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Show WSU students present at NCUR . . . page 4 WSU victorious in Las Vegas . . . page 4 AT A GLANCE EDITORIAL BUSINESS & SCIENCE SPORTS CLASSIFIEDS 2 3 4 6 7 VOL 82 ISSUE 83 FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 WWW.WSUSIGNPOST.COM SignP 0 St WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY 'Cats present research at NCUR Students begin presenting Thursday nr c*ATF ILISLIVA By Nathan Davis editor in chief I The Signpost - 0 Bridge Effect on Benthic Arthropods in a Wisco Christopher D. Aeschliman, Department of Biology, Univ to 0111A. ,z.N40 PHOTOS BY TYLER BROWN I THE SIGNPOST Students present research in the Shepherd Union Ballrooms to students, faculty and staff. Inside • • • • • • Profits of WSU strata' pneeniadons Ogden Spam= WI/Ipso* dont left Mobi parer plant sex educed= Saarksin owls UMW dadation page - The Weber State University campus was filled with more than 3,000 students on Thursday for the largest undergraduate research conference in the nation. Thursday marked the first day of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, which is being held at WSU. Chad Mosher, associate director of the Shepherd Union Building, said the first day of NCUR has gone well, and that the preparation put forth previously has paid off. "Things are excellent and running very smoothly," Mosher said. "We haven't had a lot of major issues, just a lot of people, but it's been handled very well, so the planning has paid off." Mosher said the turnout has been good for the event and that he was happy to see so many people on WSU's campus. "There are easily over 3,000 students. Our registration was just a little over 3,100." On Thursday, poster sessions were held in the Shepherd Union Ballrooms, oral presentations throughout the day in classrooms and a main speech offered for NCUR participants. WSU students can also attend any of the events for free for the rest of the conference. Each day of the conference, a main speaker will be featured at 10 a.m. in the Val A. Browning Center's Austad Auditorium. A live feed will also be provided in an overflow area. Also on campus Thursday for the conference were many graduate students from across the country. Mosher said students were offered a chance to meet with representatives from many diverse schools. "It's a great opportunity for Weber State students to see what grad schools are out there," Mosher said. There were representatives from more than 20 graduate schools in the union building during Thursday's activities. Former WSU student Hailey Cox, who has been helping with NCUR, See Research page 5 Live to serve Musical inspires lecture WSU and student win national awards for community service were required to do community service for a class said they were very likely to volunteer again, and some students just keep on volunteering once they've started. Weber State University is curKowalewski shared how Erdman began rently in the spotlight for receiv- the service project she will be honored for. ing two national service awards. Erdman lived in a low-income neighThe Corporation for National and borhood where many families didn't have Community Service has named WSU enough to eat. Three years ago, when to the President's Higher Erdman had to do Education Community community service Service Honor Roll for ex- See Monday's edition for her COMM 2110 emplary service for the for a story on Patricia class, she mobilized sixth consecutive year. a group of students Also, WSU junior Pa- Erdman, recipient of with the goal of gettricia Erdman will re- the Newman Civic ting food for those ceive the Newman Civic in her neighborhood Fellows Award Monday. Fellows Award. who were in need. These distinctions came Erdman spearas no surprise to Brenda headed the efKowalewski, director of WSU's Com- fort, working out an arrangement with munity Involvement Center. She attri- Smith's Foods. Then, every day for the butes the large amount of community rest of the semester, Erdman and memservice to the number of ways WSU pro- bers of her group picked up carloads of motes and encourages civic involvement. baked goods from Smith's Foods stores "Weber's mission lends itself to ser- and distributed them among the needy. vice," Kowalewski said. "Higher educaWhen the semester was over, Erdman tion runs the gamut. Some schools are could have assumed the service was over entirely devoted to research or other too, Kowalewski said. Instead, she continthings, but at Weber, our mission is ued her food security project, and operato prepare people to be involved, ac- tions increased to the point where she was tive members of their communities." delivering whole pallets of frozen foods to According to information gathered by the CIC, 75 percent of WSU students who See Service page 5 By Rusden Scott news reporter I The Signpost Sillito's lecture. Another who attended was political science professor Gary Johnson. He also spoke on the theatA Weber State University musi- rical inspiration behind the lecture. "These portrayals of American life cal inspired a lecture Wednesday by John Sillito, focusing on the his- in dramatic form are quintessential to tory of the Great Depression and the understanding the American experiWorks Progress Administration, which ence," Johnson said, "how art, politics sponsored the Federal Theatre Proj- and policy intersect for a deeper and ect that led to the play's creation. more nuanced and more enjoyable unThe WSU Department of Perform- derstanding of the American mosaic." The lecture was ing Arts has a long traabout Franklin Delano dition of putting on "These portrayals Roosevelt's New Deal plays and musicals for of American life in that focused primarily the campus and genon the history of the eral public. One of this dramatic form are Works Progress Adspring semester's muministration. During sicals, titled The Cra- quintessential to the Great Depression dle Will Rock, began its understanding the in the 1930s, Roosevelt run last Friday. It tells the story of corporate American experience ushered in the New Deal Program, which greed and corruption sought to create jobs • • • pitted against the forcin the United States. es of unions, which are The WPA was part seen in a positive light Johnson, - Gary of the New Deal and during the musical. WSU political science is credited with emWritten in 1937, it was very controversial for professor ploying millions for public works projects. its time and frowned Parts of the WPA uponbythegovernment. "The advantage of theater at a uni- were dedicated to promoting art, muversity is that, oftentimes, the theater sic and theater projects, which emthat is put on is historical important ployed thousands of people. Some of theater, whether it's Moliere's Tartuffe the projects also helped bring the artisor the play from the 1930s, The Cradle tic talents of previously ignored ethnic Will Rock," said Kathryn MacKay, as- minorities into the national spotlight. "They were particularly active in prosociate professor of history for WSU. moting black theater, ethnic theater, MacKay was among many professors, as well as students, who attended See Lecture page 5 By Thomas Alberts asst. managing editor I The Signpost |