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Look upon my work, ye lowly, and despair

Look upon my work, ye lowly, and despair

Cole Eckhardt February 28, 2019

The wall has never been about national security. Trump’s drivel about Syrian suicide bombers infiltrating America via Tijuana aside, every step toward its construction has been evidence to the contrary. During...

From top: Flintlock, AR-15 and TIKAD Drone, each potentially the deadliest weapon of its time.

An advanced proposal

Cole Eckhardt March 24, 2018

Banning the AR-15 is the last argument American’s should be having. America’s rifle isn’t overpowered; in fact, considering the Second Amendment’s historical context, the AR isn’t...

Senate candidate, and former presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney meets and has his photo taken with students. (Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

Senate hopeful Mitt Romney talks to The Signpost along campaign trail

Cole Eckhardt March 14, 2018

A publicity entourage and security escort moved through charged crowds across Weber State University’s main campus March 13 as Senate hopeful Mitt Romney stopped along his statewide endorsement campaign...

President Charles Wight meets with the editors of The Signpost. (Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

The Signpost’s last chat with Chuck

Cole Eckhardt February 24, 2018

Chuck Wight didn't do a thing his first hundred days as president. He just listened.“If I’d have come in making decisions based on what I’d learned at other universities, that would have...

In response to our previous issue

In response to our previous issue

Cole Eckhardt September 30, 2017

The Signpost ran a column under the headline "National Felons League: The best team of criminals since 'The Longest Yard'" on Sept. 28, intended to assemble a hypothetical all-star team of NFL players...

(Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

It’s just Weber

Cole Eckhardt August 27, 2017

Let me paint you a scene. You're at a funeral, a family reunion — one of those occasions when you're obligated to retell your abridged life's story to a half dozen relatives you haven't seen for 10 years...

Longstanding Utah tradition returns in a blaze

Cole Eckhardt July 17, 2017

The Lindquist Pops Fireworks, sponsored by the Lindquist family of Ogden, returned to Weber State University for its 39th year on July 16.The New American Philharmonic performed a free, 60-minute concert...

A man pulling a book of the shelf at Weber States library might find a surprise. (GraphicStock.com)

Unsolicited Advice: Quick Draw

Cole Eckhardt April 14, 2017

Whenever you wade through the shallows of WS Confessions, I hope you realize that the degenerates posting these words are your classmates, acquaintances on campus — hell, maybe even a distraught...

Zenobias last look on Palmyra by Herbert G Schmalz (left) and Boadicea Haranguing the Britons by John Opie (right). (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

When in Rome, fight the power

Cole Eckhardt March 15, 2017

Figures like Sojourner Truth and Clara Barton have been proving their strength and integrity equal to that of men in America for over two centuries, but human history is full of real-life heroines of mythic...

Pāhoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii provide a small-scale model of the kind of massive floods associated with exponentially larger, more violent eruptions that would have led to cataclysmic changes in the environment that wiped out the majority of life on Earth. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

I think I remember the end of the world

Cole Eckhardt March 2, 2017

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the apocalypse, and I'm starting to think it's genetic. Humans have been imagining creative renditions of the end of the world for thousands of years. Christianity,...

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Clinging to the Vine

Cole Eckhardt November 9, 2016

Vine will be dead before the New Year. I’ve been listening to the first few bars of Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” on repeat and desperately choking back sobs every time I see a...

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Unsolicited Advice

Cole Eckhardt October 28, 2016

All source material comes from the Facebook page Weber State ConfessionsConfession: I just got employee of the year at my job but in reality I spend 8 hours trying to get away with doing nothing and drinking...

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