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Show 4 Signpost- Friday, May 31, 19So . :: ". :: ' " jpij D- Year of changes for WSC and Signpost by Rae Dawn Olbert Editor-in-Chief This issue marks the last paper of spring quarter. Reviewing the year, there have been many changes at the Signpost, and over the entire campus as well. Many things have been accomplished and many ideas are being defined and implemented. President Brady announced his resignation, sending waves of shock and speculation about his successor throughout the community. Dr. William Rolfe Kerr was named to replace former commissioner of higher education, Arvo Van Alstyne, who passed away. The legislature passed another tuition hike, effective fall quarter, and tacked a one-time surcharge on to help pay for upgrading college libraries. Weber's cable TV station, Channel 9, will now be run by a consortium of Utah schools and housed at the University of Utah. The open hour proposal stirred much controversy across campus. Shortened from two days a week to once a week, next fall will see the implementation of the program. Schools across campus have begun to implement the controversial rollover program, which had many faculty members up in arms just a short time back. NUSAT was launched after years of hard work by students in the Distributive Technology and Manufacturing Engineering Departments. The debate team won the national CEDA debate championship, while sports teams performed well throughout the year. Golf and tennis teams took first place in the Big Sky Conference. The women's tennis team captured the MWAC title, while the Lady Cat golfers won the Small College Golf Championship. Head basketball coach Neil McCarthy left Weber for New Mexico State, while Larry Farmer came up from UCLA to fill his shoes. Larry Linville headlined the list of convo speakers, drawing a record crowd during Festiven-tion activities. Voter turnout was at an all-time high for ASWSC elections, when students voted to elect Todd Anderson, Mike Waldron and Kelly Miles as next year's studentbody officers. Sunfest was rained out, and work on the new Allied Health Building remains on slippery ground. The Signpost has tried to stay on top of these stories and many others, bringing the campus community news coverage of important events and activities. Along with many staff and production changes on the paper came many innovative ideas in the organization of a well-rounded college newspaper. Watch for some of these ideas next fall. The summer edition of the Signpost, pioneered last year, will continue to keep students and faculty involved and informed. The first issue of the summer edition will be distributed on June 25, and every Tuesday after that. W RUSSIANS WDUIPHK0 TO THANK THE TWO G5N6RA15 WHO HAVE THE MOST general pwamics m GENERAL &Cn?! Educational opportunities abound at WSC by Mark Espenschied Managing Editor I hope you realize how fortunate you are to attend Weber State. That may sound quite condescending, but I'm sure there are many transfer students on campus who would concur with my feelings. As I have said before in earlier articles I have written, I attended two other institutions of higher learning before deciding to finish here at Weber. I would like to tell you why I am happy to be here instead of at one of the other schools not far south from here. The top of the list has to be, I am graduating. If I was still at The University of Utah, and especially if I had tried to stay in their journalism department, I would not be able to say that. Instead I would be waiting to get into pre-requisite classes so I could get to my major courses. At the U. they have created a class that they are proud to say is like no other in the United States. It is the Communication Department's initial prerequisite and their weeding out class. This class deals with two main objectives:" to teach basic communication principles, legitimate enough, and also to teach students how to change their thinking to the thinking of one teacher. This may not sound so bad, but if that one teacher does not feel the student can exactly reproduce his thinking in regards to three books the student must interpet, the student is failed. Every budding communication major must pass this class to be accepted in to their field. One sec tion of the class is offered each quarter, with a closed enrollment of about 100. Twice that many are on the waiting list each quarter. ; Here is the point. Over half of the 100 who make it in, fail. In June of 1984, I was one of them. I passed the theories all right, but I couldn't copy the teachers interpetations. Because of this, I was told I could not become a journalist. I transfered to Weber, was encouraged by interested instructors, and became managing editor of the school newspaper. Not bad for a communication flunky. Mnay of my friends are still stuck at the U., I was fortunate enough to get out and learn. I have an acquaintance who has been trying for three years to get accepted into the U of U's Engineering Department. Three years trying for acceptance! Is that an education? I have brought to your attention just two departments at the U who make their students play games. This happens in almost every department at the school, and I am not just talking sour grapes, my sitution was not unique. I did well in all my other communication classes. Educators, students and parents around the state are aware of the problem, but the solution does not seem close at hand. I want to personnally congratulate the faculty, staff and administration of Weber Strate College for providing a convienient commuter school which makes the gaining of a higher education a possitive experience, not a game. Editor-in-Chief Rae Dawn Olbert Publisher Harold Y. Hunker Signpost Advisor Larry Stahle Executive Secretary Karen Erz Managing Editor Mark Espenschied News Editor Betty Edmondson Sports Editor Steve Spafford Asst. Sports Editor Chris Miller Entertainment Editor JaNae Barlow Signature Editor Lynn Soltys Assignments Editor Pam Stoker Senior Reporters Chris Larsen Loretta Park Reporters Mayvonne Wells Mark Hadley Joleen Simmons TedAnn Olsen Matthew Brown Parker Barney Cory Sylvester Don Guthrie Photo Editor Eric Christensen Ad Sales Manager Kevin Carrillo Ad Salespersons Loni Dayton Mike Waterfall Photographers Jeff Bybee Kirk Pugmire Keith Quimby Delivery Rick Weir Bruce Grov Editorial Production Manager Emilie Bean Editorial Staff Brian McCleery Leta Ronayne Advertising Production Manager Mike Nordenstrom Ad Staff Chad Hassell Cartoonist Steve Thorpe The Weber Stale Signpost is published twice weekly during the school year and once a week during the summer. The Signptist is published by the WSC Department of Communications. Editorial comment appearing in this publication is that of the Signpost and not necessarily that of WSC. The Signpost is located in the Union Building, room 267. 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