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Show Garbled Sounds and High school students Have you noticed the garbled sounds of the snack bar in the UB during luncheon hours? Not just the sounds of the people dining and talking, but the sounds of the television (blaring out John's true love for Marsha, that Madeline meant nothing to him even though he was seeing Marsha's aunt Nedra when Uncle George was out of town to seek to Mary's out-of-wedlock birth to a twenty pound Urasian fathered by... etc. ad nausiam), the juke box (blaring out Elton John's incomprehensible lyrics) and the overhead Muzak (blaring out Man-tovani's Fifth.) Add to these your own attempt at conversation and you have a new pastime ; figuring out what the heck you just said to yourself. Even the most gentle music in conflict with its own kind becomes a strain on the ear and eventually begins to sound like the top-40 hit of the dav. Music of today is generally excellent. We still have the separated sounds of the Funkle Brothers, Simon and Gar. And the Beatles, who started a number of trends, are still around declaring themselves unBeatles and sounding mostly like they are searching for the sounds they created together but cannot achieve apart. But, despite these situations, the original influences are readily evident in popular music today. You wouldn't know it to enter the UB snack bar. Fortunately the sun is out now, it's spring (with fever week ... another week? ... just around the corner) and we can have the option of sitting on the lawns surrounding our campus. Until Fridays that is. On Fridays we have all kinds of festivals and events which bring a flood of high school students to the WSC campus. Now, the Signpost has nothing against high school students. We might even admit to having been such at one time, but only if pressed. Our objection is to their unruly, unsupervised, unbelievable carryings on. That is, after all, still supposed to be a college campus wherein academic learning is the number one goal (regardless of what you may have heard) . If you are lost by my rambling lack of connection between the brief analysis of popular music and the high school students invading our campus ... observe the Friday invasion by trying to listen to your instructor as high schoolers run up and down the halls ; then walk into the UB snack bar. The coordination of the sounds eminating from the UB snack bar and the 2000 high schoolers crammed into the UB bowling alley, shooting pin ball, have something in common. Both situations are uncontrolled, uncoordinated, and definitely lead to any visitors from other campuses or the community to form unfounded opinions about Weber. Vets have an advocate Editor: In reply to Mr. Noel K. Hall, a veteran enrolled at Weber State College, I would like to say that I agree with him to the extent that the veteran who is trying to attend class, get satisfactory grades and is working towards a final objective perhaps feels harassed. This harassment, however, is being brought about by those veterans who choose to register for classes then seldom, if ever, attend and make little or no effort towards meeting an objective. After one or more quarters these veterans earn nothing but a termination of their valuable G.I. benefits, The Office of Veterans Affairs at Weber State, contrary to Mr. Hall's opinion, works very hard for veterans and their benefits and especially tries to see that everyone gets a fair shake. For those' veterans who are being terminated, their "fair shake" has caught up with them. I am sure all of us taxpayers and honest citizens would agree that we must strive to remove those not willing to work for what they get from the burdens of overtaxed citizens. Please remember the. Office, of Veterans Affairs is the advocate of the veteran. The mandates of Congress come through the Veterans Administration and then through our office for enforcement of .he by George Satter As this is the American bicentennial, I feel that I should contribute something to the celebration. The only problem is everything has been covered. Often many of the projects have been covered twice. I have never in my life seen so many official groups and committees in my life. We have about four official trains, some score of official medals, thousands of official programs, and even a few official revolutionary groups. There is nothing left to do. In fact things are so well covered that I have almost lost track of what we are celebrating. It is a shame that our bicentennial should have to be turned into nothing more than a circus. As the appointed day draws near, the entire situation becomes more and more ludicrous. Each new day brings some new and even more official program or souvenir. It would appear to me that we have created a monster. Even if all the projects and-programs were to be completed, regulations governing veteran's educational benefits. If anyone does not like the regulations they should write their Congressmen and try to get the laws changed our office merely tries to conform to those laws. We invite any veterans who are not being heard to come to our office they may be very surprised in finding out how much help we can give them. Hundreds of veterans on our campus have found such help through our office and have been very satisfied with the help we are able to give them. Marvin J. Peterson Asst. Dean Office of Veteran Affairs Pressure suggested Editor: Last summer before the new student officers gained adequate experience, Good Company was taken from student control and given to Dick Davis. Several important and expensive decisions are pending now and could be slipped over on oost they would for the most part go unattended. I can't help but wonder if the merchants selling the special official souvenirs aren't going to have a large clearance sale at the end of the year. Another problem would appear to be the exact meaning of the word "official." Is it to be the federal government, the state government, the county government, the city government or can I become an official something or the other? It would appear that we have created a con man's paradise. At every bend in the road some new official project seems to be designed merely to separate people from their money. Maybe I just missed some official announcement and the cons are merely a way to remember' that our forefathers were, for the most part, crooks. As things stand right now, I don't know if I can afford much more of this celebration. I'm just about broke from trying to keep up. It's a good thing I won't have to go through this joyous occasion again. It lias been suggested to me us this summer. Pressure should be put on the Executive Council immediately to prohibit decisionmaking until fully-implemented meetings after the opening of fall semester, including budgetary decisions. Cora Peterson Power f rial Editor: This Issue's Week inaugurates the students' control over the program. The lack of the forbidding presence of the sponsor and his wife at the Sky Room jam session after the lectures, finally gave the many students who attended the feel of belonging there. More students came to the after show than have all year and the discussions revealed as much information as the lecture. Many students drank coffee, talked to the speaker they'd paid for, and proved it can happen on Weber's Campus. The new student oriented look also features students personally involved with the duties of escorting the speakers which the Comm VP shares with interested students. This gives more students closer contacts with these men of varied experiences and eliminates the effect of isolating them from us. The improvement is good news for us all. Kathy Christensen that I stop my griping. 1 would like to point out that I am not griping but merely pointing out the way the celebration is going. As the yea- Wears on, I am wearing down. If we are to believe the news media, we will be privileged to have an official revolution this year. A few of the more radical groups have promised us a few first class bombings and killings. I suppose they are doing this to help us celebrate our own American revolution. I think I'll pass that particular attraction for the time being. Well I don't believe that we are really doing anything so terribly different with the bicentennial than we do with any other holiday. The only complaint I have at this time is with the forefathers. It would seem to me that they could have chosen a better season to start a country. It is going to be too hot for much celebrating. Perhaps, we can get congress to change it to October. Or better yet, let's just combine all of our holidays into one huge event. Look at the money I could save. |