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Show 2A Sign-off Tuesday, May 22, 1984 Have Another Look at the Year T5 ! fx Donna Layton photoHurt Cley This is the first end-of-the year issue the Signpost has ever produced. It was a massive job to pull together the bits and pieces of the year's news, activities and sports stories. My purpose was to give you a keepsake edition that you may re-read years from now to remind you of what happened during the 1983-84 school year. I chose only four national news stories from among the wide selection of important news. I hope the political cartoons will help to jog your memory of national issues. The issue is printed on a thicker, more durable paper than the regualr Signpost pages. It will not yellow and become brittle as soon as newspaper does. Weber's office of Admission and School Services will distribute 1,000 copies of this to high school seniors around Utah, to help recruiting efforts. We printed 7,000 copies of this special edition. Weber State has not published a yearbook since 1982 because the demand for and sales of the yearbook declined. We hope this edition will fill that void for you. It was financed through the Signpost budget (a portion of your student fees funds the Signpost) and through advertising appearing inside. Please support our advertisersl The yearbook was called Acom, the Literary Magazine is named Metaphor and Weber Studies is the newest publication on campus. Since this will be an annual publication it too needed a name. I must thank Joyce Stahle, wife of Signpost advisor Larry Stahle, for thinking of the name Sign-off. It is a fitting reference to Signature and Signpost, and is a broadcast term for the end of the show. Looking over my lay-out pages, I realize many events and stories are not included. I regret not including every club, every discipline on campus, every student or faculty member who distinguished herself or himself. There are many who certainly deserved to be included but were not due to space limitations. Anything that happens after May 22 will also obviously not be included, such as the wrap-up of spring sports, the Crystal Crest awards ceremony and graduation. These events will be covered in the Signpost. I spent hours digging through piles of photographs. This edition is predominately photos because I believe a good picture is sometimes more interesting than a dozen words. I appreciate the talent and creativity of the Signpost photographers. Their work is sometimes un-sung, so 1 am singing praise for them now. Thanks guys. The rest of the Signpost staff is just as hard-working and professional. I really appreciate their help and advice on Sign-off, and especially thank Ken Hill and Pauline McReavy in the production department. Their attention to detail is outstanding. Thanks also to Colleen and Joan, fine friends and competent editors. Let us know what you think of the first edition of Sign-off. Donna Layton Sign-off editor Convocations, a weekly series of guest lectures, was kicked off this year with Ralph McQeehee, a retired CIA agent, on October 6, 1983. The convocations are sponsored by the ASWSC for the students of Weber State College. Most of the convocations were planned in conjunction with school weeks such as Handicap Awareness Week and Humanities Week." Some guest speakers such as Carl Bernstein were unable to attend the lectures but were promptly rescheduled when possible. Convocations for the 1983-84 school year went as follows: Ralph McQeehee October 6, 1983 George Plimpton October 19, 1983 Orchesis November 3, 1983 Roger Crawford November 10, 1983 Fred Storaska Movember 17, 1983 Carl Bernstein January 12, 1984 Warren Miller January 19, 1984 Henry Marsh February 2, 1984 Andrea Hart April 12, 1984 Jim Hansen April 13, 1984 Dr. Clifford Snyder April 19, 1984 Mark Eubank April 24, 1984 Elder Ezra Taft Benson May 1, 1984 Shelly Thomas May 17, 1984 Weber State Student Demographics (as of fall quarter) Total number of students: male students female students resident students non-resident largest age group total number of freshmen total number of sophomores total number of juniors 10,314 5,689 4,625 9,655 659 25-29 years old 4,232 2,003 1,471 total number of seniors 1,764 Wumber of students enrolled in specific schools: School of Allied Health Sciences School of Business and Economics School of Education School of Humanities School of natural Sciences School of Social Sciences School of Technology General Studies Graduate students 1,323 1,435 878 692 516 705 2,428 2,245 92 |