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Battling for Blood

Weber State University’s Community Involvement Center and the American Red Cross are sponsoring a blood drive in which WSU is competing against fourother Utah schools to collect the most blood. The blood battle, which includes WSU, Utah State University, Southern Utah University, University of Utah and College of Eastern Utah, occurs every semester. Last semester, [...]

By now, a lot of us are familiar with the Denver Broncos’ star player, Tim Tebow. Tebow has become widely known for his evangelical religious beliefs. He has openly stated that he does not engage in premarital sex, appeared in a pro-life television ad alongside his mother, and is most famous for his public act [...]

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The Dee Events Center will host a funeral service for Ogden police officer Jared Francom on Wednesday morning. As a result of the expected crowd, parking services and campus police have issued a traffic advisory. Students and faculty who park at the Dee Events Center will be restricted to parking spaces on the south side [...]

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Blind to barriers

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Blind to barriers

Bryan Butterfield J.R. Westmoreland can navigate an iPad and do computer programming with his eyes closed. Add to that list spelunking, rock climbing, skiing and DJ-ing an internet radio show, just for starters. Diagnosed with retinal cancer as a toddler, Westmoreland is now completely blind. When his parents asked the doctor what they should do, [...]

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After Simon Weinberg and his wife Kathy Barbini made The Healing Years, a documentary about women recovering from sexual abuse, they were bombarded with requests to shed some light on men healing from similar experiences. “One of the main reasons we do any of this is giving people a voice through a medium,” Weinberg said. [...]

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Rate your professors

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Weber State University students, alumni, faculty and staff are invited to submit nominations for the prestigious H. Aldous Dixon Award. The Alumni Association began recognizing outstanding WSU faculty and staff with this award in 1970. Beginning in 2006, two awards have been given each year, one to a faculty member and one to a staff [...]

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