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Show A healthy treat or deadly eat? ATAGIANCF 2 FDITORIAl see page 4 MONDAY, MARCH 29,2010 WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY EEATURES. 4 SPORTS 6 CLAS5IFJEDS 9 WWW.WSUSIGNP0ST.COM WSU to ax SI course requirements in 2010 a BS degree. Those students who pursue a BS will have some science in their program, with the approximate 100 classes offered as SI requirements being taken away. The BA degree will include 12 credit hours of language arts, six of By Frances Kelsey which are required to be a foreign editor in chief I The Signpost language. "From a distance looking in, I Weber State University has re- think the benefit is that it aligns cently been the only university in Utah to have requirements for our degree programs more closely Scientific Inquiry for a Bachelor with what the standards are for of Science and a Bachelor of Arts specific fields of study nation- that is, until Thursday, March ally," said WSU Vice President for 25, when the faculty senate vot- Student Affairs, Jan Winniford. ed to abolish the SI requirements "Right now with the BA and BS and replace those credits with designation, we are sort of out of classes more pertinent to indi- alignment when you look at what a vidual students and their majors. typical BS degree is on other cam"I am very pleased that puses. And therefore, it's not maythe proposal was accepted be as reflective as what is a typical by the senate," said the chair requirement for that area. We're of the University,, ;Curjriculum the only university or Committee, Erika , ' '-. college in Utah that Daines. "Sometimbs... I think it's has an SI requireI have to take things ment, so it aligns us to senate that I per- wonderful. I with other university sonally am not so standards." excited about. This think it will Thompson said one is different. It has been years in benefit the she felt the change the making and will students in would be primarmake WSU a more ily beneficial for stulogical institution." the future. dents but wonders if it will take away from The committee's objective was to taistudents in broad- Victoria ening their perspeclor the BA and BS degrees more closeThompson tives. ly with individual "The only thing I Student Body majors, rather than President-Eject can see that might be requiring SI classes 3/bad thing is somei that may not be fitjS' primes we're forced ting for certain mato take classes that jors. we would never have taken in the "I think it's wonderful," said Victoria Thompson, student first place," Thompson said, "and body president-elect. "I think sometimes we learn things about that it will benefit the students ourselves that we would have nevin the future. I know I didn't re- er known had we not taken those ally have a problem with the SI classes. I think that could be a pobut I know people who would tential problem but I don't know just throw in random classes how many students actually get to fill that credit and most of that from the SI classes or not." the classes they took were just Daines said she feels the effects meaningless to them, so I think on students and faculty alike will this is wonderful." be positive. Individual departments will decide whether to offer a BA or See Scientific Inquiry page 5 Faculty senate votes to change gen-ed requirement PHOTO BY BRYAN BUTTERFIELD I JUC SIGNPOST Ryan Shupe of the RubberBand plays an acoustic/electric mandolin during Friday night's performance in the Austad Auditorium. Packed Austad Auditorium welcomes WSU alumnus By Laurie Everett correspondent I The Signpost Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand performed to a packed Austad Auditorium on Friday night, sponsored by the Weber State University Student Association and LDS Student Association. Members of the band are Roger Archibald, Craig Miner, Bart Olson, Ryan Shupe and Ryan Tilby. The audience consisted mainly of young adults. The first hour had opening acts such as the Folk Dance Team, a barbershop quartet, Polynesian singers and the opening band, Double or Nothing. The emcees then led some of the crowd in a dance-off and the winners were awarded with candy bars. Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand took the stage at 8 p.m. he first song included a banjo solo by Craig Miner with most of the band jumping up and down like pogo sticks, eliciting laughter from the crowd. Shupe introduced the next song as a new one, which was about "brand-new shoes you get See RubberBand page 10 Women's Center celebrates 30 years Empowering WSU women since 1980 By Monalisa Wald correspondent I The Signpost "Women Helping Women" is the theme the Weber State University Women's Center is using to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Carol Merrill, director of the center for the past 12 years, said the center's purpose is to provide campus and commu- nity resources that will help students succeed throughout their school experience. "Women come back to school after an extended absence," Merrill said, "or are coming to the university for the very first time and they don't know how to get started. They don't know what to do. We are one of the few offices that literally walk students to every single department to make those introductions." The center also receives women on a daily basis seeking advice with issues ranging from academic, such as problems See Women's Center page 5 The Women's Center by the Decade 2OOO-2O1O 198O-199O 1990-2000 198O- Women's center opens - Women's Center begins - Divorce Group organized - Displaced Homemaker , Program established jI offering scholarships • .* - First Domestic Violence Awareness Month " J - Commencement of annual 1 '%'•:'- Community Connection Fair - Single Mom Support Group begins - First Women Empowerment Conference Counseling and Advocacy since 198O Graphic BY MIKI ETO | THE SIGNPOST f yubRsfiecf publication. "Because over 56 percent of the student population is nontraditional, then we felt like it was appropriate to have a nontraditional student journal." Cox said the journal was inspired by other universities who have more than one literary journal. By Brian Giles "I felt like, while Metaphor's great and correspondent I The Signpost it's broad scope, that the nontrad students needed a place where they could have a voice," she said. Weber State University's literary jourBritta Stumpp, one of the authors pubnal, Metaphor, is an outlet for students to showcase many forms of creativity. lished in the journal, agreed. "I think it's great that there's another litStudents submit essays, poetry and ficerary journal on campus/' she said. "With a tion as well as original music to be pubsecond journal, there's more options." lished each year. Stumpp also said that nontraditional Recently, a second publication has students have a unique perspective. been created to allow a second way for "We make up more than half of this camsome of these works to be published. pus/' she said. "We should have our own Epiphany, which will release its second representation. We deal with different life volume Monday, is only open for non- issues than traditional students. Most of traditional students to submit, whereas us are working full-time and juggling marMetaphor is available to submissions riages and children along with our college from all undergraduate students. courses. It's tough. Of course our literature "Epiphany has a very localized audi- is going to be different." ence and group of authors," said Rachel See Epiphany page 9 Cox, managing and founding editor of the 'Monday |