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Show 1 f - " sports Sports profiles Keenan Cordon, a star on WSU's football team, page 10. neiu featuring David Polli)ohn, a WSU student, was awarded a national scholarship, page 6. Learn about music therapy and how it uplifts self-esteem in the features section, pages 8 & 9. -4 ,. Volume 63 Issue 25 Wednesday, October 25, 2000 I 11 11 mmi m A" w B E L(BS3ddmi t7anraflsQBe!3 WSU is using outcomes assessment to satisfy accreditation By Leo Dirr assignments editor The Signpost The Political Science Department used to rely on such indicators as how many students were accepted to graduate school or were hired after graduation to assess how much students learned at Weber State University, the department chairman said. "But that doesn't really tell us much, because they may have come in smart and not left any smarter," Rod Julander said. The political science department will add a portfolio requirement to its senior seminar this spring semester. Portfolios will Student leaders want new minor By Wes Hanna campus affairs The Signpost Students in leadership positions all over campus are coming together to discuss the possibility of a leadership component to their education in the form of a new leadership program. They hope it will become a minor soon. The leadership minor would set a precedent in Utah and in much of the West, Doug Rose said. Rose is chairman of a committee that has been meeting this semester to create a leadership program on campus. The committee hopes to have the program put together by the end of the school year. "We want the leadership program to be very distinguished," Rose said. "Leadership applies to every field that students go into." If the program is to become a minor, it must be See Minor page 7 R T A allow a faculty committee to evaluate students' progress by looking at samples of academic papers, essays, exams, internship projects and other work from different years of students' academic careers,, Julander said. The departments portfolio require ment is part of a campuswide movement toward more formal and systematic outcomes assessment. The university has been working since 1998 to implement assessment plans in Two 'survivors' By Jamie Gross campus affairs writer The Signpost The naked man is finally coming to Weber State University. This time, however, without his lazy partner. Richard Hatch, who was originally scheduled to come to WSU last September with Gervase Peterson, will now be coming with his alliance partner and the woman who some say gave one of the most vicious heart to heart talks ever heard by a national audience, Susan Hawk. Hatch and Hawk from CBS's "Survivor" will speak Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Shepherd Union Building ballrooms. Hatch and Hawk were two of the final four castaways from the original 16 left on the island vying for the $1 million prize. They did not start out in a group of only 16, however. There were 6,000 Americans who submitted their six-page forms and video tapes for their chance to be one of the castaways.There were also a few others interested in the show. In the first two months that the official "Survivor" Web site was up. it had more than 800.000 hits. Once the show finally hit the television, according to its ratings, it became the most popular summer television show in history. "Survivor's" ratings were higher than all of the other networks' ratings for that time slot combined. 1 latch and Hawk were both interesting enough to the producers of the show to make it to the final IGNPOST T U standards, improve education every academic department by spring 2001. A Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation committee visited WSU in 1994 and said the university needed a more comprehensiveevaluation system of e d u c a-tional programs. The Utah Legis lature and Board of Regents are also emphasizing outcomes assessment as a way to See Standards page 3 44 i " ' Richard Hatch lived on a deserted tropical island for 39 days. He was bitten by a million bugs, and he even paraded around naked. This 'survivor along with Susan Hawk, will come to WSU's Convocation' Thursday 10 a.m. in the Shepherd Union Ballroom. cut. They were also able to survive the first few tribal counsels when they could have been voted off the island. They were also smart enough to be the two original members of the infamous alliance. The alliance began and ended with the final four castaways. Hatch ended up walking away with the $1 million prize and the new Pontiac Aztec. Hawk was the first one from the alliance to go. Hawk had one of the most memorable parts in the show N V Former janitor arrested for thefts at WSU By Tanna Barry managing editor The Signpost Michael William Zielinski, a former Weber State University janitor, appeared in Second District Court Tuesday for an initital "hearing. He was arrested in connection with a series of thefts in the Val A. Browning Center after he confessed to Weber State University police officers Oct. 25. He was booked into Weber County Jail for two counts of theft, class B misdemeanors, and two counts of burglary, both third degree felonies, Oct. 25 around 9:08 p.m., according to the jail. to speak V when at the-final tribal counsel she blasted Kelly Wigglesworth, who had been one of Hawks' closest friends on the island until the final days when Hawks called her a rat. Hawk slated Wigglesworth shouldn't be the winner because of the unethical way she played the game. Hawk compared Hatch to a snake and said everyone knew what he was up to from the beginning. Hawk urged the final tribal counsel to let things go the R T Y Zielinski's preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. Nov. 21 before Judge Roger S. Dutson. WSPD Officer Keith Wheelwright, one of the arresting officers in the case, said that initially, they didn't go to arrest the man. The officers simply went to question him regarding the thefts. The officers brought the suspect to the police station where they read him his Miranda rights and proceeded to question him. During the questioning, however, the suspect admitted to committing several of the thefts, according to a police report. At this point, he was arrested. See Thefts page 7 at way "Mother Nature intended to be, for the snake to eat th rat." Another of Hawk's memorabli lines was "if you (Wigglesworth were lying on the road and dyinj of thirst, I would not bring you ; drink of water. I would let thi vultures above eat you." Hawks' thoughts on this subject have changed since the show. Hatch had some of his own See Survivor page 7 WSU |