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Medicine for mental health: Incarceration instead of medical care

Rachel Badali June 12, 2017

When the street is your home, a jail may be your only healthcare provider.Across the country, thousands of homeless people, many whom are suffering from mental illness, are met with little sympathy and...

A donation bin sits outside Weber State University’s Center for Community Engaged Learning, Shepherd Union room 327. The center is accepting donations of warm winter clothes through Dec. 12 for Ogdens Your Community Connection family crisis center and Youth Futures homeless shelter. (Emily Crooks / The Signpost)

Clothing drive seeks winter donations

Rachel Badali December 4, 2016

The sudden arrival of winter weather has highlighted the necessity of warm clothes. Weber State University’s Center for Community Engaged Learning is participating in a clothing drive to make sure...

Gregory Woodfield, WSUSA President, addresses other WSUSA executives in an open meeting on Oct. 5. Meetings have been closed to the public since Oct. 19. (Emily Crooks / The Signpost)

WSUSA executive meetings can be closed to public

Rachel Badali November 3, 2016

The WSUSA Executive Board can meet behind closed doors, according to legal counsel for Weber State University and The Signpost. During a meeting Tuesday, lawyers for both parties agreed that the...

The student senate voted in favor of creating a new senator position for gender equality and sexual diversity in March. The WSUSA Supreme Court has found the proposed senate seat to be unconstitutional. (Emily Crooks / The Signpost)

Gender equality student senate seat deemed unconstitutional

Rachel Badali October 23, 2016

The LGBT community at Weber State University isn’t represented in the student senate, despite efforts to give them a voice. In March, the student senate voted in favor of creating a new senator position...

Students volunteer through Weber State Universitys Center for Community Engaged Learning. (Source: Haille Van Patten)

Alternative Fall Break takes students to Zion

Rachel Badali October 16, 2016

Ten students are heading south to spend their fall break immersed in Zion National Park. The students will devote three days to volunteering in the desert as part of Alternative Fall Break, a program...

Painted T-shirts addressing violence against women hang along a clothesline above the Union atrium. The shirts were made for The Clothesline Project, hosted by Weber State Universitys Womens Center. (Emily Crooks / The Signpost)

Clothesline Project draws attention to effects of violence

Rachel Badali October 4, 2016

Dozens of T-shirts are hanging on clotheslines in the Shepherd Union Atrium and Stewart Wasatch Hall, each painted with a message to honor survivors of domestic and sexual violence. The string of...

Weber State University students hike Mt. Ogden during Homecoming 2015. (The Signpost Archives)

Mount Ogden hike continues homecoming tradition

Rachel Badali September 29, 2016

In 1922, a group of Weber College students made the steep hike up Mount Ogden. Now, Weber State University students are continuing the tradition. On Oct. 1, three days from the anniversary of when the...

Ogden seeks its first poet laureate, for which applications are due for Oct 1. (Source: Tribune News Service)

Ogden seeks its first poet laureate

Rachel Badali September 25, 2016

Ogden is searching for someone to serve as the poetic voice of the city. Applications are open now until Oct. 1 for the first-ever position of a poet laureate, an official ambassador of literary culture...

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