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Show MONDAY, AUGUST 30,2010 THE SIGNPOST continuedfromfront questions about to the WSUSA-planned health. The Continuing Foam Party, which started Education Department at 8 p.m. and ended at set up a booth with the midnight. Initially, the video game Rock Band party was to be held in for students to play. the Stewart Bell Tower Going along with this Plaza, but was relocated year's Block Party theme to the ballrooms inside of "One Hot Time," the Shepherd Union two dorm rooms were Building due to poor set ablaze in the rugby weather conditions. field as a fire safety Due to the relocation, demonstration. A the foam pit could walkthrough area allowed not be included in the students to see the show celebrations, and a new and learn to be safe with date for the Foam Party fire inside was set. It will their dorm be held on rooms. *£ Friday, Sept. N i k k i great 10, to make up time for Nicholas, its absence. Wildcat However, Block Party the live case entertainment chairwoman, § t said she w a t by Jeff Dye, is always winner of looking for makes C o m e d y new ways Central's and ideas to Last Comic freshen up Standing, and Nicholas the dance party the Block Party. Wildcat Block took place Created by Party chairwoman nonetheless. Nicholas and For Cynthia a group of Phelps, WSU students six years ago, the activities director, this Block Party has been one year's Block Party was a of the most successful success. She accredits events at WSU. this to the work of all "It is a great time for the people involved in WSU to showcase what planning the event. makes it so amazing," "The diversity of Nicholas said. different clubs and The celebration organizations was greater continued with a pep than past years," Phelps rally at 12:45 p.m, that said, "and they all came featured WSU's band, together to make this coach, cheerleaders year's Block Party the and athletes. Lunch best yet." was served and the Multicultural Center provided the students with ice-cold drinks. Comment on this story at After the Block Party, wsusignpost.com. students were invited PHOTO BY BRYAN BUTTERFIELD I THE SIGNPOST PHOTO RY NATHAN COULFORD | THE SIGNPOST Top: Members of the WSU Spirit Squad rally students as part of the Welcome Week activies. Above: WSU students dance as part of foam party. Due to weather, the foam pit was removed from the festivities and the party moved inside. The foam pit has been rescheduled for Friday, Sept. 10. World and National Headlines Chile, a society ripped apart by February's massive earthquake, unites around trapped miners Axn Sept. 7 SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — Just six months ago, one of the largest earthquakes in a century tore Chile apart, physically ripping the ground, triggering a deadly tsunami and leaving in the wreckage a divid- Sorority Rock Climbing ; 6:45pm @ Stromberg Gym Meet the Ladies of Delta Chi Omega 7pm @ U.V. Community Center Game Night 7:30pm @ U.V.Community Center Water Kickball 1 pm @ U.V. by the Volleyball court WSU Football game 5:30pm meet in Dee Event Center south parking Sept. 8 Sept. 9 Septil Sept. 11 For more information contact: Tiffani Foster 801 499-4403 tiffanifoster@mail.weber.edu • - .: i Fraternity Sept.8 Sept. 9 Sept. 11 Sept. 11 ed society and government trying to decide whom to blame. Now, with Chile confronting a new disaster — 33 men trapped alive in a mine below the Atacama Desert since Aug. 5 — the nation is unified by the drama playing out in slow motion. Sitting alone on a hill above the mine where his brother, Juan, is buried alive, Oscar IUanes, 51, qui- Game/Sports Night 6pm @ U.V. Volleyball courts BBQ with the Thetas 6pm @ U.V. Water Kickball 1 pm @ U.V. by the Volleyball court WSU Football game 5:30pm meet in Dee Event Center south parking For more information contact: Antown Bernal 801 664-2995 Senators are needed to fill the following positions: ~ Davis Campus - African American ~ Hispanic Come be a part of student government; make a difference while earning a fellowship and padding your resume. Apply at Student Involvement & Leadership in room SU 326. etly fidgets with pebbles in his right hand and contemplates how his personal tragedy has also become that of his countrymen. "This accident has crossed all borders. Everyone in Chile, rich or poor, a mining family or not, is sending a positive force that sustains us," he said. "The will to survive started with the 33 miners alone under the ground. It soon became 150 as the families arrived here. Now it is an entire nation, all working with the same spirit to free the men." This time, Chileans are less interested in the blame game and more concentrated on getting the men out of the ground alive, even adopting the one can-do symbol from the quake mat killed 500. A tattered Chilean flag flies above Dlanes' head on the hill overlooking the mine and the makeshift camp where the families of those trapped await their return. Signs of life: Crews begin planting oak trees at ground zero as part of Sept. 11 memorial NEW YORK CAP)— After nearly nine years, life is retuming to ground zero in a tangible way. Crews Saturday began planting 16 swamp white oaks at the World Trade Center site. They are the first Uf nearly 400 trees to be planted around the eight-acre memorial to the nearly 2,800 people were killed when terrorists attacked me twin towers on Sept. 11,2001. The trees will dot a cobblestone plaza surrounding two huge pools built on the footprints of the destroyed towers. Joe Daniels, president of the 9/11 Memorial Foundation, was on hand at the site to help with the planting. He said designers of the memorial envisioned a lush and quiet green space that would bring solace to visitors. "When people come up to the pools and see the names and be under this canopy, this forest, it will be a very peaceful environment," Daniels said. Catching up with private insurers, Medicare expands coverage to help smokers kick the habit WASHINGTON (AP) — They've lived with the health warnings about smoking for much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, yet about 4.5 million older people in the U.S. keep on ligliting up. Medicare is finally catching up to most private insurers by providing counseling for anyone on the program who's trying to kick the habit. Dr. Barry Straube, Medicare's chief medical officer, says it's never too late to quit, even for lifelong smokers. ^moking-related illnesses cost Medicare tens of billions'a yea%%Straube cites a two-decade estimate of $800 billion, from 1995 through 2015. |