December 17, 2012
Weber State University adjunct English teacher and Weber State College alumnus Edward Schaffer, 74, died this weekend. According to Kathleen Herndon, WSU department of English chair and professor, Schaffer had been ill for a while and had been seeing many doctors to determine the cause of his illness. The cause of death was not immediately [...]
The Ada Linquist Plaza, where students can relax in between classes or feed the ducks, is usually not a busy place. However, on the evening of July 15, the plaza was filled with thousands of people, all waiting to watch the annual Lindquist Family Pops Concert and Fireworks. The event was first started 34 years [...]
Continue reading …The Big Sky Conference will be getting a new logo, which will be fully in effect for the 2013-14 season. The announcement came Monday at the Big Sky Summer Kickoff event held in Park City, Utah. It will be the first time the conference has rebranded itself in 49 years. The new logo will be [...]
Continue reading …Weber State University has hired a new coach to its football staff. WSU head football coach Jody Sears announced last week the hiring of Ryan Smaha as assistant coach to the Wildcat team. Smaha will be the new special teams coach for the football team this season. “We are really pleased to have Ryan join [...]
Continue reading …Weber State University student Brook Young took first place for Future Business Teacher at the Phi Beta Lambda Future Business Leaders of America Leadership Conference. WSU has been involved in the PBL conference for more than 40 years, with one of its instructors winning first place in the same event in 1972. This year, 17 [...]
Continue reading …The beginnings of any specific state speaks a lot to that state’s identity. A stolid foundational state like Massachusetts buries its roots in the soil of the pilgrims. Texas’ independent spirit, the same spirit which dragged it spitting and cursing into statehood, can still be seen today. Utah’s foundations just so happen to be unlike [...]
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