COACH HARRIS RESIGNS

Following the loss, Velaida Harris ended her five-year tenure as head coach and stepped down thanking several administrators including former Athletic Director Jerry Bovee and Vice President Norm Tarbox

“When I was hired, I was charged with changing a culture, building community, raising academic standards, and graduating players. We did that. This is a basketball business, and my job was to produce wins. We fell short. I would like to thank every Wildcat that played for me, all our fans and my wonderful assistant coaches, who are some of the best,” Harris said.

By COOPER HATSIS Reporter

Weber State University has experienced a growth in Hispanic and Latino students over the past several years. WSU is working to become an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution with a strategized five-year plan. Helping to make sure that this five-year plan called Amplified comes to fruition is Yudi Lewis, the executive director of Hispanic Serving Institutions Initiatives. Before coming to WSU, Lewis worked at Utah Valley University, leading an initiative to increase the number of Hispanic and Latino students’ access to higher education.

“The emerging Hispanic Serving Institution initiative exists to increase the number of Hispanic and Latino students who are not only enrolling at Weber State University but are also graduating,” Lewis said. “The goal of eHSI is to streamline services to best serve, in this case Hispanic and Latino students, but also utilize this as a model to serve all student populations at Weber State.”

Some of these services available to students include internship opportunities as well as scholarships. This initiative is designed to make the process of transitioning from high school to college and then into the workforce easier for all students.

In the state of Utah, Hispanic and Latino communities make up 15% of the population. In Ogden alone, Hispanic and Latino communities make up 30% of the population.

“When you look at Hispanic and Latino representation in higher education, it is only 11%, so what we are hoping to do at Weber State is mirror the state’s Hispanic and Latino demographic of 15% by 2025,” Lewis said. “This is about enabling students’ dreams of getting a college education.”

Lewis is assembling a taskforce to help spread awareness of this subject matter around WSU and hopes to have students, faculty and community members be a part of this task force. Lewis believes collaboration with programs on campus and off-campus will greatly benefit eHSI.

“We will need everybody’s help to come up with the ideal definition of how we serve Weber State students,” Lewis said.

This initiative goes further than just the college level; eHSI also reaches out to the K-12 system. This model provides students with information and programming that students might not be aware of. Other universities such as Salt Lake City Community College and The University of Utah use a similar model to benefit Hispanic and Latino students.

Lewis is excited to work on the eHSI initiative at WSU, saying the resources and opportunities WSU is working to provide today are things she didn’t have access to when she attended college.

“We want to make sure that every student understands that we need their stories, and we value what they bring to the table,” Lewis said. “Here at Weber State, we are making dreams a reality.”

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By COOPER HATSIS Reportero

Weber State University ha experimentado un crecimiento de estudiantes hispanos y latinos en los últimos años. WSU está trabajando para convertirse en una institución emergente al servicio de los hispanos con un plan estratégico de cinco años.

Yudi Lewis, directora ejecutiva de Iniciativas de Instituciones de Servicio Hispano, ayuda a garantizar que este plan de cinco años se haga realidad. Antes de llegar a WSU, Lewis trabajó en Utah Valley University, liderando una iniciativa para aumentar el acceso de los estudiantes hispanos y latinos a la educación superior.

“La Iniciativa de la Institución de Servicio al Hispano emergente existe con el propósito de aumentar la cantidad de estudiantes hispanos y latinos que no solo se inscriben en la Universidad Estatal de Weber sino que también se gradúan de ella”, dijo Lewis. “El objetivo de eHSI, por sus siglas en ingles, es optimizar los servicios para servir mejor, en este caso a los estudiantes hispanos y latinos, pero también utilizar esto como modelo para atender a todas las poblaciones de estudiantes en Weber State”.

Algunos de estos servicios disponibles para los estudiantes incluyen oportunidades de pasantías y becas. Esta iniciativa está diseñada para hacer que el proceso de transición de la escuela secundaria a la universidad y luego a la fuerza laboral sea más fácil para todos los estudiantes.

En el estado de Utah, las comunidades hispanas y latinas constituyen el 15% de la población. Solo en Ogden, las comunidades hispanas y latinas constituyen el 30% de la población.

“Cuando observamos la representación hispana y latina en la educación superior, es solo del 11 %, por lo que lo que esperamos hacer en Weber State es reflejar la demografía hispana y latina del estado del 15 % para 2025”, dijo Lewis. “Se trata de hacer realidad los sueños de los estudiantes de obtener una educación universitaria”.

Lewis está reuniendo un grupo de trabajo para ayudar a difundir el conocimiento de este tema en WSU y espera que los estudiantes, profesores y miembros de la comunidad formen parte de este grupo de trabajo. Lewis cree que la colaboración con programas dentro y fuera del campus beneficiará enormemente a eHSI.

“Necesitaremos la ayuda de todos para llegar a la definición ideal de cómo servimos a los estudiantes de Weber State”, dijo Lewis.

Esta iniciativa va más allá del nivel universitario; eHSI también llega al sistema K-12. Este modelo proporciona a los estudiantes información y programación que quizás no conozcan. Otras universidades como Salt Lake City Community College y la Universidad de Utah utilizan un modelo similar para beneficiar a los estudiantes hispanos y latinos.

Lewis está emocionada de trabajar en la iniciativa eHSI en WSU y dice que los recursos y las oportunidades que WSU está trabajando para brindar hoy son cosas a las que ella no tenía acceso cuando asistía a la universidad.

“Queremos asegurarnos de que todos los estudiantes entiendan que necesitamos sus historias y valoramos lo que aportan”, dijo Lewis. “Aquí en Weber State, estamos haciendo realidad los sueños”.

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By ALMA BELL Reporter

As most of us know, March 12 was daylight saving for the spring. I personally hate daylight saving time.

My first issue is the “spring forward” part of daylight saving time. Now, for a few days my classes will feel like they are an hour earlier than before. The “fall back” part of daylight saving time isn’t as bad, because at least everything feels like an hour later.

Britannica stated that the origin of daylight saving time, or summer time as some of Europe calls it, was to give people an “extra” hour during the day for summer and to return to the standard time during the colder months.

The first recorded mention of this kind of idea was by Benjamin Franklin. The Franklin Institute said Franklin talked about daylight time in a piece of satire he wrote to the Journal of Paris. Franklin argued that by waking up an hour early in the summer, money could be saved due to not needing to light as many candles.

Daylight time was not implemented in Canada until 1908, and most of the world followed in 1916.

Moving on from my petty gripes with collectively shifting time, we no longer live in a society where preserving daylight is beneficial to everyone.

The communities that benefit the most from shifting around daylight are the agrarian communities, but even farmers are done with daylight saving time. grifolsplasma.com

Emily Baron Cadloff, a journalist for the Modern Farmer, wrote that the act of shifting the schedule messes with the circadian rhythm of the animals and isn’t super healthy for them.

As much as I love, and literally need, agriculturalists to survive, they only make up about 10% of employment in America. All I’m saying is, why should the rest of us that don’t rely on the sun have to shift our time around for them?

I will give daylight saving time some credit; it makes explaining what a social construct is easier.

Because we agreed upon it, the time is now different for a few months. That’s all a social construct is — an idea we just agree upon as a society, and it can change if the society agrees upon the change. I’ve got a solution. We can have city time and rural time. City time stays the same all year round and rural time can keep the daylight saving time system. The professions that need more sunlight can quietly observe by themselves. The farmers and the like who need extra time can keep it, and city slickers like myself will just sleep in throughout the summer.

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By GRETEL MONJAR Reporter

Weber State University’s Women’s Center invited the WSU community to celebrate Women’s History Month, or “Herstory” Month, this March. The center will be partnering with other organizations on campus to host several events to highlight the stories of women.

“This March, we’re honoring long-time traditions of voice, storytelling and sharing,” Paige Davies, director of the Women’s Center, said in an announcement on WSU’s website. “Women have long passed down stories through families, activism, leadership and other avenues. We value the wisdom and truths shared with us and hope to elevate the lived experiences of all women.”

Andrea Hernández, program coordinator for the Women’s Center program, said the Women’s Center is trying to connect more with international students.

“There’s always this disconnect between international students and domestic students,” Hernández said. “We want to figure out ways to bridge that and find ways to showcase … there’s a lot of similarities in our stories and our experiences. We want to create space to be able to have those conversations.” The International Student and Scholar