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Show Page 2 THE SIGNPOST May 12, 1967 emu 1 pinion - v ( M Pi r i I NO I i LEFT TURN ft Chrony Staff Is Wrong Why was a non-member of the present University of Utah. Daily Chronicle staff chosen by that school's publications board as editor of the newspaper for next year? Ralph Mabey was chosen because the board felt he was the most qualified to represent them as editor of the college newspaper.His experience is slight, to say the least, but his willingness and ambitions cannot be overlooked. Just because a person has worked on a newspaper staff for three years does not mean that he is an editor. This was surely shown by this year's editor of the Signpost. Ryan Rees was sports editor on the Signpost briefly when a freshman, other than that he was in the Signpost office maybe four times. He was selected editor by the Weber State Publications Board because the board felt he was the best qualified to represent them as editor. Staff resignations followed on the Signpost, mainly for the same reasons as the Chronicle staff have stated. Fortunately, the staff did not display a childish temperment and cease publication of the paper. They didn't have a chance. The new editor, Rees, walked in and took over the paper immediately. This is what Mabey should have done at the University of Utah. An interim editor should not have been chosen, but the newly chosen editor given the position immediately. If experience is so valuable to the editor of the Chronicle, every day should help. The administration at the University of Utah has shown a great degree of indecision in allowing the students to control the situation regarding who is in control of the newspaper. As long as student funds pay for the newspaper, the administration or students should say what is published in it An editor is chosen in good faith that he will publish what the students and administration want This is not to say that they can walk in and demand what be printed, but rather act as a conscience to the editor. There is a two way trust agreement that must be maintained if good relations and communications are to be achieved on a college campus. Name-calling, striking, boycotting, ceasing publication and other stunts are not condusive to this good raport The University of Utah has received a black eye from all the poor publicity that was allowed to be generated by the striking staff members. By allowing the students to use the local press to demand that the administration do things or have the chosen editor resign, is not very intelligent even for the premier university in the state, or so it was thought to be. Weber State College may be only a college and a small one at that in some person's eyes, but it is not sitting back and watching the world go by as some think. The administration is very much concerned about its students and how they are treated on the campus while here. It strives to provide as many diverse extra-curricular activities as possible. There is no censorship of the press here, nor should there ever be. There cannot be censorship because the administration is concerned about what is going on. It is not about to allow such a display take place with the students controlling the show. To borrow a term from the Chronicle that is a panacea when their inexperienced staff members can think of nothing else to say, we say, '"kudos' to our administration and to hell with the striking members of the Chronicle staff." Budgets Begin Again It is budget hearing time again. The weeping and wailing has begun. Already some departments are crying because other departments have received more money than they. The same problem of "me first" instead of striving for the betterment of the entire school, has crept in. The budget hearings are being handled differently this year, but we aren't sure it's any better. Once again, we encourage that the budgets be judged as objectively as possible and a degree of need by the department be established before the budgets are approved. This guideline should be followed in all the budget appropriations.The budgets are not an easy thing to decide and should not be rushed through with subjective considerations. RIGHT TURN ONLY 1 You'd th drivers ink one sign would be enough, but even with two posted warnings not to make a left turn, some just can't read the signs. The signs are posted on 3850 S. which is an entrance lane only. LETTERS TO THE Editor, Signpost: I was shocked and amused at the so-called debate held last Friday in the Fine Arts Building. Mans' evolution could not be seriously debated elsewhere in the country on the college level. (With the possible exception of Bob Jones University). To have such a debate on this campus was degrading and preposterous. Evolution is fact. People have told me that Professor Nibly is an intelligent man because he knows so many languages. He may know languages but where was his logic? It must have taken him some real intellectual gymnastics to come to the conclusions he did with the evidence presented. His main arguments were that science was authoritarian rnd science has contributed nothing definite to human knowledge. How could he really believe this and be an educator. This is contradictory to everything education stands for. He denies everything that has brought man from the horse and buggy. He denies everything that has brought man from the cave, (not to mention the tree.) Progress brought by science is too evident for anyone to dismiss as fallacy. This hopeless sceptic was even more laughable when he called science authoritarian. Science is based on evidence, collected data, verification and reason. Scientific concepts change as new evidence is discovered. This is not authoritarian. The point of view that the BYU prof was speaking from is authoritarian. Religion is based on higher authority and the religious person should not question. That is authoritarianism.As Dr. Olson pointed out, it is mpre valuable to have all knowledge at one disposal than just that which lies between the covers of one or two books. Dell Isham Nomination Form For Awards And Honors Evening CATEGORY FOR NOMINATION PERSON TO BE NOMINATED U4V' i A)- i L- jL.Li Editor, Signpost: In your article last Friday regarding new faculty assignments for next year, you had referred to me as "Dr. " Huish. I regret to have to inform you that is is in error since I do not have a doctor's degree, and should not be credited with such. I would appreciate it if you would rectify for me this error in the next issue of the Signpost. H. Paul Huish, Div. of Math Editor, Signpost: If the truth were known, the shining white knight, Harris Vincent, who appeared as the guiding savior of the Utah Chronicle this week, would be labeled an "underground spy." Weber State delegates to the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Assoc. Convention two weeks ago said that Harris, at that time, was confident that he would be selected as the new Chrony editor. "It is just a meer matter of formality," he said, "there is no one comparable on the University campus." Other Chronicle staffers, including the infamous Paul S. Taylor, voiced a similar opinion regarding Harris's "shoe-in" for 1967-68 editor. "He can't possibly lose," was one candid remark, but apparently the University of Utah Publications Council thought differently. The selection of Ralph Mabey was not only disgusting to the staff, but also embarrassing. After confidently predicting to the other Utah schools of Harris' victory, it was a little hard to explain just why he was by-passed. Now Taylor and his cohorts, still housed in the Chronicle office, have started their own "off-campus," newspaper entitled "The Voice" and have taken to staging noon demonstrations on the Union Building quad. All smooth tactics have been set I EDITOR aside and the point is quite clear that they want Mabey out of the office. Yet amidst all the screaming and hollering, Vincent remains, if you please, humble and calm. He is facing his "moral obligation" to the college while letting his ex-communicated editor, Taylor, take the full brunt. Taylor may very well succeed in ousting Mabey, and if he does, Vincent will step into the position, smiling, and clean of the battle. Pam Stevenson I FRIDAY, MAY 12 8 p.m. "Henry IV" Little Theatre 8 p.m. "Ogden Chorale Concert FAC Auditorium 9 p.m. Student body Dance "Is is Spring" in UB Cafeteria SATURDAY, MAY 13 8 a.m. ACT Entrance Exam FAC ' 451 & 453 7 p.m. SEA Awards Banquet Canton Cafe 7:30 Banquet for Retiring Faculty Member - UB Cafeteria 8 p.m. Ogden Chorale Concert FAC Auditorium MONDAY ,MAY 15 Rodeo Club Western WeekMay 15-20 TUESDAY, MAY 16 8 p.m. Voce Coeds Recital Little Theatre WEDNESDAY, MAY 17 8 p.m. David O. McKay Hospital Benefit Concert - FAC AuditoriumTHURSDAY MAY 18 Purple Paw Banquet (ForCom-mittees Only) - UB Cafeteri? Published weekly by the Associated Students of Weber State College Editor .... Carol Deegan Editorial Asst Nayr Seer Campus Editor ... Joe S. Wright Feature Editor. Fashion Editor Sports Editor. . . .LeAnn Painter . . . Lucy Lusty . 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