May 23, 2013
Craig Oberg stopped before he crossed the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on Monday to take pictures with his wife, sister and mother. He then ran ahead, finished the race, and was walking to get his bag when he saw one bomb go off, then another. “I felt that concussion, and I could feel [...]
A panel discussed and analyzed the national trend of criminalizing children instead of educating them, referred to as the school-to-prison pipeline, Wednesday morning in the Wildcat Theater. The four panelists were Emily Chiang, a professor of law of the University of Utah; Forrest Crawford, a professor at Weber State University; Brenda Valles, a professor at [...]
Continue reading …In an unfortunate bit of “where are they now?” trivia, media outlets broke the news on Friday that former NFL cheerleader Elizabeth Garner was charged of trying to seduce a minor. Garner, who retired from cheering for the Tennessee Titans in 2008, is accused of trying to pull down a 12-year-old boy’s pants at a [...]
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Should students carry guns on campus? This Wednesday, a four-panelist committee discussed these types of questions in the Shepherd Union Building’s ballrooms with Weber State University students. Dane LeBlanc, WSU police chief; Fred Donaldson, principal of DaVinci Academy; Stephanie Hollist, associate general counsel at WSU; and Phil Kirk, captain of the Park City Police Department, [...]
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Douglas Crow, a 69-year-old Brigham Young University custodian from Provo, was riding his bike near a FrontRunner railroad crossing in the early morning after Valentine’s Day when he was reportedly hit by an Escalade, pushing him directly into the path of the oncoming FrontRunner train. Though Crow was transported to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, [...]
Continue reading …Recently, a phishing e-mail was sent out across campus asking for personal account information including username, password and e-mail address. The e-mail said it was sent from the Weber State University help desk with the subject line Weber UserID. Andrea Grover, the information security manager, said she is still investigating who sent the e-mail and [...]
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