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Show AT A GLANCE EDITORIAL BUSINESS&SCIENCE SPORTS CLASSIFIEDS Stewart Stadium completed ...page 6 2 3 4 6 7 Science in the Parks ...page 4 t VOL 81 ISSUE 49 TUESDAY. JUNE 28, 2011 WWW.WSUSIGNPOST.COM Firework laws spark emotion New regulations not affecting holiday festivities discourage students Department is monitoring the situation to see if there are going to be increased risks of accidents or fires because of the changes. This year, the Utah State Legislature voted to change the rules regarding firework regulation in the state, allowing for previously unavailable aerial fireworks, some of which can reach 150 feet into the air. The new changes also extend the amount of time in which fireworks can be set off. Previously, they could only be lit three days before or after the 4th and the 24th. Now they can be set off any time from June 26 to July Financial inequality in the U.S. is due to the supply of collegeeducated workers By Thomas Alberts asst. news editor I The Signpost Weber State University students have more leeway when it comes to celebrating their 4th and 24th of July holidays due to new State of Utah firework rules. The state legislature has expanded the length of time around the holidays in which fireworks can be set off, and also expanded the types of fireworks that can be used. WSU students applauded the new rule changes, but some expressed safety concerns. The Ogden City Fire By ShayLynne Clark news editor I The Signpost See Firework page 5 PHOTO BY BRYAN BUTTERFIELD THE SIGNPOST Members of the Relay for Life display a sign lit by twinkling lights on the Ogden Amphitheater's stage. Participants wrote messages to their loved ones on paper bags and displayed them around the stage. Retiring, but still bleeding purple before I came here. So it was kind of an easy decision. SP: What are some of your favorite projects you have put on at WSU? KP: It's really the students, it's not the Community Involvement Center at me. It's the students who've done these Weber State University. After 11 years of amazing things, not me. I'm just their service to WSU, Peterson has decided to adviser. A few things stick out. In, I think, retire and serve others in the community. 2004, they did Hooked on Fishing, and my The Signpost: What brought you to work students recruited people from the inner city of Ogden, brought them up here, and at WSU? Kari Peterson: Service in the community did a huge event where they got so many where I came from has kind of always sponsors that they had prizes for every been my love. I was on the board for the child who came. They had an educational everyone who came Ogden Rescue Mission when they built the piece where new building, and I was on the board of Eccles Art Center See Retire page 5 Community Involvement co-director leaves WSU, but continues to serve the community By ShayLynne Clark news editor I The Signpost Kari Peterson has had a life filled with service to others, being the director of the March of Dimes for northern Utah, as well as a social worker for Ogden City schools. This path of service led her :.*... to the co-director position of With the price of higher education increasing on a seemingly steeper and steeper incline, many students are starting to feel the pressure. "I have to work to pay for my classes and get an education," said Alexis Nageli, a Weber State University junior majoring in history, "but I also have to have time to actually do well in those classes, which has become much more difficult with the increase in tuition and fees for college." Many, not just at WSU or in Utah, but across the entire United States, echo Nageli's sentiment in regards to schools like Michigan State University, which increased tuition by 7 percent in the last week. According to the Pew Research Center, more than 2,000 universities in the U.S. offer undergraduate courses, and within those schools, there is a very wide range of tuition costs. Typically, state and regional schools range between $3,000 and $9,000 a year, while private institutions cost between $21,000 and $42,000 a year. "College prices have been going up faster than any others costs in the American economy, faster even than health care, and certainly faster than inflation and family income," said Patrick Callan, founder of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education in an interview with the Association for Financial Professionals. "What we see in this economic downturn is an acceleration of a trend that's been going on for three decades, and it shifts more and more cost on students and families." The Center on Education and the Workforce, out of Georgetown University, recently published a study that projected the amount of college graduates • who will be needed [ to fill jobs in 2018. 'This study suggests that the United States 'will need to add 20 'million postsecondarySee Higher ed page 5 |
