lot. They sometimes have good deals on Whistling Petes. Or, you could buy the "New Yorker" assortment from WalMart, which includes 250 ground-bloom flowers and a "Mega Demon" fountain. But that stuff's for kiddies. You need the hard stuff; the stuff that makes your ears ring. Managing editor Cynthia Loveland 626-7614 - Heather Francis undeclared sophomore "They are more rigorous but it depends on which blockyou're in. I don't think I registered everything in the four-week block because it was too fast." "Rigorous, yes, just because ifs a lot more intense. You Iiave to assimilate a lot of information, but the tests tend to be more manageable because the course information's been more recently planted in your brain." - Misty Hearnesberger social work sophomore -Andrew Webster accounting junior "It depends on the class. Some classes are more challenging because you're required to learn a lot of information in a small amount of time; others seem to be more relaxed and laid-back." "Yes, bia I like them much better. I've always gonefidltime in the sum mer because I prefer to have my classes quick and over with" - Lori Jo Webster elementary education senior - Allison Love design graphics engineering technology sophomore Letter to the editor Paycheck I am surprised that President E Ann Millner received a pay raise and people were happy about it. Under the leadership of President Millner, the workers continue to be exploited for low wages The Signpost is published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during Fall and Spring semester and Tuesdays during the Summer Semester. To subscribe contact Georgia Edwards at 626-7974 or gedwards@weber.edu.The first copy of The Signpost is free, each additional copy is $.50. and high work load, a drop in students registering to Weber State, and a deepening divide regarding race relations on campus. How can anybody be proud of these faults? People will respond to this letter and try to defend President Millner, but, how can any person defend these acts? She is at the top of the list and j is the lead- // ership for this school. She has the responsibility to make the needed The Signp'ost welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must include name, address, telephone number and the writer's skjnature.Anonymous letters will not be printed The Signpost reserves the right to edit letters for reasons of space a nd libel and also reserves the right to refuse to print any letter. Letters should not exceed 350 words. changes and she has not done so. With these issues, how can some person declare they deserve a pay raise? Bring letters to the editorial office in The Stewart Library room 69, mail to: The Signpost, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408-2110. Attn: Editor in Chief email: thesignpost@weber.edu |