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Show 36 WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH Student Activities The student activity program prepares for social responsibility and leadership, and for appreciation of the cultural and aesthetic sources of enjoyment in leisure time. In the belief that fulfillment of the objectives of a junior college education are best realized when students are prepared for the fullest participation in life, for social responsibility, leadership, and appreciation of the cultural and aesthetic sources of enjoyment, Weber College encourages a student activity program which provides for such development. The Committee on Student Activities consists of four faculty members and six student representatives. This committee is responsible for calendaring all student activities, exclusive of athletics, and supervising all social activities. Assembly programs are educational and cultural in their nature. The general weekly assembly programs are prepared under the supervision and guidance of the Assembly Committee. The student body is encouraged to present many programs. It is the aim of the committee to design programs that are educational and cultural in their nature. Attendance at assembly is not compulsory. Club and associations serve interests within the student body. It is the policy of Weber College to encourage the organization of clubs and associations that serve varying group interests of a social, professional, and honorary nature. Each of the clubs of a strictly social nature is organized to serve a distinctive purpose. Each of the women's clubs is organized to serve a distinctive purpose. Otyokwa fosters worthy school citizenship, wholesome social life, and good scholarship; LaDianaeda furthers culture, beauty, and friendliness; Iota Tau Kappa helps each member to gain a well-rounded college life, socially and scholastically; Chanodo promotes happiness and good will among the unfortunate, friendliness among Weber College women and takes active interest in social activities of the College; Tiki Kapa Kapa promotes friendliness, hospitality, and good sportsmanship among the women of Weber College; and Sophvita was organized for the purpose of striving for wisdom and friendliness, and maintaining high ideals. Likewise each of the men's clubs is organized to serve a definite objective. Excelsior promotes the raising of college ideals; Phoenix studies student government and promotes student activities; Frenisti furthers aesthetic interests; Sigma Delta Pi aids and cooperates with the student administration in promoting activities of the College; Vikings increases participation in out-of-door activities and fosters development of good sportsmanship, fellowship, and scholarship; Skull promotes wholesome social activity and good fellowship, and Alpha Rho Omega was organized to build character by promoting friendship, culture, scholarship, loyalty, courage and fidelity. High standards and high scholarship are required for admission to social clubs. Membership in any social club is encouraged only for those students who show worthy school citizenship and good scholarship. Membership is limited to students of junior college standing who carry ten credit hours of work with an average grade of C. WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 37 Whip and Wildcat are service clubs. The Whip Club is an organization composed of outstanding sophomore girls. Its purpose is to work as an organized unit in supporting all college activities, and maintaining college spirit in the student body of Weber College. The Wildcat Club is an organization paralleling the Whip Club. It is composed of outstanding sophomore men. Its purpose is to work as an organized unit in supporting school activities and in creating and maintaining college spirit in the student body of Weber College. Professional clubs are organized by students pursuing a major subject. Students pursuing definite major courses organize themselves each year into professional clubs. The purpose of each major group organization is to promote high scholastic attainment and to ac quaint the student member with various phases of his chosen profession. Guest speakers are invited to address the clubs, and occasional excursions are made to institutions, or to investigate projects of an educational nature. The Future Teachers of America, the Engineer Club, the English Club, the international Relations Club, the Pre-medics, the Sociology Club, the Tri-Vesta Club (Home Economics), Gamma Nu (Secretarial), the Yeoman Club (Forestry), the Psychology Club, Geology Club, the Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society, constitute the roster of these organizations. Lettermen, Orion, Weber, and Phi Rho Pi are honorary organizations. The Lettermen's Club is an honorary organization, membership being based upon the point system according to activities and scholarship. The Weber Club is an honorary organization made up of meritorious students who have won student body awards. Most of the members are sophomores. The Orion Club is composed of ten to fifteen outstanding students of each sophomore class who have been selected on the basis of activities and scholarship to receive the highest award of the Associated Students of Weber College. Phi Rho Pi is a national honorary forensic fraternity, its membership being restricted to students receiving honors in debate and other speech activities of the College. Clubs and student body units sponsor a choice dance program. The social calendar is rich in its offering of planned affairs. One of the outstanding features is the high quality dance program sponsored by the active clubs and student body units of the College. Once a year each social club: Excelsior, Frenisti, Otyokwa, LaDianaeda, Chanodo, Sigma Delta Pi, Skull, Viking, Phoenix, Iota Tau Kappa, and Tiki Kapa Kapa, is host to a choice evening of social dancing. During the year different student body units sponsor traditional dances of an informal and formal nature. In the autumn are scheduled the President's Reception, the Associated Women Student's Ball and the Christmas Dance; in the winter quarter, the Associated Women Stu dents' Ball, the Associated Men Students' Dance, the Acorn Ball, and the College Prom; in the spring quarter, the Associated Women Student's Spring Formal, and the Reception to the Graduates. |