and completed two years later. Funds for the building had come from the legislature, from private donations, and from funds appropriated for remodeling of the old St. Benedicts hospital. In April of 1981, the circular science lecture hall was named the John G. Lind Lecture Hall in honor of Lind a geology professor who taught at Weber from 1896 until 1938. In May of 1981 the plaza between the Fine Arts Building and the Union Building was dedicated as the Aaron W. Tracy Plaza in honor of Tracy who had served as a faculty member and president of Weber College. In May of 1982, the art building was named in honor of Farrell R. Collett who had taught art at Weber since 1939 and had served as chairman of the department of art for 30 years. In May of 1984, the Lorenzo E. Peterson Plaza adjacent to the Technical Education Building was dedicated in honor of Peterson who had been both an academic and community leader representing the college. One thousand five hundred ninety-two students graduated from Weber in 1981 and 1,766 graduated at the 1982 commencement. Webers 95th Commencement in 1983 saw 2,031 graduates. Members of the Weber State College campus community were able to save money and help students as they took advantage of the services of the Dental Assistant program by having their teeth cleaned and other dental services performed. The Crime Lab which was part of the Criminal Justice program became an important part of law enforcement in northern Utah by examining evidence recovered from the scenes of criminal activities. A special Handicapped Awareness Day was held on November 3, 1981. As college costs increased, students were asked to pay for quarterly class schedules beginning in 1981, and a linear tuition proposal was discussed but never adopted. Tuition costs were increased 8 early in 1982. Faculty members were encouraged to teach more effectively, to publish, and to update themselves by taking sabbatical leaves. Campus police were kept busy with thefts on campus, drug problems, and traffic and parking violations. After a decade of not publishing a yearbook, attempts were made to revive the Acorn during the 1981-1982 school year. A yearbook was produced but the experiment did not stimulate long-term student interest in an annual yearbook and the yearbook project like the planned mountain sumac block WS on the hillside to the east of the campus faded away. Beginning in the Fall of 1982, the division of Continuing Education was moved to Promontory Towers and located on the third and fourth floors of the building. President Ronald Reagan visited Ogden and Hooper on September 9, 1982, and the Signpost carried several pages with pictures detailing the visit and the preparations for the visit. The presidents visit was aimed at voters in northern Utah and the upcoming congressional races. The Signpost changed with the times including adding a Signature section to highlight activities in and around the campus and advertisements featured attorneys, health spa memberships, tanning salons, eating establishments, free haircuts at Weber State Cosmetology, find the rock diamond and jewelry contests, movies, and cultural events, and contests to involve readers in guessing the winners of football games (the Gridiron Game) and basketball games (the Slam Dunk Contest). Campus debates involved students, faculty, politicians, and other invited guests and centered on such issues as the MX Missiles, nuclear weapons and war, faculty evaluations, tax rollbacks, the state of the economy, the basketball seating and ticket policy for students, and discrimination. Sorority and Fraternity Rush continued to be a highly advertised event but the movement toward affiliation with national sororities was not as strong in the 1980s as it had been in the 1970s. In January of 1983, the Associated Students of Weber State College Legislative Council voted to discontinue the Miss Weber State pageant suggesting that the pageant was expensive and the position was outmoded. In 1983 the Crystal Crest Awards program was initiated to bring added attention to the student sponsored awards program. The Crystal Crest Awards program recognized outstanding accomplishments on campus and attracted widespread attention across the state. The Crystal Crest program included awards presented by prominent individuals and nationally known performers provided the entertainment for the evening. Two Weber State College poets were named Poet of the Year by the Utah State Poetry Society: LaVon B. Carroll in 1982 and Sherwin Howard in 1988. Weber Studies was announced as a scholarly journal to be published by the College during the Fall of 1982 and publication has continued to the present. 8 The College literary magazine, Metaphor was published on an annual basis. Research and publication of research in books, articles, and at scholarly conventions was one hallmark of the Weber faculty. W. Blair Low was selected as Educator of the Year in 1983 by the Utah Association of Teacher Educators. During the Fall of 1982, President Brady initiated the Presidents Club Banquet where donors of gifts to Weber State College of 1,000 or more were honored and presented a plaque. As of March 1982, the College employed 2,313 full and part-time employees, and was the second largest employer in Weber County and the third largest employer in the Davis, Weber, and Morgan County area. The total annual payroll to Weber College employees was 28 million and Weber State College investments in area financial institutions totaled 8.8 million. As of the same time, March 1982, Weber had a total of 819 nonresident students who placed an annual average of 5.1 million directly into the community for lodging, travel, food and entertainment, and over 6.4 million when educational costs were included. During the Fall of 1983, ALPS was introduced on campus. This acronym was the designation for Automated Language Processing Systems, and was a computer-assisted writing program which was the first step of a plan to have writing across the curriculum introduced into many of the courses of the college. ALPS was used particularly in English composition classes, and by the summer of 1987, the ALPS system was supplemented by more updated computer equipment. Several Weber faculty members participated in reading papers in the community during 1984 on aspects of George Orwells 1984. As Weber celebrated its 95th birthday in January of 1984, President Brady suggested that he was disappointed that two of Webers goals had not been met. Those goals were adequate funding to assist every student who wanted to attend Weber State College and appropriate compensation for the faculty and the staff.