: ; Weber State College Comment, june 1985, page 4 ‘g All-wood Debaters: national champs house wins award SC debaters may taken second place in season play, but petition the champions. in have regular tournament Wildcats are com- national The Weber squad ended up in second place in the national debate stan| dings given by the Cross Examination and Debate Association (CEDA) behind four-year champions UCLA, but when it-came time for the National Final Debate Tournament, which is much like post-season play for athletics, the WSC debaters toppled the Bruins and upped their win/loss record with UCLA to six and one. Standings in the regular season of! debate, which is called National Sweepstakes, are calculated by a point system. Teams in CEDA, which is composed of 300 colleges and universities, compete against each other and This house, built by WSC construction technology students, features an all-wood foundation and triple-paned window sills. The house won the Design for Better Living Award from the American Wood Council. A wooden house built by Weber; AState construction technology energy efficiency that is almost three times as good as conventional homes, students has received the Design For: said WSC program director Phil HanBetter Living Award. : cock. Hancock, who is an_ instructor The award is given by the American Wood Council located in Ohio and is specialist in the construction technology department, said that the given “to builders and architects whose is “on the cutting edge of work demonstrates creative design, im- home aginative use of wood systems and ex- technology” and has given students an cellence in craftsmanship,” an opportunity to build a home using the American Wood Council publication said. The house is located at 5633°S. 300: W. in Washington Terrace and has an all-wood foundation. This, plus other unique features gives the home an _ are awarded points. At the end of the season the team with the most points wins. ; The problem with that system, said Berube, is that when one team is afraid they will lose to another they can ar- range their schedule so as |= never P to compete with that rival and thereby stay ahead in points. He said, ‘New rules are being considered for determining eligibility, transfer status and the entire national ranking system is up for revision.” The second place sweepstakes stan-} | ding and the first place win in the national finals is the highest for the Wildcats who took fourth in} sweepstakes last year year before. Berube said, and “Weber T colle lead schc coul Hor hon Mc! Ald sixth the has paid dues and deserves top honors. was only a beginning.” its 1985 soul men fice. the Flor He said that two of the best debaters} in the country, Shauna Cox and Kevin} Boyer, will be graduating from the eight-member team this year, but he expects to add a number of top new students. “Weber has become Pro: | pres the debate school of choice.” The Wildcat debaters begin their 1985-86 season Sept. 29 and Berube said the college plans to debate both in CEDA and in the national debate tour- nament (NDT). Student nurses learn from experience latest techniques and materials. He said, “We have never had a student graduate from the program who did not already have a job. On the whole we have a top quality student.” —Daylight savings |We're only fooling ourselves father savings of modern time said daylight ‘‘we’re only fooling ourselves” when we move clocks ahead one hour in the summer months. Dr. Don R. Murphy, professor of ee cphy, is credited by the U.S. Congress as the person responsible for daylight savings as it’s now organized, but he said the only real reason for the switch during-the summer is to move early morning hours of sun to a time when more people can use them. Dr. Murphy said, “What we're doing is taking the morning daylight hours when we're not up and sticking them in the evenings. We could accomplish the same thing if everybody just went to work an hour earlier and it would be a lot easier to put kids to bec at night or go to a drive-in movie.” He said that according to sun time the July sunrise in Utah is around 4 a.m. with sunset at about 8 p.m. But, he said, people don’t want to sleep through those early hours of sun sc they change the clocks to read 5 a.m when it’s really only 4 a.m. Dr. Murphy said, “The Lord made the earth so we have long days in the summer to do all our work and short days in the winter so we can rest, and it’s a marvelous system. But in our present economy where most people are not farmers we go to work from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and don’t need days like that so we fool around with the time if make it more convenient.” Dr. Murphy said that originally gic 3 community set its own time depending on the movement of the sun in the area. However, when the railroad began quickly spanning long distances, a systematic approach to time was needed. An international conference divided the world into 24 different time zones with the base station located at Greenwhich, a suburb of London. The middle of the Mountain time zone runs through Denver so noon there by the sun became noon for the entire zone, which stretches from Nebraska to just west of Tooele. In 1973, congressmen voted to have daylight savings time year-round. Dr. Murphy sent a study to congress that pointed out that because Ogden was on the far west end of the time zone it was. actually only 11:30 a.m. by the sun when the clocks read noon. That, he said, created a great problem for school children in the winter who had to leave for school by eight when sun time was only 6:30 a.m. and the sun was not up yet. Dr. Murphy’s report was read and immediately after, congress voted to change daylight savings to begin the last Sunday in April and end the last Sunday in October. Dr. Murphy said, “Right now there are two groups opposed to daylight savings and that’s parents with small S Marie McEntire, R.N. and preceptor at McKay-Dee Hospital, checks a patient) monitor with nursing students Danny Cole and Beth Skeen. No students at WSC must spend three weeks working in a hospital before they graduate, thanks to a recently established program called the preceptor program. Students in the associate degree nursing program spend two years working through different ‘‘rotations’’ or periods where their education emphasizes specific areas of nursing care. students and is offered each winter and|)_ spring quarter. “This is a very progressive program,” said Mrs. Larsen. “Weber State is an innovative school.”| The program began last year as a pilot study and has already been incor-| porated into the regular curriculum said Diane Baughman, curriculum) director and medical-surgical instructor. “We had 37 students in the pro- The gram preceptor program comes into play during the last three weeks of the student’s second medical-surgical rotation, or winter or spring quarter of their second year. Nurses at McKayDee, St. Benedict’s and Humana Davis North hospitals serve as preceptors, or role models for the students. The students are required to work one-on-one with the nurses, 40 hours < week, eight hours a day whether it’s a day shift, swing or nights. While on shift they use the machines, work with the patients, handle emergencies and, under supervision, act as full-fledged nurses. Lael Larsen, faculty liason and instructor of nursing at WSC, said, “Each rotation consists of theory and clinic. The preceporship is pure clinic. The students spend eight hours a day at children and drive-in theater owners. the One group is more powerful than the rest though, and that’s the golfers, which shows where the power is in this country.” classes.” hospital and don’t attend any Mrs. Larsen also noted that the program good is “icing on the cake” providing preparation for WSC nursing winter quarter and 60° during spring,” said Mrs. Baughman. Both instructors agree that the program is working well and there has been much positive feedback from the preceptors, hospital nursing supervisors and the students. “The hospital nurses take on_ this_ responsibility without getting any extra monetary compensation. They are very supportive of the program--and many of the nurses chosen to participate (as preceptors) are graduates of our program,” said Mrs. Larsen. Students entering the program set goals for themselves as to what types of procedures they want to try firsthand. Danny Cole, who participated in the program winter quarter 1985, said, “I get to see the theory in real life, I like it better. It’s a good feeling to watch people get better.” Beth Skeen, a second-year nursing student, added, “I've been able to do I.V.’s, give I.V. medication and learned to organize my work so that I can get it done on time.” e