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Show A4 Signpost Wednesday, June 2, 1983 EdiTORiAl 82-83 has been good by Lisa Wright Editor-in-Chief Without realizing it, the school year is nearly over and another class will be graduating from Weber State College in just a little over a week. WSC and its students have been through quite a year and if taken as a whole, it has been a positive one. The campus is growing, as is evident by the need for new buildings. The Wattis Business Building is nearly completed, and after a lot of work on the part of college administrators, the state legislature approved funding for the allied health building. The building will not be constructed for a couple of years, but at least the major hurdle of the legislature has been overcome. The Weber State Athletic department has excelled this year. Four Big Sky titles were captured, as well as the Big Sky All-Sports Trophy. The women's basketball team took second place in the Mountain West Athletic Conference and went on to take fourth in the NIT. There have been controversies on the campus involving ASWSC election procedures, budget hearings, the Landers Sisters, etc. But if controversy is handled correctly, it is good for an academic institution. Controversy encourages participation, thinking and investigation. The Miss Weber State Pageant met its demise this year, but a new tradition, the Crystal Crest Awards Program, has been instituted. Hopefully it will be benificial to all of those associated with Weber State. The Signpost would like to congratulate all of the graduating students and wish them luck with careers, continued schooling or what ever the future may bring. I, along with this year's staff, would also like to thank Editor-in-Chief Steve Largent for the many long and hard hours that he has spent working at the Signpost. Under his leadership the paper has seen tremendous improvement both editorially and graphically. We will miss him at the Signpost next year. We also would like to wish the best to the other staff members of the paper that will be graduating along with Steve: Therese Nelson, Rodney Wright, T.J. Byrd, Joan Calvert and Carole Forslin, Joe Brady and Ron Davis. Finally we want to thank the Signpost advisor Larry Stahle for his help and guidance in learning the "ropes" of the newspaper business, and for the personal concern he shows to each person on the staff. For those ot you who will be staying around next year, we hope to get your input and involvement '- on the issues that will be facing the students of Weber State next year. Have a great summer and we'll see you next fall. WH3T IS THIS SYnDrome OF DSFeaT poGGino me? -V4 j'fl If The Signpost would like to thank all of the people who contributedletters-to-the-editor this year. Input from a newspaper's readers is helpful to the editorial staff as well as it is interesting to other readers. We hope to hear from you next year as well! L0RP, THE COURT HAS TAKEN AWAY OUR ALL-WHITE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL'S TAX EXEMPT STATUS., WHAT SHOULD WE DO? Letters... The human existance? To the Editor: The control people don't naturally possess over their preferred choice of racial existence has always consisted a numbered disturbance to my will to be a part of history itself. Different fallacies arising from academic calculations of different chemistries of the racial conglomerates of the universe in effect parlays the different social, anti-social problems that inflict mankind universally today. The recindience of many greats as in Hitler shows how fast civilization can be barbarized. The aptly acquired knowledge from inspried higher institutions has in effect given a totally new insight on the relationship that abounds within persistant human colonies that perspire to overdub their supremacy over anybody else, distant as the foe may seem to be. "The history of all society so far is a history of class struggle," Hitler said. But all events in the Western hemisphere dauntedly are merely a manifestation of the self-preservation drive of the human races. The plausible ambition for a king size achievement; the verse of a ridiculed human anthropology does in effect increase the greed for a larger portion of the human resoruces inferen-tially religion, race, wealth and a vast supply of power. The untouched selfish struggle for such immaterial estimations has driven the global state into a pervasive turning point where unknown forces seem to be acting in favor of destructing mankind. Resoundingly, the power to regard all people as one cannot be collectively effected, unfetter-ingly adversely affects it not destroys us. The freedom to a mormon, a moslem, a Nazi and inadvertently a black, does restrict you such freedom. If you are foolish enough to accept the modern definition of freedom as the absence of restraints, communism in a pathetic relativity should come to stay. There's been a widespread impulse to explain the reason why uninhibited I y w' freedom should come to stay despite its decadence, but pathetic human philosophies, the thirst to belong to that set of classified human species with obligation to race and wealth is a shortsighted satire by the human race, a false attitude towards none. The inciteful being that life is a trail of false hopes, despite who thinks he has come up tops! Again, what has this world come to be? Safer dead? Chizoba Madueke WSC Student Unfair teaching practices To the Editor: As foreign students attending Weber State College, we feel we have been discriminated against. We refer to the course taught by Dr. Salmond, "T.V. Theory and Service Procedure," Winter Quarter. After the class had been in session for some time, Dr. Salmond administered a placement test just to the foreign students in the class. The test results were supposedly going to be shown to each individual, allowing the students to decide if they were ready for the material the class was to cover. The students would be free at this time to continue with the class, or to drop the class, depending on their own personal evaluations of test scores. Unfortunately, the test scores were never shown to the students. Dr. Salmond's amiable personality and misleading reassurances to us that our test and quiz results would have only a small effect on our grades led us to believe we would earn high marks, since lecture and lab attendance was what he stressed the most. Our attendance was unmatched. Dr. Salmond was repeatedly lax in his statements of the materials that the tests and quizzes were to cover, and he never gave any indication as to when they would be given. We were never told results of examinations. Dr. Salmond failed to give help to the foreign students, his careless attitude reflecting his prejudice. As a result, ninety percent of the foreign students received D's and E's for the course. We are bright and ambitious individuals. If we weren't, we wouldn't be studying here in the first place. We reserve our right to be treated fairly without discrimination on the basis of our nationality, as the Weber State College code states. Considering the great amount of money applied toward our educations, we have no desire to retake a course such as this under the same instructor. Foreign Students, Alamri Sagr, Tarek Sheghewi, Saleh CalRimeh, Mohamed Bzeek, Ahmed M. Kebir, Almarghali Ali, Garni Salem, Tom Ly, Fahad Almednah Sadder, bud weiser To the Editor: A year ago fall quarter, G. Gordon Liddy told us how unrepentant he was for crimes against society. It cost us $3,500 or $5 per head to hear his diatribe. This year for $2,000, we heard John Dean state how repentant he was for crimes against society. (Interesting, isn't it, that it cost more to parade one's unrepen-tance and be proud of it, than feeling sorry for an enormous Watergate botch job?) Next year it is understood that Maharaja Charisma will come. For exactly $8,706.83 the Maharaja wijl teach us to overcome avarice and greed. While the Signpost editor wondered about what the city would do if the Budweiser Company came: They did a few years ago. Here's what happened when Budweiser wanted to erect large beer signs at the ends of town: The mayor said yea, the council said nay the signs, alas, were not erected. The town was. it seemed, sadder budd weiser about the whole affair. Roger Clark WSC student |