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Show STEINW Y b SONS Weber an "a IISteinway" school ... page 4 'Cats get ready for Washington Saturday ... page 6 SignP 0 St WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY AT A GLANCE EDITORIAL BUSINESS & SCIENCE SPORTS CLASSIFIEDS 2 3 4 6 7 VOL 82 ISSUE 25 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 WWW.WSUSIGNPOST.COM Students welcome the new age Tech Expo showcases latest gadgets for students By Tracy Dunlap news reporter I The Signpost The Wildcat Tech Expo, also known as WTX1 1, has been showcasing different technologies annually for the past few years. This year, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, students gathered around booths in the Shepherd "Wildcat Tech Union Building to find out Expo is the top about the next top brand in today's technological technological world. The Wildcat Tech Expo fair of its is sponsored by the Weber State University Bookown kind in store and WSU Information the country - Technology Division. This year, WSU students weren't the kind on the only ones notified about the event. Special inuniversity vitations were sent out to K-12 communities in the campuses." Davis, Morgan and Weber counties. "It gives us a chance to - Brad Beazer interact with students," former manager, said Ben Taylor, a staff WSU Bookstore memberof the Wildcat Tech Expo. He said that these students are here to learn more about the new technology coming out. The expo featured top brand-name technology vendors such as Apple, Adobe, Bodyguardz, Dakine, Dell, iFrogz, Lenovo, Skullcandy, Timbuk2 and T-Mobile. See Tech page 5 PHOTO BY CRYSTAL CHARRIERE I THE SIGNPOST Students await texts to see if they were drawn for prizes in the Shepherd Union Building for the Wildcat Tech Expo. Various companies displayed their products and offered demonstrations. Some of the vendors present included Apple, Adobe and Dell. A sunrise devotional by the pond Debate team is victorious Team celebrates and prepares for Kentucky By Laurie Reiner news reporter I The Signpost The WSU debate team recently came home from a competition in Idaho with a final score of 14 wins and three losses. Its next stop is a competition at the University of Kentucky. One of the groups from the WSU debate team is going to the University of Kentucky to compete against other universities, including Harvard and Dartmouth. There will be 160 teams and 75 universities competing. WSU's Matt Gomez and Dillon Olsen will be debating the merits of PHOTO BY AMANDA LEWARK I THE SIGNPOST providing democratic assistance in Huddled near the flagpole by the pond on campus, several students joined together for "See You at the Pole," a national prayer movement the Middle East, specifically dealing aimed at bringing various Christian faiths together in the act of prayer. "See You at the Pole" has been adopted by universities across the nation. with Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Tunisia. "In Matthew 18:20 it says that Tor - to bring glory and praise to God." "I'm really excited," Olsen said. Keilah Quimby, one of the student where two or three are gathered in my organizers of the WSU "See You at the name, there I am also,"' Quimby said. "We're relatively young, and this is a Jared Moss, WSU student and good opportunity to grow as debatPole" rally, said she was first moved by the movement two years ago when leader of the "See You at the Pole" ers." Olsen started debating in high she attended a rally at the Davis cam- rally, said a "spiritual atmosphere can and is currently a sophomore organized and student-led programs. pus. The purpose of the movement, help with the learning environment." school By Michael Vazquez at WSU. He said he initially joined Done in unison, students across the Quimby said, is to bring fellowship Moss led the group with worship debate because news reporter I The Signpost he wanted to go to songs on his acoustic guitar, while ancountry typically pray for their cam- and prayer to the campus. "Fellowship is involved, but the other student played a bongo drum law school and was interested in pol"What a great way to start the day," puses and for the nation as a whole. itics and philosophy. others sang. said Kristin McCarthy of the Weber While not necessarily done on the whole reason we're doing this is to andMoss "There is nothing more mentally he feels that putting State University InterVarsity staff of same day, schools and universities in pray for the campus, and that God "God firstsaid to bring us together in uni- rewarding or challenging than deWednesday morning's non-denom- Australia and Canada have recently would work in it," Quimby said. "We ty" can do great things for the univer- bate," Gomez said. inational prayer rally, "See You at the adopted the "See You at the Pole" gather as a group on this specific day, sity. Gomez also started debate in high not as a political movement or a rally, movement as well. Pole." school after he transferred schools Many of the students who gathStudents gathered Wednesday but to come into the presence of God "See You at the Pole" is a national ered are members of WSU's InterVar- and was trying to fix his class schedgrass-roots student movement that morning around the flagpole by the and simply to pray" While other schools and universi- sity chapter, a nondenominational ule. Everything fit except a class for began in the 1990s, with the pur- pond on the south side of the Miller fellowship group that has seventh period. "It was between pose of bringing Christians and Administration Building. McCarthy ties across the country can have large Christian itself to bringing together weight training and debate, and the non-Christians from a variety of faith said these students were "students numbers of students gathered, the dedicated students of Christian faith and those rest is history" he said. backgrounds together in prayer and from all walks of life, different back- gathering at WSU was small. At times, from other faith Olsen and Gomez have been backgrounds as well worship. The organization prides it- grounds and interests (who came) only six students were gathered. At self on its student-initiated, student- together with one common purpose most, there were about 15 students See Prayer page 5 See Debate page 5 praying together. Students participate in national prayer movement |
