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Show EL INVIERNO WEDNESDAY TRAE TRISTEZA DECEMBER 2, 2015 página 4 WSUSIGNPOST.COM VOL 86 • ISSUE 46 WSU takes part in World AIDS Day By NATHAN CRAGUN news reporter PHOTO BY KAITLYN JOHNSON | THE SIGNPOST On Nov. 7, actor Charlie Sheen revealed on NBC’s “Today” show that he had been HIV positive for the past four years. “It’s a hard three letters to absorb,” Sheen said. “It’s a turning point in one’s life.” After trying to keep the secret and even succumbing to multiple extortion demands, Sheen revealed his secret. “I release myself from this prison today,” Sheen said. Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day, an event that occurs annually and serves as an opportunity for people around the world to unite in their fight against HIV. Weber State has participated in their own way by setting up several booths in the Shepherd Union Atrium and hosting free HIV testing. PHOTO BY ARIANA BERKEMEIER | THE SIGNPOST WSU provided free HIV testing to promote HIV awareness on World AIDS Day. “People need to understand that there are prevalent resources available,” Jayson Stokes, the LGBT Resource Center coordinator, said. Stokes was one of many that manned several booths within the Atrium. The booths repre- sented several organizations including the LGBT Resource Center, Weber State’s GSA (GayStraight Alliance) and Students for Choice and Planned Parenthood. See AIDS DAY page 3 People who develop SAD feel the affects as teens and young adults. Old man winter brings on the blues By MICHAEL BUNDERSON s&t correspondent Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that affects people each year around the same time. The most common time those affected will feel this is during the fall and winter seasons; however, there are people who feel affected in the summer season. “I have always felt affected by seasonal change,” Rachel Bunderson, a south Ogden resident, said. “A lot of times it makes me feel sick.” According to Bunderson when she was 12 and moved to Houston she didn’t feel the affects of SAD because Houston doesn’t experience as much seasonal change. However, Bunderson noticed changes after moving to Utah. “After moving to Utah when I was 19, I felt it a lot more when the seasons changed,” Bunderson said. “Particularly during the winter.” According to Chris Chapman, a counselor at the WSU counsel- SCIENCE & TECH ing center, the majority of people who develop SAD feel the affects in their late teens to early twenties. “I would have all this motivation when it was sunny,” Bunderson shared. “But when it was rainy or snowy all that motivation would just go away.” Feeling a lack of motivation is just one of the symptoms that one can feel with dealing with SAD. Other symptoms include, but are not limited to, difficulty concentrating, agitation and a loss of interest and enjoyment in activities or hobbies previously enjoyed. While these symptoms are common, not everyone who develops SAD will be affected by all of the symptoms. Those dealing with SAD may experience any combination of these symptoms. Chapman also commented that many people experience SAD and do not even know it because they end up attributing their depression to the winter weather. “I think there is such a stigma See SAD page 3 news reporter IN THE SIGNPOST CALENDAR. . .........................2 SPANISH.............................4 SCIENCE & TECH . . .....................6 A & E...................................7 PHOTO BY MICHAEL NUMBERS | THE SIGNPOST Strikes bring in plenty of spare food for Weber Cares By MICHAEL GRENNELL news editor Bowling, quarters and food for hungry students came together Monday night at Wildcat Lanes in the Shepherd Union. Bowling for Quarters and Cans was held to raise awareness for Weber Cares food pantry and assist in replenishing its shelves with assorted canned goods. Student Involvement and Leaderships’s Clubs and Organizations sponsored the event. Vice President of Clubs and Organizations Greg Woodfield explained that Wildcat Lanes donated all eight lanes to give back to those in need. Students paid $2 for their shoe rentals. The price of admission was a can of food, Woodfield said, and for every strike people achieved on the bowling lanes, they were to donate a quarter, with the proceeds going to Weber Cares. About 75 to 80 people crowded the lanes, according to freshman Brendan Thomas, who worked the event, and a table set up near the entrance was piled high with cans. “It was hectic,” he said. “But overall it was a pretty good night.” Woodfield said 142 cans of See BOWL page 3 Utah vs. El Niño By KERBY HANSEN HANFORD NUCLEAR CLEANUP DELAYED page 6 (Left) Volunteers tally the donations from the Bowling for Quarters event at Wildcat Lanes on Nov. 30 There have been predictions that this year will follow an El Niño weather pattern. Now that we are approaching winter, the forecast is only getting more attention. “We’re predicting this El Niño could be among the strongest El Niños in the historical record,” Mike Halpert, the deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in a New York Times article. Salt Lake City News has also said this may even be the strongest El Niño event Utah has had in 18 years. El Niño is a climate pattern that is characterized by unusually warm water temperatures along the equator in the Pacific Ocean. The warmer waters release more heat to the atmosphere, causing changes in its circulation. As a result of the change in circulation, the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean becomes stronger, which generates more intense thunderstorms over the western U.S. Southern Asia and Australia, which are normally rainy, become dry and experience droughts. The Western Pacific, on the other hand, experiences stronger typhoons and has experienced five super typhoons in 2015 when they normally only have one by this time of the year. See NIÑO page 3 SOURCE: CORALINE OLIVAS Snow Basin Ski Resort in Huntsville, Utah. |