November 28, 2012
Weber State University’s student senate voted on Josh Hunt and swore him in as the diversity vice president at the senate meeting on Monday. He was ratified by a three-fourths vote from the senators. Last week, the Diversity Vice President Search Committee nominated Hunt. The senate then waited a week to vote on him. “We [...]
For the past few weeks, the diversity and unity vice president position has been open for all Weber State University students to apply for. Joshua Hunt has been selected as the diversity and unity vice president candidate. Hunt came into the student senate meeting on Monday to talk about his nomination and why he thought [...]
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The Public Relations Society of America’s Greater Salt Lake Chapter has chosen Amy Fiscus, a Weber State University public relations major, as the 2012 Utah PR Student of the Year. Fiscus won $1,000, a trophy and an internship with the charity People Helping People. For the contest, Fiscus had to create a public relations plan [...]
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The Standard-Examiner hosted the Holiday Fair in the Shepherd Union Building Ballrooms Saturday where community members set up about 70 booths to sell crafts and homemade food. “It’s a fun one,” said Jennifer Thorpe, the special events coordinator for the Standard-Examiner. “We wanted to do something around the holidays.” This is the third year that [...]
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The Community Involvement Center hosted the second annual Hunger Banquet on Thursday evening in hopes of teaching people about poverty. “I think people are less aware of hunger and poverty in the U.S. because it is such a rich country, but even though it is such a rich country, there are people that are living [...]
Continue reading …During the student senate meeting on Monday, the senators decided on the topic for Deliberative Democracy Day: gun control and the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Deliberative Democracy Day is an annual event that takes place during spring semester. Students get to hear from a panel of people on the chosen topic. After the panel, [...]
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