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Show Wednesday, December 6, 2000 THE SIGNPOST Page J Input continued from front To clarify that The Grind is a special edition of The Signpost, we have crafted a new Grind masthead, which we will unveil spring semester. The new masthead was created by Adgraph-ics Designer Ryan Rogers to help eliminate the confusion people were expressing. Web site Yes, The Signpost posts its newspaper on the World Wide Web, www.wsusignpost.com. A recent student survey, conducted by one of our image coordinators, showed that almost nobody knows about the Web site. Our gut reaction to the survey results was: "When did we get an image coordinator?"No seriously, we have three image coordinators, and we knew we had them.' But we were not thrilled to learn students apparently do not know about or use the Web site. We have been running house ads advertisements promoting the publication in which they run like crazy trying to raise awareness of our online presence.Is anybody reading those house ads? Do you want to read The Signpost online? Give us a clue. The Web site has recently moved from our former site weber.edusignpost to a dotcom site to facilitate online advertising. On the new site, we'll be able to make the site more interactive. E-mall links will be at the end of each article to help our readers communicate with the reporters and editors use those. Let us know if you like or dislike a story and if you want more or less of such stories.A1 centerpiece The Al (front page) centerpieces are intended to be in-depth news stories about topics that generally fall outside reporters' day-to-day beat checks. Center pieces run Mondays and Wednesdays. This semester, we have run centerpieces on the football team's offensive line, the lack of knowledge on campus about the school song, "Purple and White," bumper stickers in WSU parking lots and the struggles of adjunct professors. These stories, like Beyond the Grind, are supposed to be longer than the typical news report. Centerpieces require more reporting and analysis of the big picture than deadline stories. If you think the centerpieces we have written have been too long, let us know. We recognize that sometimes less is more. We would like to get more stories about arts and entertainment, business, health, religion and sports on the front page, and we believe the centerpiece is the appropriate venue. If you have any story ideas that you think we are . too dense to come up with ourselves, fill out a news coupon and tell us. Editorial board This year. The Signpost has implemented a five-member editorial board. Staffers on the board are: Lisa Roskelley, editor in chief; Mark Gray,, news editor; Tanna Barry, managing editor; Wes Hanna, campus affairs editor; and Leo Tyson Dirr, special assignments editor. (Barry is leaving us spring semester to work full time as an Intern for 'The Standard-Examiner." Her replacement will also fill in for her on the editorial board.) The editorial board meets each Thursday afternoon to discuss and determine The Signpost's position on subjects which we will write about in Viewpoints for subsequent editions. The entire staff is informed of the editorial positions in staff meeting, and reporters and editors have a chance to comment on those positions. Ml This year, The Signpost has chosen to run unsigned Viewpoints, breaking with the tradition of signed editorials in previous years. This is consistent with the editorial policies of Utah's three largest daily newspapers, "The Salt Lake Tribune," "The Deseret News" and "TheStandard-Examiner." Generally, a member of the editorial board writes the Viewpoint. The Signpost welcomes letters to the editor, but we have not received many of late. So go ahead and tell the campus what is on your mind in 350 words or less. We publish guidelines on the editorial page. For the first time in recent memory. The Signpost this year offers an outdoors column. Clark White's "Your Outdoors" runs every Monday on the sports page. Tell us how you feel about his column, which has received mixed reviews in the newsroom. Help us serve you The Signpost takes the approach that campus news is the most important news to our loyal readers. We strive to provide fresh stories with a WSU angle. We assume you can and do read about national and world news in larger publications or get your information from television, radio or Internet news sources. We would like to know how well you think we meet this goal. Are the stories in The Signpost what you expect from your student newspaper? How well do we balance hard and soft news? Would you like to see more stories about interesting people on campus, or do we already write too many? Please return a news coupon and give us an idea of what we are doing right and wrong, you can also find in online, check it out, let us know and we'll be back next semester. FOK HOME OR SC HOOL? visit us on the web at www.laptopsagain.com Your 1 Source for used laptops and laptop parts 1325 West 648 South Orem, Ut 84053 TEL: 8014266100 The Signpost wants to better serve Weber State University students. Please fill out and return this news coupon with suggestions that may improve the news and editorial content and visual aspect of this newspaper. Are we covering the topics that matter to you? Would you like to see us publish more investigative stories? If so, what do you think merits an investigative report? How well do you like our sports coverage? How about arts and entertainment? What would you like to see us do differently? What do you like about The Signpost? Other suggestions: I I Please return this coupon to The Signpost office 1 UB 267 across from the bowling alley in the Shepherd Union Building. 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