Speakers Bring Wins to Weber By DICK RICHARDS First place honors settled upon Weber speakers six times in tournaments at University of Utah and Utah State Agricultural College during winter quarter. Other high ratings were awarded them in addition to the firsts. In the U. S. A. C. invitational meet the results were: Bettie Lyman, first in interpretation with three-fold ability in acting, poetry, prose. Le Grant Shreeve, first in after dinner speaking, third in manuscript reading. Vira Beth Robson and Joye Ann Shurtleff, Floyd Kunzler and Dick Richards, tied with other teams for first place in debate. In Utah state tournament for junior colleges and lower division contestants, at University of Utah, results were: Rebecca Wells, first in interpretation. Renee Glover, first in acting. Jay Livingood, third in radio commercial speaking. Floyd Kunzler and Dick Richards, tied for second place in debate. In Western Association of Teachers of Speech Tournament, George Pepperdine College, Los Angeles, Floyd Kunzler, Gary Spencer, Vira Beth Robson and Hazel Batchelor reached the finals but did not place first or second. Intramural competition in the James L. Barker inter-class competition resulted in the first place $10 award going to Eugene Swenson as best speaker and the cup for best class going to Swenson and Dick Richards, freshmen. Speakers representing the sophomore class were Floyd Kunzler and Lloyd Ferguson, who gained the right to represent the sophomores through eliminations. Leland H. Monson coached debate and was assisted by E. Carl Green. M. Thatcher Allred coached in other events exclusive of radio. Dr. Dean Farnsworth coached radio speech. Under The Spotlight (Continued from page 4) "How are Reed, Wally, George and the others?" he inquired, reeling off a list of faculty old-timers, when he was interviewed concerning his great record. Coach Reed K. Swenson of Weber coached Stan when he was forward on the Weber basketball team. He lettered in three sports during his two years at Weber and in football and basketball during his two years at B. Y. U. His two major sports got him the freshman coaching assignment at the "Y" in 1947. His sports and scholarship and leadership attainments earned him the Edwin Stein award upon graduation in 1938. Poised in manner even in excitement of tight games, Coach Watts reflects the Weber College tradition of sportsmanship and self-control in competition. On April 1, Mark Austad, graduate of 1941, will revisit Utah, scene of his first triumphs in forensics, to read the continuity for the Sunday night program of the Latter-Day Saint conference in Salt Lake City. He is now heard nationally broadcasting from Washington, D.C. The former Weber student body president was a national first place orator in Phi Rho Pi contests in Charlotte, North Carolina. The next year he won first place in radio speaking in the same tournament. Debate Coach Leland H. Monson remembers a turning point in Mr. Austad's life when, jobless and in need of employment, he delivered one of his deep-voiced, emotion-packed addresses before Ogden Rotarians and then received four offers of positions before he left the hall. 14 Intramurals Phoenix Succeeds After years of struggle against Sigma for intramural honors, Phoenix this season has 1115 points in all events as winter quarter closes in comparison with 454 for the Iron Men. The "Sisters" came through with a first in basketball and water polo and high total points in ping pong and paddle ball, although lank Art DeBoer won these latter events for the faculty. Mass participation got the Phoenix ladies the top points in both. Sigma won volleyball. Although the race is not in the bag until it is in the bag, as intramural history has shown, the forecast at the two-thirds says it is a Phoenix year. The last was 1947-48, when the contest was nose for nose down to the wire. Most of the clubs have been off their feed during winter quarter, according to Norm Burton, intramural manager. In fact there have been so many managers before Burton that it was only for this write-up that the totals were figured. War jitters, maybe. Standings for all clubs were: Phoenix, 1115; Sigma, 454; Faculty, 306; Dorm, 278; Alpha Rho, 166; Skull, 156; Excelsior, 154; Viking, 86. Spring quarter events looked like swimming, horseshoes, track, tennis and softball, said Burton. Girls Have Muscles Too Competition in girls' intramurals is a toss-up as winter quarter ends, with wins being posted by Iota, Tiki and Shar-mea. Wins recorded in volleyball are: Iota Tau Kappa, first; Sharmea, second; Tiki and La Dianaeda, tied for third. Ping pong results are: Tiki Kappa Kappa, first; La Dianaeda, second; Chanodo, third. Foul pitch ranks the clubs this way: Sharmea, first; Iota Tau Kappa, second; La Dianaeda, third. Heaving 13 baskets through the ring in individual competition, Joye Ray is rated first in the sharpshooter class, but just behind her is Dorothy Lightfoot with 12 successes out of the 20 possible. Helen Benson is rated third with 11 times through the hoop. Basketball and squash spill over into the spring quarter, said Mrs. Marva Gregory, director of the program. But here again in basketball the play is close with all contestants looking good. The same thing is generally true in squash, but Mrs. Gregory pointed out that La Dianaeda is a leading squash threat. Otyokwa, intramural records reveal, is still in school and low group on the athletic totem pole. Members still know how to manage a date, however, middle of the week or any old time, according to sports observers. Queer People (Continued from page 3) blizzard over the week-end." Another informant says, "Each teacher considers his class the only important one and piles on the homework without stopping to consider that other teachers are doing the same thing." Teachers' preferences baffle you. The men teachers take a shine to the girls, and the women teachers warm to the fellows. Maybe they're not so queer. You tell us there are a number of ways of making a hit with the teacher. You can "have good handwriting or type your work anything to make his job easier." We hate to believe it, but some of you tell us that teacher's pets are on the job at Weber because "while all students pay an equal share in the tuition, the ones who are the most capable are the ones given the opportunities to improve. The student who really needs help is not always the one to get it." There are apple polishers among the teachers themselves, some of whom "grade you on who you are, not necessarily what you do . . . Too bad we all can't have wealthy or prominent parents." The loquacity of teachers is a never-ending wonder. You are literally dumb before them. They never let you get a word in edgewise. "They chatter like bluejays." They ask "questions in class and, not waiting to hear your snappy comeback, answer themselves." You, of course, haven't had an opportunity to open your mouth all day so, naturally, you feel frustrated when the teacher "spends hours in talking, quite often about everything but the lesson." It really is very boring to the student. While lecturing, you say, "The monotone of their voices makes even an interesting subject dead and mouldy." You think that in the matter of dress, teachers give full rein to their peculiarities. Either they are accoutered in the latest edict of Messrs. Hart, Schaeffner & Marx, with trumperies of Argyle, Arrow and Hickok, or they look like something just flushed from the hobo jungles. This could be politics one testifying to the teacher's apparent poverty, the other implying that it takes folding money for haberdashery befitting his professional status, and both contributing to the propaganda that teachers need a raise. Teachers demand that you be punctual, but on the morning you nearly break your neck getting from the College Inn to your class before the last count, your teacher nonchalantly strolls in fifteen minutes late. Is he embarrassed? Heck no! You note that "the only reason one of our teachers ever gets to class is because he lives so close to the Moench Building." (Continued on page 23) 15