Volume 629, Number 437 Weber State College, Ogden, Utah 84403 Friday, May 32, 2197 ASSISTANT EDITOR NEED HELP!! Peggy Jo Parker, yeah, the assistant editor. If she gets in a bad mood, instead of buying a hat or taking a trip, PJ takes another job on the paper. She has three or four, makes more money than half the staff combined, and is always looking and listening, she 'The Greek' as he was penned when he first started with Weber State publications, was the business manager, Lyle Karras. He was efficient in arranging any type of business dealing. The newspaper needed a hard working business executive as it expanded to a bi-weekly publication. Row One: Marilyn Larsen, Phil Morgan, Lyle Karras, Susan Stark, Brad Q. Post. Row Two: Darline Rogers, Phil Leavitt, Dan Yurth. Row Three: Claudia Hamada, Byron Warfield-Graham, Joe Heinzman, Peggy Parker. OF CABBAGES AND KINGS John Hart, Columnist I don't know anybody who really wants to be a student leader. Take the Senate for example. They are criticized by the minorities if they vote a constitution down as being "unfair discrimination, bias." If they pass it, they are "bending over backwards," "opposing the majority," "they don't care about the school." When money time comes, they are harrassed by advisors, threatened by students, advised by administration, and misquoted in the newspaper. If they give too much, they are "unfair to others," "lobbied," "biased," "uninformed," "not interested in the future." If they take a strong stand on an issue, they are "narrow minded," "bigoted," if they take a neutral position "they are chicken," and an opposite position, "radical." Being a leader is difficult. But after the year's over, the money spent, the students educated and the leaders battle-scarred, perhaps the evening sunset bathing the college in golden shades make a leader feel a little pride in his job. could probably blackmail half the school: instead she smiles and types news stories. Peg is the kind of person you hope the best for, but know secretly that with her talent she will always be a writer. Phil Morgan has huge pockets. He looks like a refugee from a rummage sale. Once he lost a roll of film, and didn't find it for two months. It was in his pocket. His smile will forever be accompanied in the minds of his fellow staff members with the smell of hypo and developer. Mark Hains came in to apply for sports editor one day, with almost no experience. Two days later, he took the whole load in stride. Quiet relentlessness pays. Mark learned a lot about journalism during the year, he also knows how to rollerskate. His dedication to sports is not to be underestimated. Not just every sports editor gets his rollerskating agenda published. THIS WEEK WE HONOR Tough as an old muleskinner, mean as a wasp, incisive as a steel trap, yet she collects rings like a pot-bellied cider barrel. Everybody respects "Bloody Mari," few want to. cross her. When they do, usually they make a great thunderous noise far away from her, which subsides gradually as they approach the Signpost office, and usually the first words they offer her are: "Uh, Marilyn, do you have a minute?" But it really wouldn't be fair to represent her as anything less than an idealist who fights for the things she really believes in. Someday she will be a mother of seven or eight screaming rug rats. But till then, she's the Boss and you can't hurt steel. Under Marilyn's reign, the Signpost has gone to a bi-weekly publication. It's moved into new offices, acquired new staffs, and received more scholarships. The new offices used to be the garbage pit, however, someone once stated that instead of burning the garbage, the Signpost was printing it. PICK UP YOUR SIGNPOST TWICE WEEKLY - TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Marilyn Larson, Mark Hains, Editor-in-Chief Sports Editor Lyle Karras, Brad Post, Business Manager Theatre Editor Peggy Parker, John Hart, Assistant Editor Student Government Darline Rogers, Editor Feature Editor Byron Wade, Phil Leavitt Academic Editor Columnist SOUR GRAPES As I understand it, the purpose of this assignment is to softly caress your minds with my typewriter. I have to write something that will be Quaint in five years or so when you get around to reading it. I can hear it now "Leevut?" Leevut? Oh, yeah, I remember him. Completely blew his mind in his senior year . . . .carted him away in the Woo-woo wagon. . . . He tried to attack a sledge hammer with a live ant. ... He was famous y'know . . . named a pot hole on Edvalson after him. This was the year that Weber was first able to involve large numbers of students in great activity. . . . The large numbers being every ethnic group on campus and the activity being, hating each other. Darline Rogers clocked in as feature editor. Work to some people is work. To Darline it is just something to do while waiting for something else to do. Prodigeous heaps of material have been printed under her authorship. Funloving and frolic mark her personality; not just anybody can spend a party on the floor. ... Of course, Darline is not just anybody. Someday, she'll go to the moon, be an undercover agent for the world court, design cities; now she is content to rebuild Weber State.