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Show Offers Ideas For Improvement Pres. Brady Addresses Signpost Staff by Steve Fifield Staff Reporter Last week President Brady visited the Signpost to get a first-hand look at the staff and their duties. Brady said of his high school and college days, "I was very much involved in the same type of activities that you are here (at the Signpost) ... I don't think there was any activity that could compete with my involvement in this type of activity." Brady said that working on college publications was as much a learning experience as "many, many hours of class work." Brady said that the Signpost, "is clearly a 'class' publication." He said, "There is still room for improvement. There are still more contacts and access to people you could have to cover more stories. . . . You can improve the quality of this institution if you can take both the pro's and con's of issues." When asked what type of stories he felt the Signpost should cover for next year, Brady said, ". . . subjects that are of greatest interest to students, worthwhile subjects (should be covered). There shouldn't deal with just campus life, student's unique interests should be covered too." When asked his formulia for success Brady said that there are essentially three qualities necessary for success. He said that he surrounds himself with people who have integrity, who can communicate well and who have human relations skills. Brady said that other successful, integrity-type qualities include honesty, trustworthiness and consistency. He said that the communication skills of a good leader include good listening, speaking, reading and writing. He said that successful people have skills that enable them to deal effectively with people. plIl f o lrTCv 1 I 1 lllV?' i III I ILafc 'a&. i u 'W.taawiJ fcMMM lirmmirwn wmt 1 ' Signpost photoGrove Pashley President Rodney H. Brady visited the Signpost last Thursday to meet the staff and offer some suggestions for improving the paper. He is shown here speaking with (left to right) Ken Hill, production manager; Colleen Mewing, editor-in-chief; Kevin Carrillo, business manager; and Larry Stahle, Signpost advisor; Humanities Forum Features Anchorwoman Shelly Thomas, anchor woman for KSL television news, will speak at Weber State College, May 17, at noon as part of the college's Humanities Week. Ms. Thomas has become Utah's most watched woman anchor since joining KSL-TV in 1978. Prior to working at channel 5, she held a number of positions at KCPX-TV (now ITVX). In addition to her responsibilities as the station's 6 p.m. co-anchor, Mrs. Thomas is a reporter for the Letters . . . Policemen Should Have To Pay For Parking Spots To the Editor: I am certain that you and others are tired of complaints concerning parking on campus, but there is a very bothersome parking problem of free parking for certain students. I have been walking to and from my car to the social science building this quarter and I walk through the A parking lot located west of the building. As I have walked by, one South Ogden police car and two Utah Highway Patrol cars are usually parked in that lot. I wonder why with no parking stickers on these cars that they never receive a ticket for their violations as other cars around them do? Don't city and state employees have to buy a sticker? Don't Weber State College employees have to buy a sticker to park there? Why do these students park for free? One of the officers is in my 10 a.m. psychology class, and I have seen another officer carrying books as if he were a student here and leaving the parking lot ten minutes after classes are over. I came from working at the library here one night last week to find a ticket on my car for not parking in a marked stall, and I can almost understand this and I will pay the fine. As an employee, and a student, here I feel that the students who drive police cars should buy and display a sticker or receive a ticket for violations as anyone else would, or I will believe that discrimination is practiced here at Weber. Dal R. Twitchell Eyewitness News and the news magazine program, Prime Time Access. She has won many awards for her newsreporting, including a first place award from Sigma Delta Chi, the society of professional journalists, for her news series "Twelve Burning Questions." She is also the recipient of the National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Award. A Salt Lake City native, Mrs. Thomas graduated cum laude from the University of Utah with a degree in musicology. She is married to Samuel M. Williams and has two sons. The convocation will begin at noon in the Austad Auditorium . Get Ready Tor Summer Order your LOWE Backpack today at our low campus discounts. We need at least $500 worth of orders to fill the minimum. .ui or c a Warrh fnr rhp .ss . "Lowe" order rhprmnmprpr n WILDERNI the Union we ALPINE SYSTEMS f WEBER x STATE COLIECE RECREATION , CENTER J Signpost -Tuesday, May 15, 1984 5 "Geography" a , 2 I conl a. from page 2. ambassadoral appointees could not find on a map of South America the country to which he had been appointed. He also did not know what the language of the country was, much less did he speak it. Dr. Woodring cites his own experience during World War II when he was shipped out of San Francisco for an unnamed destination, which later turned out to be New Guinea. When he and the other officers on board the ship opened their orders, not one of them knew where New Guinea was even though most of them had their master's or Ph.D degrees. Some thought it was in Africa, but since they were already sailing in a southwesterly direction some thought it was in South America. As it turns out, New Guinea (in the Pacific, north of Australia) is the second largest island in the world and if it were superimposed on the United States it would stretch from San Francisco to Kansas City. Many of Dr. Woodring's colleagues died on New Guinea, an island that most of them hadn't even learned about in college. Today, when Americans are citizens of the world's leading power, it seems ironic that they are not even equipped to decide on the most basic foreign policy issues. Their lack of basic geographical knowledge alone makes intelligent decisions on foreign policy matters difficult. In times past, teachers were prepared for the teaching of geography. Today, it is possible in many states to be certified to teach all subjects through eighth grade without having taken a single course in geography. There really is no valid reason for this neglect. In these days of getting back to the basics, it would seem that geography is a good place to start. LIL BO PEEP 3480 Wash. 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