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Show if Q Q I IMp) I I f l I III III II , I -'"" editorial Editor in chief: Heather R. Stallings Phone: 626-7121 - "P MIV 'i i'"1 ' it ORDER? Soon to graduate from WSU: nontraditional, 'poster child' People who warned me I should not leave the five-credit U.S. History requirement 'till my last quarter of college were right. Not that it isn't fascinating, but it's very hard to look backward and forward in life at the same time. This has been known to cause high speed traffic accidents and whiplash. Maybe I'm having a mid-life crisis, but something has gone haywire. The bitmaps are all crossing in my senioritic, spring-feverish brain, and the data is confabulating into one scary stream of consciousness.Sometimes you realize you've just signed up for an odd mixture of classes. Deep meditation on the actual causation of the American . Civil War does not translate well into Hypertext Markup Language. Gestalt Therapy technique basics doesn't meld with job interviews, either. You worry that it might become obvious to others that you're slipping. Like the computer, Hal, in the film classic. "2001: A Space Odyssey," maybe you'll start giving inappropriate responses to the "search commands" of others, and they'll have to deactivate your ' Pentium chip. Or the "nice young men in their clean white coats" will be coming to take you away ha. it5&!. .Sfct tew Sue Spillane-Bramlette"Consider the source" ha, ha, ha! Ah, but how to silence all those voices I don't know! The future beckons like a siren, and the past haunts you like Hamlet's ghost. The only way to beat them is to listen to them. "I am the ghost of Christmas past," declares the Dickensien visitor who appears unbidden. . "Long past?" asks Ebenezer Scrooge in terror. "No, your past," he replies simply.OK, I was wrong about the history class. Alas, I've been wrong about some other things through the years, also. Like portion control, planned parenthood (I had four babies within five years) and the guy I married, wherever he is now. I thought video rental stores would never make it. "Like who is going to be that picky when you've got five perfectly good TV channels to choose from for free?" I said (circa 1972.) I didn't think that bungee jumping would fly as a sport or that video games would sell (I've still never played one, personally). It surprised me when people let all the great 'ma and pa' eating establishments go out of business in favor of chain restaurants, and when they asphalted over South Ogden. I stuck with music cassettes 'cause I didn't think CDs would last. Such miscalculations have cost me dearly and may help explain why I am graduating from college at 42 with $ 1 2,000 in student loans coming due and no prospect of professional employment. We aren't always right about the future. That's why going back to the past sometimes becomes imperative. A sort of internal house-cleaning, or global stock-taking; separating what was then from what is and what will be, finally, is vitally necessary to facilitate future development of the life in question: Such a task can beall-consuming, unforeseen, andmania-inducing. "When I was young, 1 never needed anyone, and making love was just for fun. Those days are gone." Life, it seems, consists of get-See Child page 5 letter to the editor Peace will reign in class when students learn to be quiet Alisa Rasmussen's "Whispering in class" viewpoint was well taken and well written. All Weber State University professors need to know the Meyer fire posturing named after Richard Meyer, a fine professor of English at Western Oregon State. It was my delight to watch his professionalism in the following paradigm: two "inadverdent" discussants were disturbing his presentation in my class. He stopped the presentation, walked over to one of the two discussants, eyeballed the offender and said. "Do I have your commitment as to your silence in class?" Reluctantly, Meyer got their affirmation. He did the same to the other offender. Peace reigned, class was in order. Roger Clark WSU 1955 alumnus Buying graduation announcements means final goodbye The trouble with buying graduation announcements is: Making the commitment to buy at least 10. Do you have 10 friends, or will you be keeping eight of them in your scrapbook? Most of your friends are already at Weber State University, and they already know you're graduating. Besides, your environmental friends will most definitely complain about the formal two-envelope enclosure. Why waste the paper? Refer to No. 1. Besides, wouldn't e-mail be a lot cheaper? Most of your rich relatives may not still be living, anyway. You now have to weigh the people you send them to against your dream of sauntering across the graduation stage with nothing on under your gown. You're still not sure you even want to get up at 8 a.m. on your first "day off." The fear of wearing purple gowns surfaces in your dreams, because you know you're getting closer now. That "light of hope at the end of the tunnel" turns i a dark shade of gray at the reality that you now have to find a job. You won't get to hear that cute little chime as you enter your social security number at trie beginning of a registration period. Instead, a witchy lady on the other end of the phone will question your significance in life asking, "haven't you applied for graduation already? You're already 200 credit hours over the requirement..."It means you HAVE to PASS all your finals or suffer the ridicule of siblings (and kissy-faced relatives) who have already graduated.It is the signal of our official entrance into "the real world," where tardies count and where grunge music is not acceptable at high decibels during lunch hour. It is the signal of the end of another wonderful, riot-free year at WSU, the school we'd always come back to for a third and fourth degree if we could. It means goodbye is still that dreaded word friends always hate to hear. ' opinion by Alisa Rasmussen, The Signpost news editor emeritus Recipient of the UPA General ExcelSence award Lii i Editor In chief Managing editor News editor ; Campus affairs editor A&.E editor Sports editor Copy editor Features editor Graphics editor Photo editor Toastbone editor Production mngr. Advertising mngr. Online editor 6 Secretary f Adviser Publisher " ;- Sfgnpost fax - Heather R. Stallings Taylor S. Fielding Mellyn L. Cole Leona Christensen Melinda Taylor Brandon Rodak Tyler A. Holt Heather Wallentine Broc Porter Chad Arnold Melissa Boothe Derrick Andersen Raymond Chow Colleen K. 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