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Show THE WEBER HERALD Published on alternate Fridays during the school year by the associated students of Weber College. Address all communications to the Weber Herald, Weber College, Ogdcn, Utah. Editor .. Associate Editor... Associate Editor... Sports Editor Society Editor I I ujnor Editor EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT James Sundquis! Helen Lindquist ...Virginia Peterson Lynn Roberts Helen Parmley Spencer Klomp Special Contributors; Phyllis Wardleigh, Jean Danvcrs, Helen Smith, Hermoine Tracy, Rex Harris, David Smith, Robert Xilssen, Lawrence Sonierville, Winona Cardon, Alex Alchin, Eugene Moshicr. A D V ERTISING DEPARTMEN T P.usincss Manager Milton Rawson Associate Pusincss Manager Francis Burton Artist Ted Aaron Advertising Comp Ralph Clark MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Superintendent -.Howard Stephens What does the student demand in his programs? Let the sophomores recall those they most enjoyed last year. The formula becomes clear. Eirst, assembly programs to be attractive to all must have variety. The unexpected, the unusual, is always popular. Second, they must include extensive participation ol fellow-students. We prefer always to witness the activity of our associates. Third, they must mix what lessons they olTei with a liberal supply of comedy and perhaps a touch of drama. This is ever a cardinal principle of successful entertainment. These three all-important requirements have not been met in full measure. The leaders who plan our programs are not to blame. They have secured for us several very good speakers and programs sponsored by departments cannot fill every hour they must be supplemented by efforts of the students themselves. Tn the lack of voluntary student participation lies most of the trouble. What Weber needs is a few students with originality and initiative enough to get a few ideas and put them over. Why doesn't someone organize a group clever enough to put some life and some variety into that eleven o'clock hour? Such groups have existed in former years. However, we may be certain that improvement is due. When everyone becomes more closely acquainted a smoother cooperation will be assured. In the meantime we advise you who have been absent to attend. It is worth coming to these ordinary programs if only to make certain your presence when something really worth-while happens as you may be certain it will. And when it does happen, you will carry that memory as long as any memory associated with Weber many a graduate has attested to this. WANTED: OPINIONS Compositors: Norma Myers, Alice Dunn, Melba Randall, Helen Allen. Maurinc Shaw, Florence Slcckcl, Marjoric Wood. Vivian Shaw, Ernest Ncwey, Ruth Ellis. ASSEMBLY ABSENCES A growing habit of staying away from assemblies reached its height last week when a count revealed that 18J students --more than thirty percent of the student body were absent. Something must be done. With such low attendance the primary purpose of fostering student body unit is lost, and the policy of a daily gathering may as well be abandoned. The remedy, of course, is not to be found in threatening absentees with expulsions and fines. Such methods cannot well be enforced, and if enforced result only in an unwholesome atagonism. The only remedy that offers any hope of success would be an improvement in the quality of programs that would make evervone attend, voluntarily. The Herald has established with the article on page 4 a student forum in which worthy articles expressing the opin ion of the writer on any subject will be printed. The Weber Herald is more than a name, more than a publication sponsored by the English Department. When the title "Weber" is attached to any undertaking, it is done with the expectation that the entire student body backs that enterprise. Such has been the hope of the staff in their efforts to establish a permanent record of college activity, literary and newspaper talent, and student opinion. Tf the Herald is to achieve success it must serve the students and, in turn, be served by them. The staff proper satisfies little more than the need for leadership and organization. Indeed, they cannot be limited to the editors and their assistants; each Weberilc must consider himself a member ot that staff to insure continuance of the school paper. Our respect goes to the Weberitcs with convictions, to him who is proud of his opinions and ready to defend them before the entire school. To such a student the Webei Herald Forum is open. |