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Show W E B E R S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y Signpost Grade inflation hurts students Study skills to enhance education Catch up on campus issues via student letters see page 11 see page 11 seepage 10 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,2004 wsusignpost.com VOLUME 67 ISSUE 17 Hurricane aftermath reaches Northern Utah By JASON STALEY assl. photo editor | The Signpost Although hurricanes Charley, Francis and Ivan have terrorized the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast, the effects of the hurricanes are far-reaching, including Northern Utah and Weber State University. WSU employee Judy Tassone reunited with her daughter Kara Tassone, and Kara's fiance Mike Lemmon, Thursday night. Kara, who graduated from WSU in 2000, and Lemmon, a Utah State University graduate, were attending veterinary school at St. George's University in Grenada when Hurricane Ivan swept across the island. "Sitting in the hurricane was more of an adrenaline rush than fear," Kara said. The mahogany roof was ripped off their apartment during the storm, and they had to find cover elsewhere. Taking their dog, laptop computer, digital camera and bare necessities, they left for new refuge. They moved to a basement apartment with another couple to weather out the storm. Luckily, one of the people whom Lemmon and Kara were with had a bag of screws and a screwdriver. Once inside the basement they used disassembled furniture for bracing and screwed it to the doors and windows. "I could hear galvanized steel ripping," Kara said as she described her experience. "It is like someone spraying a power sprayer through every window, door and crack." In preparation for the storm, they covered their bookshelf with plastic and duct taped it to the wall. When the storm was over, they returned to find their apartment with four inches of water on the floor and virtually all of their belongings destroyed. The bookshelf was ruined, and their entire library of books and notes from school were scattered throughout the apartment. None of the notes were salvageable, and they were able to save only three books. Not only did the bookshelf move during the storm; all the furniture moved, including the refrigerator. Some of their belongings even moved from one room to another room. Kara and Lemmon packed The view from Kara Tassone's house in Grenada after Hurricane Ivan. Her neighbor's two-story apartment complex with a view was reduced to rubble. According to NASA's Earth Observatory, Ivan hit Grenada at a level 5, with winds topping out at 160 mph. two backpacks with supplies and important items and moved to a friend's house that had not received as much damage. Between the1 two of them, they had only 30 pounds in supplies. They gave the rest of their salvageable things to locals and other people who had lost more than they did. While this was going on, Judy worried about her family in Grenada. "I was reading everything I could find on the Internet and sleeping with the Weather Channel on," Judy said. See Hurricanes page 9 Free tuition to be given away during halftime "I've never heard of it," Richardson said about the promotion. "They should 4140 Harrison Blvd Ogden,UT 84408 have marketed it better. I think it stinks because I didn't even know. I stick around at work parties just to see what you could pay TO WEBER STATE STUDENTS Hundreds of students attended the win because you have to stay to the end. Weber State University football game I definitely would have gone if I knew I last Saturday against UC Davis, but one One Thousand Four Hundred Thirty-Eight could have won." student, Tyson Richardson, chose to stay Although Richardson missed out on away. Not only did he miss out on the the tuition giveaway, another student For Tuition action with the 'Cats barely losing 29 to will have a chance to win during the next 31, he lost out on $1,438. home football game on Oct. 2. WSCU will be at every game until they get a winner. "I didn't even know there was a game "I would love to see somebody win, at home," Richardson said. "I thought I really would," said Patrick Van Aarle, they were playing UC Davis on the road." Richardson's name was called during The larger-than-life check to be given out to a WSU student during a home football WSCU marketing service representative. The promotion started when WSCU halftime as part of a promotion by Weber game hangs in Assistant Director of Athletic Marketing Jeff Tingey's office. decided they wanted to get more students State Credit Union and WSU athletics. He claim his larger-than-life check. waiting for financial aid to kick in and pay was given three minutes to make his way Richardson said he already paid for his him back. He said it would have been nice down to the WSCU representative and tuition out of his own pocket and is still to receive the money. See Tuition page 9 By NATALIE CLEMENS editor in chief | The Signpost WEBER STATE CREDIT UNION $1,438 Final provost candidate Student Senate mulls over possibility of restructuring student government presents on campus By MARIA VILLASENOR managing editor | The Signpost The last provost candidate scheduled to speak presented himself to more than 100 of his fellow Weber State University peers. Michael Vaughan, dean of the WSU's Goddard School of Business & Economics, gave the third provost presentation on Monday. "1 think one of the thines the provost should do is to build a bridge between those two cultures (academic and non-academic) and to communicate to the nonacademic side of the university from the perspective of a faculty member," Vaughan said. In his presentation, Vaughan analyzed how WSU can grow and change in the coming years, sources for increased funds and the university's basic commitments. He noted the need for finding multiple See Provost page 13 ByjEFFCHRISTENSEN campus affairs editor 1 The Signpost Weber State University student senators have a week to consider and discuss with students a resolution that would encourage the development and implementation of a new student government structure. A vote on the resolution could take place as early as Monday. If this resolution passes, it will be the start of a long process that could combine the student activities council with WSU communication is needed student government. between student government and Although the proposed student activities council. It also resolution is only a suggestion, says that senators are spending if approved it would too much time and effort allow further study planning activities that and planning before could be better done any legislation could with the help of the be written. The final activities council. plan would then According to have to pass through the resolution, the senate and would collaboration between come before the students in the the two groups jaeeds to take next election as a referendum. place to enhance the use of The resolution, written by multiple budgets alonp with Health Professions Senator Zane Williams, suggests that better - *v See Restructuring page 13 |