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Show FROM THE EDITORS' DESK Our Honor Roll Needs Revision The next issue of Signpost will carry a complete list of all honor roll students. This list embraces all students who, during the past quarter have earned a grade point of 2.5 or better. As always, the honor roll will be dominated by students pursuing majors of vocation, cosmotology, music, etc. while there will be but a limited number of physical or life science majors gaining honors. One can hardly question the difficulty of being an honor student while majoring in fields of chemistry, physics, engineering, etc. On the other hand, the relative ease of gaining honors in some of the lighter fields is apparent by the number and caliber of students who are awarded honor certificates for superior work in their respective fields. All Are Important There are, of course, no fields of study offered at Weber College which are insignificant and, thus, all should have representation on the honor roll. The point in question here is, however, if our present method of release and publication of the honor roll is fair to everyone involved. To be specific: is it fair to a chemistry major who earned a 3.0 average to be compared evenly with a vocation major who earned the same grade point? Especially if the- vocationalist was once a chemistry major himself, but could not keep the stride? Forever, there will be the argument that a person with talents in a certain field is as important to society in different ways as a person in any other field and because of this they should be equally rewarded for their talents. Also, nearly every instructor sincerely feels that his field is the basis of all study and all other fields revolve around his. For this reason the political science instructor would object to having his top students receive a lower rating than the A students of physics- Despite these "arguments" it is common knowledge that it takes more grey matter and midnight oil to earn a 3.0 average in physics than in secretarial science or in philosophy than in auto body or in engineering than in cosmotology. Then is it fair to list an honor student in engineering next to an honor student in cosmotology ? Obviously not. Change From High School When students are in high school, taking almost identical courses, the honor rolls contain THE top students. In college, however, the rolls contain top students in respective fields but not all are top students of the entire studentbody as is the case in high school. In college brilliant students compete with other brilliant students; good students compete with other good students; and average students com pete with other average students, then when the grade points lor the fields are tallied the top students of the average fields are given the same credit as those of the most difficult fields of study-As mentioned above, the top students of any field should be given credit for their accomplishment regardless of the relative difficulty of their course of study. What would be fair to everyone involved, however, would be to LIST THE FIELD OF EACH HONOR STUDENT each time the honor roll is published. The present method doesn't give this information and, thus, the honor roll doesn't give a true picture of a student's comparatative scholastic ability. A PROBLEM AT WEBER? Big flames Demand Support After they came a cropper in attempts to line up the rhythm of Woody Herman and his third herd for the "Snowball," Phoenix managed to improve on Wody by hiring June Christy for their Dec. lGth affair. The significance of this lies not in the degree of entertainment engaged but in the boldness of the "sisters" who will either start a precedent or fall flat or their financial faces. Must Sell 500 Tickets It has been estimated that the overall cost for this dance will run between thirteen and fifteen hundred dollars. Figuratively, at the rate of three s;moleons a couple at least five-hundred tickets will have to be sold if Phoenix is to stay in the black-Just how many Weber students can be counted on to attend the Snowball is open to conjecture but on the basis of former dances any amount exceeding two-hundred couples seems improbable. This leaves approximately three-hundred tickets to be sold in and about the Og-den area. Support is Imperitive The obvious drought of big name performers to appear in Ogden and more specifically the White City Ballroom can probably be attributed to one thing . . $$$$. And where there is a lack of cash there is usually "the absence of customers. So the big sweat for Phoenix is getting the townfolk out for the dance. If the Snowball succeeds then the precedent is established and more stars like June Christy, etc., will follow. However, should the dance fall through then Weber is back in the doldrums, perhaps to stay. Damnit Sneezly! The grade still stands. Letter to Editor Dear Editor: Recently, in the course of daily activities and conversations around good old Weber C, words have come upon my ears that sound as if there may be trouble brewing at our dear institution. It seems that there is unnecessary rivalry going on between some of the social clubs. Even the members of the clubs concerned have hinted that there may be trouble with regards to dances and other activities sponsored by clubs. Members of certain clubs are getting worried that another club is going to get more recognition or sponsor a more successful activity than they are. It seems like they're afraid of a littlecompetition- On the other hand, certain clubs feel that they should be the only organization to present the school with a successful event, and they're trying to see to it that the other clubs don't come through with any plans. It seems to me that the time has come for students in a college to be over the silly stage of "Ha, ha, you can't do that. I thought of it first," and the silly notion that a little competition is the end of everything. Competition, if not carried to a point of rivalry, is what makes the world go 'round. Signed: I. M. Disqusted COLLEGE SPECIAL 20 Off ON ENTIRE STOCK OF WOOLENS If You Present This Ad ! 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