November 28, 2012
As dinner plates empty and the last drops of Thanksgiving gravy drip down the sink, the comforts of turkey-induced dreams break way to the disheartening realities many veterans, both home or abroad, will face this holiday season. In what’s traditionally meant to be a time of merriment and festivities, military families and veteran students of [...]
As veteran soldiers make the transition from active duty to full-time academia, many are finding themselves engaged in a different type of struggle on soil as foreign as the battlefields they left behind. Iraqi war vet and Weber State University student Jennifer Comer is fighting back. Comer, a criminal justice and sociology major, is campaigning [...]
Continue reading …The Community Involvement Center at Weber State University might never be the same. A meeting will be held today at 2:30 p.m. in Room 320 of the Shepherd Union Building to discuss the possibility of renaming the center, in order to better articulate its services. “The reason we’re having a language conversation is because nationally, [...]
Continue reading …The Reserve Officers Training Corps at Weber State University will participate in a competition this Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19-20, as the annual Army Ranger Challenge gets under way. Known as the varsity sport of the Army ROTC, the competition will feature teams of nine cadets: eight men and one woman. These cadets will compete [...]
Continue reading …With the threat of snow looming on the horizon, the facilities management team at Weber State University is preparing for the worst. Plans are being drawn, vehicles are prepped and maintained, and staff is on standby for the first snowfall of the year. “The rule of the thumb is at one inch of snow, we [...]
Continue reading …As the presidential debates for the upcoming elections begin, Weber State University has given students a way to watch the debates and discuss them as a group. Today from 7-8:30 p.m., and again on Oct. 11, students are invited to join the American Democracy Department for a livestream broadcast of the presidential debate and participate [...]
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