November 29, 2012
After a rocky Homeless Awareness Week in which several events fell through, the Community Involvement Center hosted the Cardboard Campout on Friday night. Weber State University students spent the night in the Bell Tower Plaza with no shelter but cardboard boxes to partially simulate the experience of homelessness. Participants said Friday evening that, luckily, it [...]
Along with the rest of the world, I went and saw what I think can safely be called the movie of the year — because all the other big movie events of the year are sequels to the movies of other years — at midnight on Thursday. I don’t think I even need to tell [...]
Continue reading …Almost everywhere you look on Weber State University’s campus, you can see the ways technology has impacted students’ lives, whether it’s students taking notes in class on a laptop or watching videos on a tablet or just texting in between classes. While a lot of the advances have been beneficial to college students, it might [...]
Continue reading …Weber State University students from the Community Involvement Center continued working with Habitat for Humanity to remodel a Clearfield home Saturday. The remodel began on Feb. 24 when the team of volunteers worked from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations. Each Saturday since then, students and [...]
Continue reading …The Student Athlete Advisory Committee held a benefit dance Friday night to raise money for an orphanage in Africa created by the Africa Heartwood Project. All proceeds will help the Refugee Orphan Home, located at the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana, relocate to Liberia. Africa Heartwood Project founders Andy and Kayla Jones first opened the orphanage [...]
Continue reading …Spirit Squad The Weber State University Spirit Squad captured a title at the USA All-Star & Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championships last weekend in Anaheim, Calif. The Wildcats won first place in the Large Co-Ed Cheer Division by defeating New Mexico State University and Colorado Mesa University. WSU had one of the highest point totals [...]
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