38 WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 39 Such contests include oratory, extempore, impromptu speaking, panel discussions, interpretative reading, and poetry reading. Students who distinguish themselves in speech activities may achieve membership in the local chapter of Phi Rho Pi, national honorary forensic society. The Department of English offers opportunities for participation in student publications and forensics. The Department of English supervises all student publications. The Acorn is the College annual. Participation in this activity gives students two kinds of experience: editorial and business. Editorial work consists of planning the book, arranging art designs, pictures, cover and format generally; of writing resumes of the year's activities, and of copy and proofreading. Business involves making contracts for photography, printing and engraving, soliciting advertising, and selling the book. The Weber College Signpost is the student body newspaper. It is an eight-column, four-page publication printed on the presses of the Ogden Standard-Examiner at two-week intervals. It is written and edited by the students of English 6, 7, and 8, although any member of the student body may become a staff member by application and regular contribution. Scribulus, the College quarterly, serves a three-fold purpose: first, it provides practical periodical experience for those whose primary interests are in creative work; second, it stimulates the student body generally to self-expression; and third, it gives more utilitarian purpose to class exercises in composition. The Department of English sponsors debate and cooperates with the director of Speech in extempore and oratory. The Department of English directs all debating activities of the student body. Debating has as its curricular basis a course in argumentation. Those who represent the College in interscholastic competition are chosen upon merit from the college generally. Participation in three intercollegiate debates or discussions makes a student eligible for membership in the Utah Alpha chapter of Phi Rho Pi, national honorary debating society. The department each year sponsors the Novitiate Contest in ex tempore speaking, the purpose of which is to orient new students in Weber College and to initiate them into the speech program of the College. The Department of English cooperates with the director of Speech in preparing students for the various speech contests. The Department of English sponsors each year the Weber College Debate and Speech Tournament. The Department of Physical Education provides for mass participation as well as for the exceptional athlete. The Department of Physical Education teaches the fundamental skills and strategy in various activities in the physical education classes. To provide opportunity for further participation of all students, the programs of intramural and inter-scholastic athletics have been organized. Interscholastic athletics are designed for the exceptional athlete. Interscholastic competition is provided in football, basketball, swimming, wrestling and boxing, fencing, tennis, track and field. These sports provide competition between the junior colleges of Utah and Idaho. Regular schedules are arranged for the various events in the Intermountain Junior College Athletic Association. Department Activities Music offers opportunities for the development of group organizations, and of vocal and instrumental soloists. Each year the Department of Music concentrates its efforts upon the development and presentation of the traditional Christmas Oratorio and a standard opera. Choral activities center around the Glee Clubs. There are six smaller ensemble singing units: the Dorian Singers, a selected group of male vocalists; the Musettes, a traditional choral group of women; the Mixed Quartet; the sextet, consisting of six women and one male soloist; the trio; and the duet. The Soloists Club includes only those selected singers who have reached a cultural state in their development where they can adequately represent Weber College as vocal soloists before the public. These combined musical organizations unite their efforts once or twice during the school year to present a formal concert in con junction with the Symphony Orchestra. Speech offers opportunity for student participation in plays, college assemblies, and radio programs. The director of Speech supervises the production of plays and directs all speech activities other than debate. Play Production: Three full-length plays, together with a varied number of one-act plays, are presented annually. In these productions qualified speech majors are called upon to assist in various phases of the production, including work as assistant-directors. In instances of opera presentations, those interested in speech may fore go production of a major play during the quarter and unite their efforts with those interested in musical activities. Speech Activities: (1) Extempore Speaking: the James L. Barker Contest is designed to stimulate interest in extempore speech and to encourage competition between freshmen and sophomore students. The winner of this contest is honored by having his class numerals engraved on a silver cup, and by receiving an individual cash award of ten dollars provided by the donor, Professor James L. Barker. Impromptu Speaking: The Anderson Jewelry Company Award is intended to foster impromptu speech competition among individual participants. The winner of this contest is presented with a gold medal. Oratory: Each year the instructor and students of speech con duct a major inter-collegiate oratorical contest on the general subject "Americanism." This contest is sponsored by the Ogden Junior Chamber Of Commerce in the interest of American ideals, and pro vides as a permanent college possession, a gold cup on which is in scribed the name of the winner, together with his class numerals. The award of the first place winner is a gold medal. The contests in Extempore Speech, Oratory, and Impromptu Speaking are conducted before special assemblies held for the entire student body and invited guests. Additional contests are conducted within speech classes as a part of class activities. Students who distinguish themselves in public speaking are given opportunity to qualify for contests held with other colleges both within the state and elsewhere.