June 18, 2013
[media-credit id=35 align="alignnone" width="245"][/media-credit] A survey conducted by two Weber State University professors suggests that risky behavior in adolescents might not be motivated by impulse. Leigh Shaw, associate psychology professor and colleague Eric Amsel, psychology professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, tried to answer why teenagers do drugs and alcohol and drive recklessly. Amsel [...]
[media-credit id=4 align="alignnone" width="300"][/media-credit] WSU student Alissa Day runs on the Swenson Gym track for a cross training class Tuesday afternoon. Whether it is the South Beach Diet, Tae Bo of the 1990s, or today’s “caveman” diet and Crossfit workouts, Americans have an obsession with their health and image. It’s an obsession that sometimes conflicts [...]
Continue reading …Weber State University’s international students feel silenced, according to International Senator Naif Hamad Abusaq. In student senate, Abusaq raised a concern about a recent personnel change in the International Student and Scholar Center. According to Abusaq, and confirmed by Jan Winnifred, vice president of Student Affairs, a new administrative position was created to manage out-of-center [...]
Continue reading …Nipping and tucking and cutting, oh my! Plastic surgery is becoming more and more commonplace in America. According to data collected by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the most common cosmetic surgery in 2010 was the breast augmentation. The second-most frequent was the removal of breast implants. But, aside from augmenting ourselves, a rising [...]
Continue reading …Weber State has received some unwanted attention in these past couple of weeks due to an incident during a concert at the Browning Center last week. There was apparently some noise in the audience that was a bit too disruptive for director Michael Palumbo, who stopped the concert and told (not asked) the noisemakers to leave [...]
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[media-credit name="Amanda Lewark" align="alignright" width="200"][/media-credit] Left: Weber State University’s Dama Cox and Briana Wilms block a ball in the last home game of the season against Northern Colorado University. The Weber State University women’s volleyball team played its last games of the season this past weekend in Montana. Although the team received a victory the [...]
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