weber state signpost FALL AND WINTER QUARTERS Editorial: Reprinted from the Feb. 18, issue of Signpost. THE LAST OBSCENE GESTURE It's over All over. At last and finally. It certainly has been an excitiment year. I have learned a lot about human and subhuman nature, but then guess every editor does. This past week has been a curious one for me. I have been plagued with two questions. Just two. The first question goes like this: "Well now that it is almost over how do you feel?" Like I wish I could have done more during my year as editor and like I accomplished some of my goals with the paper In short my answer is glad and sad. The other question is: "How do you like the new editor?" Quite frankly it doesn't matter two picas what I think about the new editor, but rather what you think about the new editor. So in leaving this exciting position and looking back I have only a few serious things to say and some deserving awards. First Thank you Signpost staff members for all your help in making Signpost available on the stands twice a week. I wish you could know how important your writing, your time and your caring have been. Again thank you Second To my editors thank you for supporting me and Signpost through the bad times You are the people who are never properly recognized. No body knows the long hours you put out for the biweekly criticism you receive. Anyway, Rachael, Clark, Glen, Carol, and Barbara thanks to your help. . . And now the awards that have been formulating in my mind this past year. The first award goes to the echelons of the Institutional Council the Higher Board. The award is a large wrench designed for the pun of throwing into the system. The winner receives this award for selling school short as a vocational college Hear! Hear! J The Publications Board Award is being awarded to Mike Dabling the new editor-in-chief of the Signpost There are of course strings attached to this award, and there are no scissors with this award for obvious reasons. The Dan Hunter Polygraph Award is given to a person who in his duty must protect himself while being questioned and while sitting on the hotseat can come up with answers, not necessarily true answers but answers he can stick to FOREVER!! The winner of the Dan Hunter Polygraph Award is Dan Hunter. The Take Me Along if You Love Me Award this year is given to mommies and daddies who protested to the administration about the Freshman reader Currents. Right on parents don't let the system of higher education get your kids before the church does. The Ralph Nader Hotdog Award goes to, well who else, Brad Post Thirty per-cent fat, fifty per-cent water, hmmmm what's the other two per-cent? You might be interested to know that Mr Post received awards this year. The other award comes from Salem. Massachusetts is awarded by Authur Miller. Congratulations Brad, you certainly have a name for yourself. The Phoenix Award goes to E. Brent Jepperson for his gallant attempt at resurrecting the dying yearbook. However, Brent this award is invisible and wont do you any good. You can work your guts out and you won't get any recognition, but anyway here it is. ROTC Awards are always a joy. This year the ROTC awards Eric McMoon and Dr. Alston with free rides to hell in one of the World War I fighter plans Last heard, Mr. Moon and Dr. Alston asked high ROTC officials to join the And finally a tip of the hat to AWS who this year had balls, the Harvest and the Preference. That's two more than anybody else had on this campus Don't thank me for these awards you really deserve them. Ta-ta curtis, ta-ta porter. Sincerely, The very "last obscene gesture." STAFF Editor...............Jeannie Young Assistant Editor.......Rachael Crary Business Manager.......Glen Curtis Features Editor.......Carol Fredlund Political Editor.......Barbara O'Shell Sports Editor...........Clark Taylor Clockwise, starting bottom left: Jeannie, Rachael, Clark, Carol. Glen Curtis SPRING QUARTER Lett to right: Wil Grey, Sports Editor; Mike Dabling, Editor; Brent Johns. Political Editor. Not pictured: Denny Osborne, Assistant Editor; Walt Shaffer, News Editor; Randy Hollis, Asst. Sports Editor; Rosanne Hicks, Photo Editor. dabling around by mike dabling College used to be fun, now it's a riot! With a new quarter just begun and my having just returned from the military, I thought it might be fun to look around and see what is happening in college life now. I began by calling the administration building, where I was answered with, "Call back, the dean is tied up." This came as no real shock since having spent most of last summer around San Francisco State and Berkeley, I remembered that lately Federal aid to colleges means sending troops. So I decided to visit the campus for myself. Once there, I became slightly insecure when I noticed Jeane Dixon walking around with her fingers crossed, but after talking to one of the students and learning that opinions were respected as long as you didn't express them, I felt just like I was back in the military. Most of today's "older generation" think of college students as anti-establishment card burners. Personally I do not feel this is the case since I have never seen one college student burn his parents' credit cards. Still having some doubts though as to what to study upon returning to college, I sat down to mull the possibilities. After only a short time of watching young coeds walking around in their mini-skirts, however, I decided that I would try to learn the answer to the question, "Is the thigh the limit?" Some advice to the parents of college students. The only solution to your problem is to avenge yourselves, live long enough to be a problem to your children. But remember, hit children only in self defense, because you are dealing with sensitive, high-strung individuals who are probably armed. One last point concerning college marriages. They are perfectly all right providing the colleges really love each other. Read your newpaper, an informed citizen panics more intelligently, signpost Student Government Versus Signpost Student government leaders, taking their role of "Governors' seriously - took decisive action in November. In a special senate meeting Dan Hunter, ASWSC president, introduced legislation to destroy the old publications board and create a new one. Jeannie retaliated. Fighting under the banner of "Freedom of the Press," she drew a large amount of attention to herself, the paper, and the college. An apparent "hostility" between Jeannie and Dan developed, as rumors began circulating that Dan had tried to stop the presses. The establishment of the publications board as "a student oriented" group, resulted in a board comprised of a majority of Executive Cabinet members and appointees. The most notable change was the Editors were stripped of even a voice on the board. The year ended in a lighter note, however. Dennis Smith, a Signpost staffer, purchased at the Forensics Auction, the opportunity to smash Dan Hunter in the face with a pie. He then gave his $40.00 investment to Jeannie ... the rest is very gooey history.