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Show THE WEBER HERALD Published on alternate Mondays during the school year by the associated students of Wtbcr College. Address all communications to the Weber Herald, Weber College, Ogden, Utah. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor ' James Sundquist '2uir,ess Manager LeRov Steele Aco!ste 3 in ess Manager John M:ithieu Associate Editor Helen Lindquist Aisyciate Editor Virginia Peterson Sports Editor. Lynn Roberts Society Editor Helen Parmley Hnmor Editor Spencer Klomp Artist : Ted Aaron faculty Advisor Dave Trevithick Speci?.! Contributors: Ruth Chandler, Ilermoine Tracy, Kathleen Wilson, Helen Smith, Kathleen Foulger, Clco McCracken, Robert Nilsson, Norma Anderson. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Superintendent - Howard Stephens Faculty Advisor.. Lucy Denning Typist Marjorie Wood Typist Lois Robinson Advertising Compositors: Typesetters: Type Distributors: Pge 1. Mary Walker Page 2. Arn..H Wright, Ila :!cKe 1 1 'fije Thcro:: K'jbiso". Page 4. Mela., iliiidall ;age 5. Basil Mc.fulln. Karnes!, Netvey Page le.-e Ttnshf'-rih, By.-le Gilson Vage 7. Norma Meyers, Maurine Khaw i'Sije S. Robert Nilsson ?aE Ru.h Mc Karl and. G.iie Ma lan :joi;e ID. i.-"loise Brough Page 11. Ruth Ames, Ruth Ellis ?ii?e U. Ardith Ashby WHY END INTRAMURAL BASKET BALL? When the tournament now under way at the gymnasium is completed, intramural basket ball competition this year will end, and all attention will be turned to building a team for inter-colleglate games. Did it ever occur to you students of Weber College that the present intramural program is of much more real benefit to the student body than will be our scheduled inter-college activity, and that it is a mistake to replace any sports program by one that is le?s beneficial? Much has been argued as to the comparative profit, financial and physical, of the two systems at other schools, with the usual result that interschool activity has been retained. But at Weber College conditions are such that in our case it would be preferable to discard all plans for intercollegiate basket ball in favor of an extended intramural program. To meet the expenses of traveling and the cost of proper equipment for the ten or fifteen boys On the varsity squad, it will be necessary to curtail the student body appropriations for debating, drama, and spring sport. Basket ball it Weber has never been self-supporting and can hardly be as long as we remain a junior college. The schools that make up the intermountain junior college league are so scattered that the few advantages to be gained by sending our team to them do not justify the expenses to an impoverished student body. There is tittle prestige to be obtained, even by winning the championship. Theoretically of course, it is irrational for ten boys to travel more than two hundred miles for less than an Boor's exercise. If intramural basket ball were continued alt winter the benefits of the competition would be available to every student who desired to play one hundred and twenty would take part instead of twenty. And the student body money that pays for basketball could be spent in some way that would bring returns to the entire student body rather than to a fortunate few. o VALUE OF DAILY ASSEMBLIES Weber won her fight for continuance, but that victory will be worthless if daily assemblies are abolished by those who advance as their only arguments the facta that the assemblies arc a waste of money and a waste of time. Despite the contentions of the opposition, daily Weber assemblies are beneficial because: 1. They have improved a great deal recently. 2. They promote unity, school spirit, and friendship. 3. They tell students what has happened, is happening, and will happen at Weber. 4. They have a cultural value in sponsoring musical, dramatic, and educational programs. 5. They train debaters, orators, musicians, actors, and dancers for public appearances, and promote departmental activities. 6. They make contacts with the outside when lecturers, important persons, and students from other schools participate In our programs. 7. They do not interfere with study if a student bod-gets his time properly. 8. They prevent depreciation of our organ, piano, and other musical instruments by constant use of them. These values, it is true, would be gained if two assemblies were held each week, but five assemblies provide two and one-half times as much value as two assemWIes would. Should we then stand passively by while th misinformed few attempt to abolish our daily assemblies o |