[media-credit name=”Amanda Lewark” align=”alignright” width=”300″][/media-credit] How many people does it take to get Stewart Stadium ready for game days? It takes Joe Strand, event and guest relations manager, and approximately 250 other individuals. Strand is quick to point out that an event at the stadium is a “campus-wide partnership with many parties invested, putting in […]
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Fear is real, and many Americans revisited that fear over the weekend. Those of us who watched from 2,000 miles away as countless lives were mysteriously snuffed out in an hour and half remembered that sweaty-palmed, open-mouthed awe, that gripping horror, that complete lack of understanding that accompanies an event as rare as this. Over […]
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I am glad I decided to break down volleyball this week, because it’s one sport that I do know a lot about. I know the basics. It’s going to be easy for me to write the basics, because that’s all I know. Volleyball is played by either men or women. It is mostly considered a […]
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[media-credit id=14 align=”alignright” width=”204″][/media-credit] Ashley Orr spikes the ball in a game against Utah State University. Weber State University Volleyball traveled to Nebraska, only to leave disappointed. WSU competed in the Ameritas Players Challenge and fell to St. Mary’s College, Creighton University and University of Nebraska, all in just three sets. “We were really excited […]
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[media-credit id=11 align=”alignright” width=”300″][/media-credit] Weber State University’s Mike Hoke scrambles away from three defenders in the game against Utah State University. For 30 minutes, it looked like the Weber State University Football Team might pull an upset over the Utah State University Aggies, but everything changed after halftime. The Aggies ran to a 54-17 victory. […]
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A donation from Weber State University Campus Stores could mean the university will have a new iconic landmark as early as next summer. To celebrate its 100-year anniversary, Campus Stores will make a donation dubbed the “legacy gift” to fund the purchase of a 9-foot-high and 15-foot-wide boulder that will be etched with a flaming […]
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It’s Week 4 of this semester, and some students still don’t know where the library is. An unscientific poll — pursued by none other than yours truly — gave me a cause to worry. Last week, I asked no fewer than 27 students if they could tell me where the Weber State University library was […]
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A volunteer works in a field of more than 3,000 American flags, putting biographical information on each for every victim of the 9/11 attacks, as well as one each for every U.S. service casualty since 9/11, on Friday in Sandy, Utah. Ten years have now passed since Sept. 11, 2001, but many students and faculty at […]
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On Friday, the Nontraditional Student Center sponsored an activity where nontraditional students of all ages and backgrounds gathered for a movie, pizza and ice cream. The activity included a showing of the movie Inception, various types of Papa John’s pizza, as well as ice cream sundaes with all the toppings. Students in attendance came with […]
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Earlier this month, Off the Wall Comedy Improv performed its musical parody Lyin’ King, which is the fourth show in its series of improvisational musicals called Fraudway. Lyin’ King follows the classic Disney story of Simba the lion on his journey to become king as he takes his father’s place over the African plains and […]
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