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Show 4 blCNl'UST - Tuesday, June 20, 1989 TH Ji 1L TRIAL Weber enters the second century By Peter Avion Managing Editor To those of you brave (or foolhardy) enough to be going to school this quarter, I bid you welcome. Welcome to the Second Century at Weber State College. One hundred years is a long time. Current longevity statistics show the average human will live 75 years, or three-quarters of the time that WSC has been in existence. It is likely then to assume most of you will be around for the WSC Sesquicentennial a mere 50 years from now. The college has come a long way in the past 100 years. From its humble beginnings as Weber Academy there have been many changes. And that's good. Change is good. Change means growth, and health, and life. Keeping that in mind, you will find the Signpost itself has changed. For the better, we think. Some of the section names have been changed, not to protect the innocent mind you, but to reflect the changes in the way the paper is being managed and produced. "Opinion" has become "Editorial." "Arts and Entertainment" has become "Etcetera." "Campus Update" has become "On Campus." And finally, our masthead has been through it's chrysalis stage, and has emerged a bit more modem, a bit lighter, to reflect an eyes-loward-the-future ideal which we must now all adopt. The change in the paper's appearance is also significant in that it means a change in the staff. Every year as our seniors graduate we have vacancies in the Signpost staff vacancies which could be filled by any one of you out there. Have you ever done any photography work? Written book, record or movie reviews? Can you draw? How's your spelling and grammar abilities? Want to work with a fun group of people in a pressure-cooker? You do?!? Great! Come on over and well put you to it. But really, working at the Signpost is just one way to make a contribution to Weber's Second Century. There are positions available in student government, social and scholastic clubs, the Greek system, and many other areas on campus where you can make your mark. Weber State College has endured for 100 years, thanks in great part to the undying commitment of the students to keep it alive. Depression-era students often paid tuition in livestock, and while we no longer consider chickens legal tender, the idea is still there without the students who care for this institution, and who choose to get their degrees from Weber State College, one thousand years would not be enough time to keep her alive. There is also one other part of the equation I have yet to mention. As students we are here to learn. Let us not forget who we are learning from. If the students are the heart of WSC, the professors are undoubtedly the soul. So as you start a new quarter, remember, you are also starting a new century a century of tradition, of hope for the future, and a new century of learning. Strive to lead Weber State into a bright Second Century. ...and don't forget the shades. .. AMP FOR WORPWtSHMBMT, M0MM,,RSP$ Keeping up with the changing family is tough By Dennis Hinkamp Editor's note: Dennis Hinkamp is a consumer information writer at Utah State University. As a nation, we haven't been too accurate with predictions. We built battleship-sized cars in the 50s because we were sure gas would be plentiful and cheap. In the mid-70s, we were rationing gas and predicted the price to go up to $5 per gallon by 1985. We are doing just as bad a job predicting changes in the family as we are changes in transportation. According to Dr. Glen Jenson, family and human development specialist in the College of Family Life at Utah State University, we really need something like a "family well-being index" similar to the leading economic indicators or consumer price index. This would help social service agencies and educators head-off the types of problems families encounter. Utah State University recently was host to a teleconference on "Forecasting the Future of America's Families." The idea behind the conference was to get family educators to start thinking the same way corporate America does; that is, to try to recognize emerging trends and try to anticipate problems before they reach a crisis stage. So far we're not doing a very good job, says Dr. Ann Austin, early childhood specialist in the USU College of Family Life. For instance, she says, in the 60s many people were predicting that we would have so much leisure time on our hands that we wouldn't know what to do with it. The opposite has happened. Most people are too busy and feel pressured to keep up. Also, Austin says, the trend of women going into the work force developed much faster than most people expected and we were caught lacking sufficient child care facilities for all the families that needed them. We were caught still debating whether day care was a good thing or not without looking at the reality of what families were already doing in regards to child care, she says. Child care facilities still don't meet the demand, especially in the area of care for infants. Johnson says in addition to the continued influence of women in the work force, futurists are predicting more interracial marriages, continued migration from rural areas to cities and what is termed the "sandwich generation" these are older parents who are spending equal amounts of time caring for their young children and their own aging parents. Letter Policy i nesiGNPosr welcomes let- greater exposition, arrange- ters to the editor. They must be mcnts may be made with the typed and should not exceed 300 editor in chief, words in length. For subjects requiring Letters MUST include name, address, phone number, relationship to WSC (student, family, staff, Ogden resident, etc.) and the signature of the writer. Letters without this information will not be printed. The Signpost reserves the right to edit for reasons of space and libel and reserves the right to refuse to print any letter. The Signpost Editorial-Advertising-Production Summer Quarter, 1989 The Signpost Staff The Weber Stale College Signpost is published every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during fall, winter and spring quarters, and once a week during the summer quarter by the WSC Department of Communication. The Sigspost is distributed free of charge and is available by subscription for S9 per quarter. The Signpost offices arc located in the Union Building in Room 267. Mail correspondence should be sent to: WSC Sicnpost, Weber Stale College, Ogden, Utah 84408-21 10. Editor in Chief 626-7121 Advertising Department 626-6359 News Department 626-7105 Entertainment Department 626-7105 Sports Department .626-7983 Editor in Chief Scott Summerill Managing Editor Peter Avion Photography Editor JillTitensor Advertising Manager Liesel Waymenl Production Manager Brandi Johnson Distribution I JcffBybcc Advisor p. Larry Slahlc Secretary J... Linda McGce Publisher j . . Randolph Scott |
