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Show Wednesday, May 3, 1995 Volume 57 Number 78 Waiting for a pro -motion L i i 4 e se;.-'wK"",. i. .'vKM'HWfcih,. 4 i. i - t . i i ,. . ' U 1) RYAN SHUPETHE SIGNPOST Mindy Rose (left) and RaNae Candia wait for the music to start before performing their routine at the Pro-Motion Dancers' tryouts at the Dee Events Center Friday night. Rose and Candia both made the squad for the upcoming year. Service reminds WSU WSU students blind of death camp victims to challenaes faced By Taylor S. Fielding Signpost asst. news editor The horrors of Hitler's "Final Solution" were remembered at a Nazi death camp memorial service held at the Weber State University Alumni Center on April 28. Sam Zeveloff, a professor in the zoology department at WSU, said he decided to organize the event after visiting the Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C. this past summer. The event was held to commemorate the liberation of concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Dachau. "In a time when our society and those throughout the world face an increasing intolerance and violence, I hope there are lessons that we can learn from the murder of the 6 million Jews and the 3 million members of other minorities," Zeveloff said. WSU President Paul H. Thompson said the holocaust is evidence that there was arid is evil in the world. "It's important that we look back at the Holocaust and the death camps and see what we can learn," Thompson said. "If we were to forget such things, we run a greater risk of a recurrence of those kinds of events and those kinds of atrocities." The keynote speaker at the event was Rabbi Frederick L. Wenger from the Salt Lake Jewish congregation Kol Ami. "By having a memorial to the martyrs of the Holocaust, it expresses a commitment on the part of the people of the United States of America," Wenger said. "A commitment to help prevent those sad events which led to the Nazi Holocaust, from ever happening again so that World War II and our other struggles were not in vain. The Nazi spirit is still alive among us. "Let us remember that before the 'Final Solution,' before the gas chambers, there were ages of European life during which Jews were progressively dehumanized," Wenger said. "From the Romans to the early fathers of Christianity, to the great inquisitors of the Middle Ages, to the racists of the nineteenth century, and to Hitler and the 'Final Solution,' there is an unbroken chain of dehumanization in which Europe was led to see the Jews not as human beings, butan insidious evil force," he said. "Hitler and the Third Reich were the end cry, not the beginning of the Holocaust," Wenger added. The most grotesque and horrible witness to the Holocaust is not the still photographs of piles of bodies or barbed-wire fences, but the fact that human beings committed such atrocities against See Service page 2 L iisuaiiy impai By Amie Wall Signpost staff writer Weber State University students may see blind students on campus nearly everyday. According to one blind WSU student, most do so without realizing what it might be like to attend college without the benefit of sight. Cindi Vega, a blind student at WSU, says that the disabled can accomplish anything they wish. Modern technology has made it easier for them to be successful at school and in the workplace. They can use specialized equipment and techniques to be productive in their chosen fields. A big part of Vega's success and mobility is her guide dog, Cameo. Most guide dogs are screened and selected to be trained, and are raised by 4-H families. For several months the dogs go through intensive, specialized training, a process that may cost up to $42,000 per dog, Vega said. She said the cost of the training is often paid by sponsors. According to Vega, having a service animal in public is often a problem because the general public is not aware of the eti quette necessary to deal with such animals. Vega said the biggest problem she faces is when people distract Cameo when she is working. People do this by petting the dog without asking, offering the dog food and talking to the dog while she's working. Vega re-. alizes that in most cases people are just trying to be friendly, but distracting Cameo while she's working may have serious consequences. "I remember when I first came to Weber State to register. I was going up the union building stairs with Cameo and my mother when a student petted Cameo without asking. Cameo lunged and I would have fallen down 21 stairs if my mother hadn't held my arm. I was scared and angry," Vega said. Vega and other blind students want fellow students to be aware of a few simple rules regarding them and their animals. Vega said students should ask permission before speaking directly to or touching the dogs. Students should remember that when guide dogs are in public, they are See Blind page 3 Quick Takes f i- t. : 1 If ' t fi News Asia Week unmasks Far Eastern cultures at WSU. See page 5 A&E Pro-Motion dancers step into new season. See page 6 Opinion WSU students and faculty analyze math requirement. See page 4 . " if . V Sports 'Cats sharpen their claws and skills in spring football. See page 9 Weather Wednesday Partly cloudy 6241 Thursday Increasing clouds 60s40s f s x s |
