64 1. Student Publication. 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 proof reading. Business involves making contracts for photography, printing and engraving, soliciting, advertising and selling. The Weber College Signpost is the student body newspaper. It is a bi-monthly tabloid 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 W. C. Handybook is the official handbook of ready information prepared by a sophomore staff as a convenient guide to the college lifeits administration, activities, songs, cheers and directory. 2. Debating. Debating has as it curricular basis a course in argumentation. Students who represent the College in inter-scholastic competition are chosen upon merit from the College generally. Participation in three inter-college debates or discussions makes a student eligible for membership in the Utah Alpha Chapter of Phi Rho Pi, national honorary debating society, The Weber College Debate and Speech Tournament for high schools in the Intermountain Region is sponsored by the Department of English and Speech every year. 3. Extempore Speaking. Public speaking at Weber College is promoted not only in speech classes but in all basic communication courses as well. Such efforts find their highest expression in contest speaking, both on the campus and in meets with other colleges. Conspicuous among the intramural efforts in speech is the annual James L. Barker Contest in extempore speaking. 4. Oration. A major inter-collegiate oratorical contest on the subject of "Americanism," is sponsored by the Sons of the American Revolution each year in the interest of promoting American ideals. The Sons of the American Revolution provide a gold medal for the winner of the contest. 5. Students who distinguish themselves in intramural contests may qualify for contests held with other colleges. Such contests include: debating, extempore and impromptu speech, oratory, interpretative speech, poetry reading, acting and radio speech. Students who meet the requirements may achieve membership in the Utah Alpha Chapter of Phi Rho Pi, a national honorary forensic society. 6. Play Production. Play production at Weber College is fostered in two ways: First, through a joint-effort between the college and the community known as Ogden Community-Weber College Theatre. Management of this enterprise centers in a Board of Directors composed of members of the College staff and the Associated Students as well as from the community at large. Second, through a Departmental enter- 65 prise, solely, known as Theatre Workshop. This group produces annually a varied series of both one-acts and full length plays. Productions of this group center in the Cellar Theatre of the Bertha Eccles Hall but are presented at times, also, in the main auditorium and elsewhere in the community. Through alliance with the community and through the Cellar Theatre series of plays, students are given an exceptional opportunity at Weber College for enjoyment of drama and for participation in the various phases of play production and in little theatre organization and management. 7. Speech Arts Workshop. Qualified students are permitted to enroll for credit in a course devoted exclusively to preparation for public appearances before campus groups, or other audiences in the community. Through this class students gain excellent experience and furnish valuable public service as special speakers, readers, story tellers, book reviewers, etc. 8. Radio. Weber College offers a full lower-division professional curriculum in radio broadcasting. In addition, numerous programs are produced by the college on local radio stations. Talented students are invited to participate on these programs. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION English Composition and Rhetoric 1. Basic Communications. A study of communication by means of reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Habits of critical and logical thinking are encouraged. Special emphasis is placed upon an extended expository paper in which students are taught a process of collecting materials and organizing them into an effective verbal structure. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff la. Basic Communication. A daily course required of students whose entrance examination in English indicates serious deficiencies in English fundamentals. (See description for Basic Communication 1). Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 2. Basic Communication. A course designed to acquint students with mass media and to give them practice in the critical analysis and the composition of exposition and argument. Clear thinking is stressed as a means of accomplishing the major purpose of effective communication. Prerequisite: English 1. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 3. Basic Communication. A course in the forms of description and narration, emphasizing the use of these types through reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Techniques of effective reading of fiction and poetry are stressed. Prerequisite: English 2. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff