December 12, 2012
Weber State University is currently in the spotlight for receiving two national service awards. The Corporation for National and Community Service has named WSU to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service for the sixth consecutive year. Also, WSU junior Patricia Erdman will receive the Newman Civic Fellows Award Monday. These [...]
Thirty-eight Soviet nuclear warheads fired on US cities, over 1,000 US nukes decimated the entirety of the USSR, and the island of Cuba bombed into oblivion by US forces. And all this because of a plane that flew one week late. Weber State University history professor Eric Swedin discusses the ways the Cuban Missile Crisis [...]
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Sheldon Spotted Elk, keynote speaker Thursday at the seventh annual American Indian Symposium, gave unique insight into the issues of juvenile justice, spirituality and the threat of losing touch with heritage and traditions in Utah’s American Indian communities. Sheldon Spotted Elk discusses challenges facing American Indian children. A juvenile court judge, an American Indian child [...]
Continue reading …When Tyler Hess and Robbie Speelman started the Drumline Club at Weber State University six years ago, they never dreamed that by 2012 the group that began as the local “whipping boy” would be ranked No. 1 in the nation. However, that’s exactly what happened at the WGI Regional Championship in Corona, Calif., last Saturday, [...]
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Editor’s note: Due to perceived conflict of interest, Spencer Garn has been removed from all editorial oversight of this article. Candidates for Weber State University’s upcoming student-body office elections took the stage Thursday in their first public appearances. In a series of public debates, WSU students had the opportunity to meet candidates in the upcoming [...]
Continue reading …Back in August, The Signpost reported that Ogden City had shelved a proposed mass transit project that would connect the FrontRunner, Ogden, McKay-Dee Hospital and the Dee Events Center to the heart of the Weber State University Ogden campus. Ogden City has now reopened the proposal, and WSU students might get a streetcar to campus [...]
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