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Show ' THE SIGNPOST Friday, May 18, 1990 Opinion Reporter concerned To the editor: May 17, 1990 Realizing there are still five issues of the paper to be produced and end of the year appreciation banquets occurring (including one for The Signpost), I feel the need to express my thanks to those who will not be recognized at "The 1990 Signpost Awards Banquet: In Recognition of Excellence..." Invited staff members and their guests will enjoy a "... select menu and cheerful company in best dress." But, enough about what the invited guests will be experiencing. Let's talk about those who will not invited: those 50 plus students who have dedicated many hours to help create a newspaper. Maybe I am out of line, for I am only a staff reporter and one of the lucky 22 students who were selected to feast at a marvelous buffet, which will include shrimp and sirloin tips, AND TH5 WEEK'S WINNER. OF "ANIOTSFIINNE5I m VIDEOS- n Jill f f Senator expresses gratitude for professor To the editor: May 17, 1990 This letter is in regards to the ASWSC senate passing resolution 90-60 which established this week as Professor Appreciation Week. I commend the senate for recognizing those people who have made this college one of the finest teaching "universities." I would like to offer my thanks to those professors who have changed my life for the good in addition to being sensitive to my needs as a student. Since I have known Dr. Rod Julander, he has never failed to demonstrate the greatest amount of dedication to this campus, education and to Weber State students. He has demonstrated an ability and willingness to expand beyond conventional expectations in an effort to enhance the quality of Weber State student life by his commitments to a demonstrated scholarly excellence, sagacious teaching style, availability to students and high quality interaction with students. For example, I can still remember walking into the social science building in 1986, feeling very much like my children do upon entering but I am strongly upset that the guest list contains only three staff members not getting paid for the work they do for the newspaper no matter how many hours they have put into a story. It seems only fair that people on staff-excuse me, we are officially called and referred to as Communication 289 students-be invited to a banquet that honors those who work on the Weber State College student run newspaper, especially when you consider the fact that the editor in chiefs, managing editor's, advertising manager's and production manager's parents are invited. Did I mention that invited guests are allowed to bring a guest and that revenue generated from The Signpost's advertising funds are paying for the entire event? The editor in chief said that a reason for not having everyone rm-rrrmrr-i (2) Realty fclks, kindergarten for the first time. I mean I was scared. Here was a class of sixty students, really sixty youngsters. And to make matters worse, here was a professor who was a democrat. I was a died in the wool republican. What was I to do? Here I was a freshman, related by marriage to Aaron W. Tracy, a former president of this institution from 1922 to 1935 and just wanting to do nothing but get through school not on your life. As you can probably deduce at this point I continued. As I continued to go to class I felt wonderful. Here I was twenty six years old and I could think, I was beginning to learn. But what made this class so special. What made my first experience so great? It was Rod Julander. Dr. Julander approached me one day early in the quarter and asked me if I was interested in an internship to Washington D.C. to work with Senator Gam. Boy was L But alas, I was only a freshman. I had to wait another year. Upon finding out my class status, he sat me down in his office and inquired of my educational plans. I had none ;all I knew is that I wanted to finish school and work. I wanted to be happy. After all, everyone I knew with Signpost banquet come, as in prior years, is because of cost and room. It wasn't my decision to serve a menu that costs $9.50 per plate or to hold it in the Skyroom. Enough bitching, let's get to the reason for this letter, which is to tell those students who have worked on The Signpost that they are appreciated, although they might not be deserving of an award in the eyes of the guest list committee. I think wethey are the best and greatly under-appreciated and will never know how much management believes we are doing a great job. Granted, I am just a student in Communication 289, but I want my fellow class mates, and the rest of those on campus to know how thankful I am for all your hard work. Julie Bannister Donna Green that had a college degree was happy. However, Dr. Julander then expounded upon upon all things that made up an education. He told me to enroll in the honors program, and get involved in student government. This meeting changed my life. I would never be the same. Thus my involvement with Weber and student government was begun. He has also done this for several hundred other students. It is these qualities that make him one of the most sought after professors in the political science department. As I have continued to fight my medical problems, Rod has continued to stand by me. When I was battling cancer and embarrassed of my baldness, Rod made sure that I finished my classes by going out of his way to make very special arrangements for my taking his tests. While another teacher in the political science department strongly encouraged me to drop out of school, he bent over backwards to help me feel good as a student but more importantly, to feel good as a human being. By encouraging me to continue my education, he also helped me take my mind off of the pain of cancer. Recently, I underwent major Kathleen Montoya Brad Rhead Dean Skaff Justin Scott Robert Burrows Colleen Gardner Troy Herzog Bryan Paul Kathryn Salzl Kurtis Spackman Scott Summerill Greg Michelsen Gina Carbajal Mike Johnson Paula Wright Godfrey Akpan Larry Richardson I am sorry if I have left anyone off this list and also apologize for those to whom I may have incorrectly given credit. Christine Rasmussen WSC student Where'rethe bins ?' asks WSC student To the editor: The best kept secret on campus is where the recycling bins are located - - the recycling bins that we were told would be placed on the campus of Weber State. Has anyone seen them? They are either very small or else not on campus at ail-maybe up in the mountains? Many people here on campus have asked me where the bins are located, so I feel there is sufficient want to recycle-after all the hoopla that surrounded earth week, I feel quite curious as to what the plan is. Maybe the bins have been recycled? I felt really good about the recycling program that was to begin at Weber, and now I feel like perhaps the whole plan is quietly disappearing. It was too big of an announcement to just let it slip away now. So ask your friends, neighbors, and faculty members where the new recycling bins are. We would all like to know. Daniel Lewis Jones WSC student surgery involving a chest operation where I had a nerve removed. Rod again came through by offering my wife, for the second time, the courtesy of having her stay at his residence while I was in the hospital. This again proved his kindness and his deep love and concern for his students. In fact, my wife is now a full-time student at Weber State. This, too, is her first quarter and her first experience with Weber State faculty. She has also felt that same love and concern for his students and their understanding of the subject matter. I guess once a master teacher, always a master teacher. Through all of his many goals and civic activities, Rod has continuously placed the needs of the students above all else. There are countless other examples which I could relate; however, all experiences are the same, but it would only be the names that are different. So hats off to the many great professors on our campus and thanks for all your many contributions to our lives! Melvin R. Feller ASWSC Senator |