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Show a: a. -" Publisher Semi-Mont hly During The College Year Official Student Paper of WEBER JUNIOR COLLEGE Ogden, Utah Member Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Press Editorial Office iOS Idoench Building Editor J. M. Demos Business Manager Ardell Russell Associate Ed. . . . Marjorie Vowles Front Page Dewey Hudson Editorials Ada Weir Society Nola Agricola ,. .Margaret Peterson Sports Les Gardiner , Kathleen Davis Circulation Kent Baggs Dewey Hudson Photographer Budd Johnson Typist Opal Rogerson Consultant C. M. Nilsson Reporters: Spence Loughton, Dallas Burton, Helen Williams, Nell Barnett, Ray Reeman, Ed Anderson, Budd Johnson, Jay Bachman, Ray Wright, and Bob Dixon. Reverberations . . . Reverberations from the recently conducted panel discussion forum may be heard for a great while to come. Issues that were voiced by students were for the most part controversial, and simple solutions were not reached regarding many of the problems. Wherein, then, mightn't we ask, lay the value of such a forum? The value of free speech as embodied in this assembly cannot be over-emphasized. It could never be overplayed in the face of world conditions which make its very existence unique. The potentialities suggested by unified discussion are boundless. It is from such groups as these all over the nation that policies of world importance are solved. Valueless? Not in America! It was regrettable that the faculty was unable to participate in the assembly. Their presence might have brought new facts to light that might have entirely altered opinions reached. Only through the cooperative effort manifest in this assembly can we find a way in which to give everyone a hand in meeting the increasing student needs of Webercollege. Another Chance . . . Once again final exams and registration have been completed and we find ourselves in the turmoil of orienting to our schedule for spring quarter. To every sophomore student, spring quarter holds a special significance for it is the last he will spend in the classrooms of his alma mater. Some of us are just beginning to realize and appreciate the influence Weber has played in the molding of our lives, others have been conscious of it from the beginning, but a few others will not recognize the fact until after the graduation exercises and they have enrolled in the school o flife. Weber, fortunately, consists of a number of outstanding sophomores sprinkled throughout the vast number of average students. But spring quarter offers a challenge and an opportunity to the average student to accomplish something of which he and Weber will be proud to achieve scholastic honors, to participate in activities, to win new friends, to develop a more pleasing personality, to be of service to others, to excell in something beyond the scope of his previous achievement. And Bands Will Play . . . Musical, marching, and twirling talents of 5,200 students representing about 80 high schools from Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming will be displayed in Ogden at the music festival scheduled for May 8, 9, and 10. The festival will include contests for bands, orchestras, soloists, and choruses. The Ogden chamber of commerce is sponsoring the event. Mr. Clair Johnson, W. C. band director, is chairman. Loyalty day parade scheduled for Friday, May 9, will be lent special attraction by the participation of the many bands which will march in it. Climaxing the festival will be a program consisting of marching demonstrated by the best band in that particular talent, and the awarding of plaques to other winners. Three thousand band students will play together and a performance will be given by the two best twirlers. Finally fire works will be touched off. Selection of Ogden as the site for this year's festival program will bring added recognition to our city as well as to Weber college. Print Dresses . . . Print dresses are a must for every girl's wardrobe, as will be illustrated during Print Dress week by the beautiful, but not dumb, coeds of the Associated Women Students. Spring is traditionally ushered into Weber amid an array of gay designs of every hue displayed by feminine pulchritude. However, last year a certain group of male enthusiasts appeared like "the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la" in brightly colored print pants. Rosella Larkin, Louise Dixon, Marian Fiet, and other A. W. S. officers have set aside the first week in April as Print Dress week and invite every Weber girl yes, and fellows too to participate. April Fools Not Confined To W. C. Survey Reveals BY ARDELL RUSSELL As students of Weber college we know that all is not "clear sailing ahead," in America Dr. Charles Seymour, president of Yale university, stress the importance of the university and colleges taking the lead in the resurgence of faith in the American way of life. "For the immediate future and, in my opinion, for years to come, we must all of us, students and professors, recognize that whatever demands the necessities of national defense lay upon us, they are paramount. We must further recognize that in view of the privileges which have been given to us we carry a special responsibility for helping to develop and carry through plans for national defense as they are determined by the organs of government. I believe that the movement can be carried through without serious interference with the intellectual education of our students." Recently met a co-ed who wore shell rimmed glasses because she needed them. Skidmore college students have started a campaign to buy a mobile kitchen for the British. Massachusetts State college is seeking to change its name to University of Massachusetts. From Salt Lake to Ogden Man: We must be coming near Ogden now. Wife: How do you know? Man: We're hitting more people yes, borrowed. Beggar: "Have you got enough money for a cup of coffee?" Student: "Oh, I'll manage somehow, thank you." Philip Hood says that the day he was 18 he smoked his first cigaret and kissed his first girl. Since then he hasn't found time for smoking. -New Mexico Lobo. This New Mexico Lobo really dishes it out, here's another one. Robert Simpers (very observingly) : "Your stockings seem rather wrinkled." Violets From Jeannie . . . Dear Editor! Violets to your paper. I can't give you orchids for they express something very noble and flowery of which you are the least deserving. I choose to present violets because they are small flowers, as you are small in some of your opinions appearing in the Scandal column, and because though violets smell sweet they soon lose their scent and wither. Thus I predict your future if some of this shallowness is not removed and some cold, stark realism put into your column. Respectfully, Jeannie (with the light brown hair) Answer: (Dear Jeannie) We accept your criticism none too amazed. Thank you! We are wondering, however, if your opinions are not of a personal slant. Recently, I believe, we wrote a sentence or two about you in our column. Is your attitude toward us connected in any way with this? We are of course extremely sorry that you were not more notably mentioned and will do better next time. We are your friend, Jeannie, and don't forget it. Affectionately, Ed. Dear Editor: In the due course of human evolution we are supposed to be preparing for the great day to come. That day when good will triumph over evil and everyone will live happily ever after. This being the ideal philosophy, we should all be studying and striving, if vainly, to reach the top rung of the ladder. But in my estimation it isn't knowledge that counts; it's the degree and quality of one's apple-polishing ability. This being so, we need not study the old way anymore; we need only to improve our technique, as it is termed. Tours truly, Earl Francis Answer: Apple-polishing cannot be praised too highly as a method of bringing a teacher's attention to the vast amount of work a student has done in a given subject. It is, however, also surprising the sublime faith students place in the belief that their professors were born yesterday or the day before. Yours truly, Ed. Dear Editor: Why are we, the students of Weber college, forced to take such subjects as orientation, physical education 40, and extra physical education classes? We do not get credit at Weber or at the senior colleges which we intend going to. Isn't this a waste of time as well as a waste of money? In my opinion, a student could accumulate in a week's time the knowledge that he is forced to learn in a quarter's time of orientation. I think on the whole that a student's time is more valuable to him. As for physical education 40, most students not taking a ter minal course take a class In physi ology. Why should he be forced to take a class in physical education 40 as well? Isn't this justrepetition? Sincerely, Nell Barnett Dear Editor: I should like to praise the per sons responsible for the new plan of registering. To Weber it is a fine idea and something that is needed to a great extent. In this plan each student met alone with his instructor and received more individual attention but did not have to clamber among students to ask a question or wait several hours to receive necessary advice. With final registration, the much dreaded routine went off with precision and rapidity. Everyone knew what to do and did it quickly. There was no longer a long wait of two or three hours at the office window. Paying the tuition and all other steps connected with it were taken care of as the student filed out of the registration room without long waiting. Sincerely, Helen Wililams Dear Editor: When is this institution going to discontinue the use of gym cards? While not an actual evil, they are nevertheless irksome. It was so cozy around here before, when all a student had to do was to show his beaming face for admittance. Kathleen Davis Answer: It seems that you are the ill-fated victim of a cruel college. Rut to be perfectly frank with you, how many students have that "beaming face" so necessary for admittance? And if they did, Harry would soon discourage the beams with his G-man style. So after all to be on the safe side, don't you think we should keep that cordial feeling between cage-men and students and continue the tying bond element? Ed. "Pay-Or-Else" Plan Works for Acorn Did you see all those signs on the doors calling special club meetings last week? There was a reason, and an interesting one, too. It seems that only one or two clubs had paid for their pages in the yearbook before the deadline set at March 1. In worried desperation the business staff of the Acorn extended the deadline to March 21, which was last Friday, airti threatened to remove any pages not paid for in full by that date. Hence, the speciaJ meetings to raise the cash. Budd Johnson, Acorn editor, commented on the situation saying, "Many persons feel we are being unfair in our attitude toward clubs, that we have no right to charge so much for space in the yearbook. This, we feel, is not true. The money received from the clubs is only a little over 70 per cent of the cost of printing these pages. The other 30 per cent comes from student body funds. Even under these circumstances it was found in checking over last year's accounts that some of the clubs made no effort at all to pay their share. It is not right that this condition should exist, so this year we are clamping down on all organizations owing money to the yearbook." According to a plan set forth by the inter-club council, Johnson said, social clubs have been arranged alphabetically, with the exception of one club, which was moved to conform to layout specifications. Each page has the insignia of the club printed on it over a splash of color. Where space permitted on the double page layouts, a candid picture of the club members is being included. Dear Editor: Because school is meant to be enjoyed, I have been wondering, with due respect to the old rehables, just why we can't have overstuffed chairs in classes and in the library. The comfort we would get from these chairs would make us even more willing than we now are to study and prepare our lessons. An "I seek comfort" student, Zada McGill Answer: (Dear "I seek comfort") Whatever gave you the idea that you should enjoy school? You are supposed to be here to learn something; not to be comfortable. The sooner you find out that life is not a "bowl of cherries" the better off you will be. Still, you have something there. The University of Idaho, Southern Branch, has a union building, and a student body of only 1,000 teachers' figures and of only 800 students' figures. Students paid half by having it tacked on to their registration, but it was their idea. And the government paid half. State government, (we) think. So since you brought this up, we appoint you chairman of the committee for consruction of a union building at Weber college. Begin work any time now. You will have plenty of help. Student body prexy, Mark Austad, vice prexy, Emma Martin, Treasurer Gardner and Secretary Hogge. Also President H. A. Dixon, we think. Also Signpost, we know. Who doesn't seek comfort and the equipment becoming to his station! Ed. Dr. Charles H. Titus, professor of political science at the University of California, has been appointed public relations officer for the Fourth U. S. army. The University of New Hampshire motion picture library in 1940 served nearly one-fifth of the state's population. COLLEGE GIRL PERMANENTS SPECIAL $3.00 FOR EASTER (Elaine McGuIr) THE BEAUTY STUDIO THIRD FLOOR PENNEVS Call 44S6 For Early Appointments' Week-end Woes Cause of Blue Monday Continued from ? nice, after you've been driving all nite. You just get to sleep and bang the alarm goes off waking every body up including the neighbors three houses down the block. And they know if any body would get up at six o'clock after coming home at three in that house, its certainly us fellows. Ha! Ha! You should see Mother's face when we come down to breakfast. I guess she thinks her family has suddenly enlarged and she didn't know anything about it. The one thing I don't under stand, after getting a good breakfast under gut belts we half to go tooting off and play tennis until were so under-nurished we could fly. Telephone Then in the middle of a nice after noon nap the blankety blank telephone rings. Yes Mother I'm home. Then with only a few minutes to get ready up drives the fellows, with their dad's car steaming and ready for action. This time girls are to be our object. The dogon women anyway. If you've ever been with a couple of love sick fellows you can under stand why I'd rather sleep. Well any way more running around to do. One of the fellows girls lives out there and another lives some place else and after all the running around is over its time to start. Start for what? Yeah thats another funny thing. After tearing up the city for three hours you suddenly find you don't know what to do. One girl doesn't want to go swimming because it will ruin her hair, another doesn't like to go to shows, and still another doesn't like to dance because she isn't dressed just right. Time Wasting So it turns out all that we can do, because so much time's been wasted dickering, is to ride around and watch other people go places. Keeping this up several hours the gang finiaUy decides to go home once more. And this time you don't know how good the bed feels. Six o'clock and another tennis date, then church and the family dinner. I just get stuffed with good food and Honk, Honk! The fellows again. This time we're off to find a boy friend that is in the forest service posted up in the mountains. Drive, drive, drive thats all we've been doing since Friday nite. I still don't see why we should leave home after a nice dinner and get up so high in the Mountains that our ears pop. Student Forum Lists Needs Continued from ? "only one social club has actually lived up to its avowed purpose of supporting student body activities. This club was the only one to assist in the season ticket sale to football games last fall. "As they now exist, the social clubs have the idea that they are running the school, even though they exist in a small minority," he continued. "They are constantly competing with each other and unitedly against the student body as a whole. Something must be done to remedy this situation if the clubs are to continue to survive." Defense of Clubs Returning the blame to the student body officers' policy of "club limitation," Earl Tanner and Floyd Seager defended the clubs by saying that ''our every action has been blocked by the student body officers who have refused to allow us to sponsor desired activities for the school such as dances, etc." Miss Loyal Christensen voiced the opinion of many of the unaffiliated students when she pointed out that many of the students "were unaffiliated through choice and had no desire to be forced into joining a social club." Vocational "There is definitely a problem that exists in the correlation of our two branches of education at Weber," Mr. Buckner said. "We all know that the vast majority of the students who are taking trades, business or other vocational courses are not participating in the other activities of Weber. Attendance at assemblies, dances, and other activities by this group is very slight, but is very desired." Pointing out that a great many of the students attending classes in the vocational division are also employed elsewhere, Darold Burt admitted the problem did exist but said that "the blame for this condition cannot be blamed entirely upon either the vocational students or upon the students who are pursuing regular college work." "Further efforts should be made by organizations within the school, Yeah, when the Rangers Station is found we find that our dear friend had his wires twisted. And we wasn't supposed to come up until next week. Because he was out on the trail this week. Til admit it was beautiful country but why couldn't we stay home and look at it in a picture book. Anyway having a good time, getting home late but safe, we all desided it was one swell weekend. So we make plans for another weekend. Forty Students Make Winter W. C. Honor Roll Continued from T dell, Berniece McEntire, Eleanor Perry, Wallace Pingree, Melvin Randall, Lorraine Ritchie, Michie Sato, LaJean Sessions, Geraldine Smith, Margaret Tingey, Marion Williams. Virginia Larson. Ralph Barnard, Rollin Beason, Marjorie Andelin. Merrill Bird, Ruth Bowen, Lael Carter, Reed Coray, G w e n i t h Creager, Alta Cottrell, Lorene Donalson, Willard Draper, LaVon Earl, Darrell Garfield, Thelma Gilbert, Grant Hawkes, Raymond Kerr, Howard Page, Bern ice Per-rins, Anna Saunders, Mary Simpson, Aline Smith. Evelyn Strom-btrrg, Elizabeth Blair, Ada Weir, Keith Wilcox, Darrell Williams. Gertrude Schindler, Betty Maisey, Ruth Donaldson, Louise Burnett, Reah Brown, David Clarke, Alma Ray Jones, Lewis Joseph, Eugene Hall, Floyd Lay ton, Leonard Miller, Vernon Beecher, Fred Madsen, Donald Stewart, Russell Buhler. Wallace Stephenson, Royal Wilde. Daren Young, LaMar Green, and Gordon Jones. however, to encourage such participation," Associated Men's President Don Buswell concluded. Kxtra-Curricular Mr. McEntire concluded the forum with a summary ofextra-curricular activities when he said that "it isn't a series of new activities that we need at Weber as much as it is a greater participation in the ones already existing." Too many activities are being participated in by a small handful of students who seem overly talented, he said. "Instead of one student participating on say, all three publications, forensics, drama, and music, which results in possibly poor work on all, students with lesser abilities should be encouraged to participate in one, or possibly two, activities in which they are sincerely interested." Under the direction of Miss Lucy Denning of the stenographic department, four shorthand students made transcripts of the assembly in order that the- faculty members who were meeting in the first faculty meeting of the quarter at the same time would be able to have a concensus of student opinion regarding the issues discussed. Applications or Honor Points Solicited Soon Any student desiring to receive honor points for his participation in student activities must apply for consideration from the faculty director of the activity immediately, according to a ruling set down bv, the awards committee recently. The change in regulation from the former method of faculty awarding alone will enable every student who has worked upon the activities to receive honor points for the work done. In many instances of the past, they report, many individuals were overlooked because they had not participated to the extent of personally comiruj to the attention of the advisor. MRS. 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