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WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
VOL 84 ISSUE 2
TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
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Student loan interest
rates to double in July
News in
Brief
Ogden to host
Damian Day
To honor former
WSU All-American
basketball player and
NBA Rookie of the
Year, Ogden City and
Weber State Athlet-
ics has teamed up to
put on Damian Lil-
lard Day, scheduled
for June 15, 2013. The
event will take place
at The Junction in
downtown Ogden,
beginning at 12:30
p.m.. The first 500
fans to arrive will re-
ceive Lillard’s auto-
graph. The event will
also feature music,
vendors, a ceremony
honoring and pre-
senting Lillard with a
key to the city, and a
Q-and-A session with
the star himself. The
event is free and open
to the public.
WSU one of top
sales programs
Weber State Uni-
versity has been
added to the Sales
Education Founda-
tion’s annual list of
Top University Sales
Programs for 2013.
The Sales Education
Foundation, an or-
ganization aimed at
furthering sales ed-
ucation and sales
programs, chose
WSU because of the
quality of its training
programs and oppor-
tunities for students,
especially students’
ability to pursue
bachelor’s degrees
in technical sales.
More information on
WSU’s technical sales
program is available
at http://weber.edu/
COAST/programs/
technicalsales.html.
WSU alumni
to hold golf
tournament
The Weber State
University Alumni
Association will host
the 12th Annual WSU
Alumni Golf Classic
on Friday morning.
The tournament is put
on each year to help
raise funds for stu-
dent scholarships, and
will take place at the
Barn Golf Course (305
W. Pleasant View Dr.,
Pleasant View). More
information can be
found online at www.
alumni.weber.edu.
Math, car show feature at
at annual Ogden arts festival
Weber State University’s mathematics department helps children create Spirographs at the Union Sta-
tion’s Ogden Arts Festival. The festival is always held the second weekend of June.
PHOTO BY TYLER BROWN | THE SIGNPOST
BY RAYCHEL JOHNSON
editor-in-chief |
The Signpost
Andrews
to assist
Wight
Starting July 1, new
federal student loan in-
terest rates are set to dou-
ble from 3.4 percent to 6.8
percent if Congress does
not take action.
The battle is ongoing
regarding government
raising interest rates on
student loans. Last year,
studentsalloverthecoun-
try cried out on Facebook
and Twitter, and by call-
ing their elected officials
with one message: “Don’t
double my rate.”
Students were able to
convince 186 Republi-
cans in the House and 24
Republicans in the Sen-
ate to work with Demo-
crats to keep student loan
rates at 3.4 percent, said
President Barack Obama
in his May 31 address to
students shown on www.
whitehouse.gov.
“Higher education
cannot be a luxury for
a privileged few,” said
BY SKYLER PYLE
asst. news editor |
The Signpost
The Union Station’s
Ogden Arts Festival is
typically the last place
anyone would encounter
arithmetic, but at the 10th
annual event this year,
math was a very import-
ant factor. Weber State
University’s mathematics
department teamed up
with the Ogden Arts Fes-
tival for the first time to
create a children’s activity
centered on mathematics
and art on Saturday after-
noon.
Angela Holbrook, a
mathematics student at
WSU, volunteered her
time at the math outreach
program at the Union Sta-
tion. She, along with other
students, helped children
to create Spirographs on
posters.
“It deals a lot with sym-
metry,” Holbrook said.
“It’s a lot of different an-
gles and repetitive with
the patterns to make de-
signs.”
Holbrook said these
posters will later be dis-
played in the mathemat-
ics department at WSU.
“It’s a way of showing
that mathematics is in
everything, including the
arts,” Holbrook said.
The festival was held
Friday and Saturday. Fri-
day was the 25th Street
BY RAYCHEL JOHNSON
editor-in-chief| TheSignpost
The Center for Diver-
sity and Unity’s Adri-
enne Andrews will now
be serving President
Charles Wight as the as-
sistant to the president
for diversity starting
July 1.
Currently the director
of the Center for Diver-
sity and Unity, Andrews
will continue to serve
in her current position.
Wight said Andrews is
charged with the effort
of increasing the diver-
sity and inclusion of not
just students, but every-
one at a university and
community level. Her
new duties will also in-
clude advising Wight as
well as the President’s
Council on diversi-
ty-specific issues.
Wight said that in or-
der for Weber State Uni-
versity to be a leader in
the community, the di-
versity of the students
and faculty needs to re-
flect the diversity of the
community the univer-
sity serves.
“If we don’t do that,
then we risk being iso-
lated from our commu-
nity,” Wight said. “It’s
really part of the inte-
gration of Weber State
into our larger commu-
nity.”
According to a stu-
dent characteristics
survey from 2010-11,
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Car Show, featuring 300
vintage and classic vehi-
cles ranging from Volk-
swagen buses to Ford
Mustangs.
The event kicked off
with the Plein Air compe-
tition on Thursday night.
Artists started on May 31,
painting different scenes
in Ogden only using nat-
ural daylight with no elec-
tronic assistance. There
was also a “quick draw”
Plein Air competition, in
which the paintings had
to be finished, framed
and ready for auction by
12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The festival was scaled
back this year and only
included 40 booths for
fine artists, as opposed to
65 artists last year. Usu-
ally, the artists will have
booths that encompass
25th Street from Grant
Avenue to the Union Sta-
tion, but this year, all the
artists gathered at the
Union Station.
Tracy Ehrig, a WSU
alumna and artist coor-
dinator for the festival,
said the decision to have
a smaller festival helps to
enhance the art in the lo-
cal area.
“We all love art; we’re
all artists who want to en-
hance the art scene here,”
Ehrig said.
Obama in the address.
“It is an economic ne-
cessity that every family
should be able to afford,
every young person with
dreams and ambition
should be able to access.”
Massachusetts Sena-
tor Elizabeth Warren, an
advocate and champion
on student loan reform,
has started a petition on
Moveon.org, which has
more than 440,000 sig-
natures for her first-ev-
er stand-alone bill, the
Bank on Student Loans
Fairness Act. Warren’s bill
would give students the
same interest rates as big
banks borrowing from the
Federal Reserve discount
window of 0.75 percent.
“Today’s graduates
carry more than $1 tril-
lion in debt, more than
all the outstanding cred-
it card debt in the whole
country,” said Warren in
her address to the presi-
dent, shown on Huffing-
tonpost.com.
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