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Show THE SIGNPOST Published by the Associated Students of Weber College To be published VVednesdaily following favorable reception of this issue. TEMPORARY STAFF Co-editors Frank McQuown, Max McEwan Features Dorothy Dixon, Josephine Stone Society Marjorie Glines Sports Pat Quinn Advisor Cluster M. Nilsson EDITORIALS A first issue of Signpost as a newspaper has become a reality. For the past three years various plans and proposals to establish a newspaper at Weber college have been studied, discussed, temporarily adopted and rejected. At last a proposal to publish a weekly paper has been accepted by the board of control. In this, the first issue of that newspaper, an attempt has been made to justify the years af research and untiring effort extended by various individuals towards making a reality of an improbability. It is the hope of the editors that the first issue will in some measure attain the standard of excellence promised by those instrumental in making its existence possible. Dependent upon its favorable reception Signpost will be published weekly during the entire school year. Constant improvement and an increase in size are the immediate goals of the editors.The function of the Signpost: to knit the student body closer together in a sirit of cooperation through group action and patriotism; to present detailed information and news concerning all college activities; to promote improvements through honest criticism; to give each student a social voice; to provide an outlet for and to encourage all literary and journalistic attempts in short, to make of Weber college a better place to study. The Signpost has been foreseen as an agency to bring Weber college spirit to the pinnacle of its power. "We seek approval, not patron-aage."The present staff is only a temporary one, producing only the first issue. If present plans are carried out, the paper will be issued Wednesdaily and will be handled principally as a product of the journalism class, with exceptional talent to be drawn from the student body at large. The size will be enlarged as soon as the advertising staff becomes active. All students interested in publications should make application to the publications committee or to any member of the English department for staff positions on either the Signpost or the Acorn, the year book. Applications should include: name, class, experience and qualifications, type of position desired, and recommendations. Applications should be made immediately. The activity and enthusiasm shown by prospective students pre-season events has been exceptional. Under the capable management of Pat Quinn and Bob Polidor, student leaders, the manifested spirit has been great. It will be highly commendable if such enthusiasm can be kept up throughout the entire school year. President Dixon's administrative declaration before the faculty that all governmental functions must proceed democratically and that the needs of students and professors should come before all others should be of great interest to students. Dr. Dixon has a knack of saying and doing things in a most pleasing and efficient manner. After having suffered for two years under the restrictions of a narrow table and a couple of folding chairs as sole equipment for publication purposes, the staff offices now boast two new cabinets, a new table and several more substantial chairs. Whoopee! something to work with! Let's go to press. A significant stride toward Weber college development is the $146,000 P.W.A. grant for construction of a mechanics arts building. Dr. Leland H. Creer, former president of Weber college, Dr. Dixon and all others active in securing the funds for this achievement are to be complimented.ENROLLMENT AND REGISTRATION With many students registering Monday, September 27, enrollment figures surpassed those of last year, with approximately three hundred-fifty freshmen and two hundred sophomores enrolled, Mrs. Clarisse M. Hall, registrar, announces. With a great many prospective students completing their registration at the present time, the total enrollment is expected to surpass that of any recent year. The business department is rapidly fiilling up, business students outnumbering those of any other department, Mrs. Hall said. Pencil? ion Can Get Most Everything At Trie College Book Store FRESHMEN CAPS Attention all frosh men. You are expected to purchase and wear the purple and white frosh cap, known as "the dink." Freshmen women should wear the purple and white ribbon These articles have been obtained at some expense to the student body and must be purchased or the student body fund will sustain a loss that would be detrimental to further school activity. If you do not care to don these articles, you will be subject to a hazing and will not be considered as a loyal member of the freshman class. The "dink" and ribbon will be worn until the sophomore outing to be held some time during the autumn quarter. SOPHS HAVE TOUGH TIME REGISTERING Helping each other up after skidding on some grapes, thoughtfully left on the steps of the gymnasium of our alma mater, commenting that it was too bad that there weren't any of those clever Central imps to ask us to do it over again, my friend and I flipped the coin to see who would open the door for the other. He won the toss, and when I was half way through the door, I caught a whiff of "Amour, Toujours Amour" and found myself flat on my back with a cute little thing with a ribbon in her hair perched triumphantly on my chest insisting that I did it on purpose. I replied that I hadn't had much practice, but I could surely do it better next time. She retorted saucily that a big clumsy sophomore like me could not be expected to have any manners. Having finally decided to get off me, she snorted furiously while I piled her books back into her shapely arms and with a deep bow opened the door for her. She walked out, looked back at me, snorted, skidded on the grapes, and fell flat on her face. The whole thing was very funny, and we laughed. Looking around, we saw three freshmen who looked even funnier under a strong light, evidently wondering what the score was. All three frosh had their catalogues open to the wrong page. One seemed to be reading all about college chemistry a set of courses dealing, so I've been told, with atomic theory, structure of the atom, valence, molar solutions, quantitative analysis, etc. The other fellows were interested, it seemed, in physics and engineering. I wanted to let them in on the secret of drifting through college, but the fresh young things said something about winter coming, and that they were, going to college to learn something that would do them some good later on in life. We decided that all freshmen were alike, and decided to have a little talk with the dean to see if he was rushed enough to o k the classes we had chosen with no little display of genius. We should have known better. The dean is either too foxy, or else he wasn't rushed enough, as wc had to submit to a lecture on the folly of choosing courses that would do us no good. STUDENTS SPEND INTERESTING SUMMERS "Hello there, Leon! Gee, it's neat seeing you again Watcha been doin' all summer . . . Ya have ... no fooling . . . surveying for the government up around Brigham? How come . . . That's plenty O.K. Worked in the can, too ? What can . . . Honest? Gee whiz! What do ya know : that Jim Renell was a tutor for a California lad . . . Not our Jim! Heavens, wonders never cease. And that Bob Askew turned hermit out on the road gang for the government . . . Oh, well Aurline'll fix that up. I know a choice bit of news to : Wayne Bundy has been running down to Salt Lake to make transcriptions for radio. He's one of the dramatic stars of 1999 honest - to - gosh ! Heard that Pete Redfield worked in Idaho Falls all summer and now wants to move up wonder why . . . Hey, I never said anything. What's that? You don't mean that Janet Wilcox, Margaret Schott, and Marj Glines were drawing salaries at West Yellowstone? That's a plenty wild town, or so I've heard. Fellows up there are swell though was it from them they drew or spent salaries? Sorry didn't mean anything. What else is news? Jim Andrews is still announcing for KLO. He's bound to go places. No fooling, he's really got what it takes. Shirley Turnquist is one of the regular girls at Kress's now . . . She's a regular girl anyhow . . . whoops, guess I'm slipping.Max McEwan's been working for his clad at the Weber Floral shop besides giving the girls a break ... or should I say the girl. Ruth Greenwell and Minnie Purdy, a new freshman, have been working down at Shupes' and like it fine . . . only they claim it's too hard to refrain from eating. . . . Kathleen Painter spent part of the summer as Dr. Nelson's office nurse . . . kind of nice don't you think so? Helen Abbott spent a nice pleasant summer shooting bears, but caught a lot more wildcats instead. Velma Hunter clerked at Pen-ney's and came to the conclusion that women don't know how to shop. Delmar Young gave the vegetable kingdom a break at some food store. And do you know Dorothy Dixon (Dot), a new sophomore girl ... if you don't you will later. Well, she worked at the Carnegie Free Library and is practically a walking encyclopedia now. Ellen Miner learned how to serve food behind Woolworth's lunch counter . . . and Ruth Skel-ton struggled along at Kress's. Hey, you don't have to go, do you . . . heck . . . I've just got started. Oh, well, it's been neat seeing you even for a minute. Will see you again at school where we can find out first hand what everyone's been doing all summer. So long |