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Show Need For Mens' Lounge Grows as 200 Vets Return to College Life With an increase in registration of over 200 veterans, Weber college continues to be without a decent lounge for men. Men with free hours roam the campus like "lost souls," their only refuge the College Inn. For over four months thcvo has been talk circulating that a men's lounge would be established in the "near future," but today there is no satisfactory lounge and only more cob-webs and dust in the old one. The present "'lounge" is located on the top floor of the Gymnasium building and is colloquially spolcen of as "the next thing to heaven,',' which will be verified by any boy who has ever ascended to it. Many veterans and even a few "old timers " are amazed to learn that there is such a thing as a men's lounge, and upon seeing it often wisecrack, "No wonder they hid it away up here." The "lounge" is indeed a sight for watery eyes, there being only one rundown pool table, a table (rumored to be a ping-pong table) and several hard wooden chairs, to prevent it from looking like a baren stockroom. The delapidated pool table, which might be mistaken for a museum piece, unfortunately is the only means of entertainment. It has been used over such a long period that it now has six "gullies" on it, one "gullie" running to each pocket. The only sport in a game on this table is to suesa which "gullie" your shot will become imbedded in, and although this type of pool is different it fails to quench the fellows thirst for entertainment. To add to the irony of the whole situation the girls' dorm is making a strong bid to "steal" the fellows' only form of enjoyment by having the pool table transferred to the gals' dormitory. It seems that the fellows will have to play tiddle-winks or 'Good Vigorous Kick' Needed By 'I Cant's' "What many of us need most is a good vigorous kick in the cant's!" Ann Babcock said something very clever and true when she made the above statement. The most frequent obstacle we have to overcome is our doubt in our ability to accomplish success. It is so much easier to say "I can 't " instead of "I can. ' ' This fact is especially noticeable among students. It is a physical law that energy will take the easiest course. However, human nature has extended this law to include the psychological realm of reasoning. Isn't it too bad students practice this policy? How much farther ahead we would be individually as well as collectively if each of us had the initiative to say "I can" and "I will." "Old Maid" to pass the time if the pool table is removed from the lounge. Several of the returning vets report that this lounge situation has been prevailing for many years and that each year there has been the usual talk but little or no action. One year the men became so aroused that they marched into the girls' lounee and dethroned the women from their luxurious surroundings. A school official has stated that those in charge realize the seriousness of the situation and are not helplessly standing by but are planning one to be situated in one of the postwar buildings. The only trouble with this is that these postwar activities cannot take place until the housing and building shortages are over, and as things look now this won't be for for quite sometime. The point we would like to imply is, that everyone concerned realizes the condition, and are sure we will have a fine men's lounge when the new buildings are constructed, but the question in our mind is that can we ask the men to be contented with their present surroundings while they are here at Weber, and build the new men's lounge for the future classes? To us the answer is NO!! The whole thing has been put off too long, and the thing to do, until new buildings are constructed, is to provide a decent, suitable place for the men to relax when they have free time. Vivid "Skunk Stripes" Adorn USAC Campus A new style in hair-dos fast becoming popular at the Utah State Agricultural college, is "skunk stripes." Many of the coeds are obtaining an individualistic hair style by having their brunette hair branded by a vivid dash of peroxide down the center of their waves. Here's a style for you Weber coeds who are looking for something different. WEVyAiiI. LOUNGE 1 - m m A LQUN 1 'gljohrrsort- Page 2 WEBER COLLEGE SIGNPOST Wednesday, February . H4t Heated Diseussion Occurs At Dance As To Contributor Of New Drapes In Ballroom Dear Editor. . Upon attending one of the recent dances held at Weber several of uie alumni, including myself, were heard to remark how nice the hall looked since the addition, of new drapes has made. It seems that a heard discussion began. gathering momentum as it proceeded. You see there were varied opinions as to who or what class made possible the drapes for the ballroom. Members of the 1940-11 class made claim to said contribution. The question is still unsettled. Could you enlighten us on the subject? Floyd Champneys. Dear Floyd, According to the information we were able to get concerning the drapes in the ballroom, ihey were presented by the graduating class of 1942-43. The Editor. For all the students who never see a falling star or find a four leaf clover, the old art of wishing for something to come true can now be realized. The Val Norn social club of the Brigham Young- University have set up a wishing well on the campus, and anyone may realize their most secret wishes by dropping a coin of any denomination into its depths. Each week the monev is recovered from the well and TilaQrl in n fnnl f n c? nrlciYi nviinvi Vinlrl I ing to be erected on the campus when con struction conditions are more favorable. . lit Sig Editorial Office 214 Mociuh Building Published semi-monthly by students of Weber College Editor , Paul O'Connor Business Mgr Eva Deane Tippetts Front Page Elaine Bniaillicuf Editorial Page Virginia Leo Society Page Iris Kunler Sports Page Phil Kenny Assistant' Business Manager Dorothy Ridges Photographer Calvin Lovel&nd Cartoonist Billy Johnson Editorial Adviser C. M. Nllsson Business Adviser Harold Hundley Circulation Manager Leo B. Adams Assistant Circulation Manager Adona Cat! Reporters lunior Barnes, Kdna Joyce Thorson. Betty Wilson. Robert Odenthal. Richard Dover. Dean Mayberry. Norma Fletcher, Robert Kearl. Nancy I'etscher. Leo B. Adams. Dean Painter, Iiuic Christense:!. Marvin Clarke. M.vrcne (.recnucll. Beverly MeCaffery. Zona MrC'ulloch. McCaffery. Zona McC'ulloch. Justice Cray-eroft. Art Alhertson, Ray Adams. Bill Carpenter, Hex Malan, Floyd Champneys, Dean Baddley, -lay Thackeray. . Member Associated Collegiate Press a professor runs home in tears to his wife, it doesn't mean he has been fired. He has probably been "flunked" by his students. was thought up by the student board's academic relations committee, and gives the long hoped for opportunity of the students to "tell off" their professors. Questionnaires, distributed to students asked that they rate their teachers, the teaching methods, efficiency, discuss such things as cribbing for test, and social attitudes acquired at the university. The answers, disregarding personalities, revealed that lectures, the most common method of teaching were considered the least helpful. Small discussion sections and quiz recitation sections rated on top. Angle Of Hat Is Indicator Of Various, Moods Tip to the ladies; you can cell what mood your gentleman friend is in if you watch the angle at which he is wearing his hat. Psychologists say that if he is wearing his hat pulled down over both ears he is angry, according to the December issue of pood House keeping magazine, j Ot course he might have just lost an argument to an opponent with an explosive temper too.) "Hat well back on head: carefree, hopeful, hot," the article states in part. "Hat pulled forward on head: cautious, secretive, on the defensive. Hat straight on top of head: preoccupied, bewildered. Hat tilted slightly to left side: modern, progressive, thinking, good mood for home improvements. Hat well on left side : hard day at office. Hat tilted to rigght: re bellious, independent, not to be engaged in arguments. Hat in hand: new haircut." Although men, on an average, buy only one hat every two years, some well known men go for hats in a big way. Winston Churchill has the larg-est repertoire on record, with everything from engineer's cap to polo helmet, though he's best known for his square bowler. Bing Crosby and Grover Whalen I are pushovers for hats, and Mr. I Whalen breaks out his topper at the drop of a you-know-what, j Writers Beginning To Find A Rich Source Of Material hi rami bar AmpnVnti & --- - JL M. M. scenes While a prisoner of the Germans one of the undergraduate veterans at the University of Texas got a bright idea on how to mass produce maps vital to escaping prisoners. He and his buddies, in Stalag Luft cooked up a box of Jello and let it cool in a flat pan. Then they laid a map, traced in ink, face-down on the cooled Jello which absorbed and retained the ink. When a sheet of blank paper was pressed against the gelatin, a map was reproduced. This crude form of nactographing allowed them to run off more than 500 copies at one time. The editor of the Daily Trojan, University of Southern California, has been informed of this and was all set to lay in a store of Jello in case the printing presses went on the "bum." Unfortunately Jello is pretty hard to get these days, so the plan has been temporarily relegated to file "13." Speaking of toppers, the late J. P. Morgan bought a special high-roofed car to fit his. "According to the experts, the men hardest on hats are doctors, lawyers, newsmen, who give them an awful besting because they are always in a hurry. The easiest: salesmen, actors, decorators, because they're more meticulous and are always smoothing, pattingg, creasing and recreasing their hats." By Pearl Allred American literature is beginning to make its influence felt because, for the first time in our history, writers are trying to understand America. Suddenly they are aware of an imperative need to study the home 'scene and learn something about the roots from which they have sprung. They have at last realized what a vast rich field is here to draw upon, and they are driven by an urgent necessity to interpret what ihey see for others. There has been no healthier tendency in American writing than this concerted attempt at self-knowledge which is springing from all regions of the country. It is demonstrating itself in many "forms the Folkway series, the Life-in-America volumes, the various state guides, the Rivers of America series, and the immense number of historical novels now in popular demand. The following list of books might well be recommended to readers who seek a better understanding of America: "Journey into America," by Donald Culross Peattle. A re-interpretation of America and the American spirit in a series of sketches, each developing some aspect of America's past, local history, or characteristics. "The Road of a Naturalist," by Donald Culross Peattie. Description of America's natural beauties as seen by the author on an automobile trip through the Southwest. (Both of these books are beautifully written and touched with a rare and charming philosophical quality). "No Life for a Lady," by Agnes Morley Cleaveland. Reminiscences of lffe on a New Mexico oattle ranch fifty years ago when the wild West was really wild. "Mormom Country," by Wallace Stegner. Beautiful, vivid descriptions of the Utah scene combined with a great amount of information and lively comment on the Mormons. "The World of Washington Irving," "The Flowering of New j England,'.' and "New England: Indian Summer" all by Van Wyck Brooks. Three books which, taken together, might well constitute a cultural study of American life and letters in its earlier stages. "The Year of Decision: 1846," by Bernard DeVoto. A compact, comprehensive, and entirely fascinating volume of Western history.The above list, all non-fiction, might be supplemented by the fictional works of such purely regional novelists as Elizabeth Madox Roberts, H. L. Davis, Stark Young, Carl Carmer, Du Bose Heyward, J. P. Marquand. Conrad Richter and Walter Van Tilburgh Clark. The last two belong strictly to the West, having created, respectively, the near-classics, "The Sea of dent." Dear Editor, I am only one of the many fel. lows at Weber this quarter who are wondering if anyone is beginning to realize how many men's clubs there were at Weber and how many of them are now active. 1 think it is disgusting to see so many men around and so few of them in clubs. Why isn't something done about it? J. T. Dear J. T., In inter-club council this situation was discussed and it was decided that at least two more clubs would be reorganized in the near future. This will make a total of five men's clubs of the campus. The Editor. Dear Editor, Speaking for the returning veterans, is it necessary that we, after having three or more years of health education in the service, take the same course here at Weber. It seems the graduation requirements at this institution include a course in health education. Lex Malan. Dear Lex, We inquired at the registrar's office about this, and she told us that veterans are not required to take health education.-The Editor. AND THE FLOWERS ARE FURNISHED BY Klenke Floral 2955 Washington Blvd. Dear Editor, Could it be that the girls of Weber college are filing in behalf of attendance at the basketball games? In your last is- Lundstrom's "Distinctive Gifts" OGDEN, UTAH Ace Photo Service Quality Dry Cleaning Co. VERNON S. POULSEN, CLARA W. POULSEN 2215 Washington Blvd. Ogden, Utah Phone 2-5133 328 Twenty-fourth Street Odgen, Utah Dial 2-0020 Dark Room Supplies Photo Finishing EVERYTHING PHOTOGRAPHIC sue of the Signpost, an ardent basketball fan stated this fact with frank defiance. In behalf of the girls T wish to make clear to him that we are not given any proper announcement of the games and therefore we can't enter into the spirit of the ,hing. What is wrong with the advertising committee? Nancy Fctscher. j Eat Brown's Ice Cream i y Fountain Pen Headquarters Steve's Office Supply 416 24th Street. Dear Editor, Due to the rising tendency for ex-servicemen to occasiim-ly crave a few moments of relaxation, I would like to suggest a men's day room with comfortable chairs and a place to relax and listen to some music. It really doesn't look good to see the fellows around the school with their heads on a desk or sleeping on a bench. Do the girls deserve the very finest accommodations whilt the fellows, who are tired just walk around looking in vain for a comfortable chair. Any comments from the editorial staff, faculty members, or students would be appreciated. Max Lowder. Dear Max, You may get; a ray of hope from the editorial in this issue concerning the men's lounge. It-seems that the plans call tor an improvement. The Editor. Dear Editor, Why don't they ring the bells so that they can be heard all over the school. They are especially hard to hear in the College Inn. I am always late to class because I can't hear the bell when it rings. Tardy Sally, Dear Sally, The trouble isn't that the bells Qon't ring loud enough but that the noise in the halls and in the C. I. is too much competition for the bells. The Editor. . - ' Recently Maj. Gen. George J. Richards, of the U. S. army, said: "We have learned during this war that raising and maintaining modern armies is expensive. Yet we should be no less willing to sacrifice to maintain the peace than to win a war." |