June 19, 2013
Activists throughout 308 colleges and universities, 105 cities and states and 11 other institutions are participating in a campaign to withdraw investments from fossil fuel companies. Ten institutions, including five colleges and the city of Seattle, have committed to completely divesting in fossil fuels. Leroy Christensen, the president of the Weber State University Environmental Club, said his [...]
Continue reading …For Weber State students who aren’t taking summer classes, it’s been summer break for more than a month now, yet it hasn’t really felt like it until the last couple days. It never really feels like summer until June, so I feel like our summer break is just now kicking off. I’ve already crossed off [...]
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Salt Lake City’s annual Pride Festival took place in downtown’s Washington Square in a spectacle of color, culture and pride in the LGBTQ community. The Utah Pride Center, a nonprofit organization focused on providing support for the LGBTQ community in striving for acceptance and equality, has been putting on the festival since 2004. Over the [...]
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Sitting next to unarguably the biggest basketball star in Weber State University history 13 months ago, even head coach Randy Rahe was surprised by the biggest goal young point guard Damian Lillard had when he announced he would enter the NBA draft. “I want to be Rookie of the Year,” Lillard said. “Some people might [...]
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Every ski town that Mike McDonald had ever been to had a local pizzeria, except for Ogden. That is one reason why he thought 25th Street was the perfect location to open The Lucky Slice Pizza with his partners, Nick VanArsdel and Will Shafer. McDonald ran a pizza place in Flagstaff, Ariz., for [...]
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Originally from Saudi Arabia, Bassam Almuhamidh is more than 7,000 miles from his hometown and is graduating this spring with a degree in telecommunication administration. Almuhamidh has been at Weber State University since 2006. He said he came to the United States specifically for WSU, and he’s had to navigate substantial linguistic and cultural differences [...]
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