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THREE NEW BASKET BALL PLAYERS SIGN WITH WSU
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DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEWS?
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1. Which member of President Trump’s cabinet resigned July 12 under scrutiny of a case tried in 2008? a. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State b. Alex Acosta, Secretary of Labor c. Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development d. Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy 2. What four items were found in a stolen vehicle after it had been pulled over by police in Oklahoma?
a. Bud Lite, radium and two beach balls b. An acoustic guitar, a 32-inch television, a scythe and a large replica dinosaur c. Whiskey, a gun, a rattlesnake and radioactive uranium d. A microwave, a parrot, a deck of tarot cards and the top of a mannequin 3. The popular Utah Beer Wasatch Brewery’s Polygamy Porter is being sold in 20 states. Which state banned the sale of the beer?
c. South Dakota d. Georgia 4. Facebook has repeatedly faced accusations of privacy violations. What was the fine that the FTC handed down to Facebook? a. $2 billion b. $3 billion c. $4 billion d. $5 billion
a. North Carolina b. Alabama
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Weber State University’s Outdoor Program will host Wildcat Outdoor Welcome, a backpacking and climbing event in the high Uintas near Ruth Lake. Incoming first and second year students are welcome and admission is $40.
There will be a WSU night with the Ogden Raptors for members of the WSU Alumni Association. Ticket prices vary and can be purchased to include a pre-game barbecue picnic at Lindquist Field.
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The 85th annual Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo will run July 19 and 20 as well as July 22 through 24. The event is ranked as one of the top five large outdoor rodeos in the PRCA and will take place at Ogden Pioneer Stadium.
WSU and the YMCA will host “Outdoor Explorers,” an event to help students learn about outdoor science and nature. Participants will meet at 8 a.m. in Tracy Hall Science Center.
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WSU STANDS ATOP THE BIG SKY
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After an impressive athletic and academic year for the Weber State University athletic department, WSU claimed the 2018-19 Big Sky Conference Presidents’ Cup. Each year, the Presidents’ Cup promotes commitment to the school’s overall success both on the field and in the classroom. “Weber State excels at promoting the success of our students in their academic and extracurricular activities, and the Big Sky Conference Presidents’ Cup is another manifestation of that,” WSU President Dr. Brad Mortensen said in a press release. The cup is awarded annually to the program that succeeds athletically and academically, and is measured by a variety of categories.
“I’m very proud by the effort put forth by our student-athletes, coaches, athletics department, staff, broader range of faculty and boosters in the Weber State family for contributing to this great recognition,” Mortensen said. The regular-season team standings in eight of the 14 spots make up the athletic tier. Points are also awarded for men’s and women’s cross country, indoor track and field and golf by their finish at the Big Sky Championships. As far as for the academics, the tier measures the academic progress rate (APR) from the previous year and each team’s grade point average in Big Sky-sponsored sports. After winning the first two cups in 2003 and 2004, Weber State added a league-leading fifth cup in the 17-year history of the award. “We are thrilled to win the 2018-19 Big
Sky Conference Presidents’ Cup,” Director of Athletics Tim Crompton said in a press release. “This honor shows the tremendous commitment by our athletes both on the field of play and in the classroom.” The school year Weber State claimed Big Sky Championships in football, soccer and softball, both the football and soccer teams advanced to the NCAA Championships. “This award is shared by all of our amazing student-athletes, as well as our faculty, administration, coaches, staff and supporters,” Crompton said. “We could not achieve this success without all of their support. This is a terrific honor for Weber State University.” Weber State edged out Montana State by just a half a point as Northern Colorado finished in third, one point behind MSU. A total of 114 teams from across the conference recorded a 3.0 GPA or higher,
with all Big Sky members posting at least a 3.0 department-wide GPA. “I would like to congratulate the student-athletes, coaches and administrators of Weber State for their outstanding efforts in the classroom and in their support to earn the Presidents’ Cup award for the 2018-19 school year,” Big Sky Commissioner Tom Wistrcill said in a press release. “An award like this takes a team effort, and they rose to the occasion.” Weber State will showcase the Presidents’ Cup trophy on campus for the 2019-20 school year. In the 17-year history WSU has claimed the cup in 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009 and now 2019. Comment on this story at signpost.mywebermedia.com
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SIERRA HAWKINS Commentary
After I read that Emma Gee, a track and cross country runner at Brigham Young University, came out as bisexual, I was happy for her, but I still felt a sense of unease. When I interviewed Gee, she talked about how she felt happier after coming out. She had talked to multiple people: her coaches, her teachers, her bishop and administrators, and told them she was bi. Gee created a safety net in case someone reported her for violating BYU’s honor code. Gee gave my number to a BYU alumni, Kyle Manwaring, who was out as gay during his last year at BYU. And from my interview with him, he gave me a similar story to Gee’s. He went to administrators and teachers he trusted and came out to them first before coming out to everyone else, building himself a safety net and support group, just in case he was reported. Neither of them feared expulsion, and both of them said they loved BYU. However, they separately mentioned a sense of
paranoia and anxiety because of the culture surrounding BYU’s honor code. The honor code is a code of conduct students at BYU have to follow. It is much stricter than our code of conduct here at Weber State since every student is expected to live to LDS standards. It controls how students dress, how they act and what they drink. BYU’s online policy page goes into detail about how long men’s facial hair can be, how long women’s skirts and dresses can be, and of course, homosexual behavior. Except, as of this writing, BYU’s policy page doesn’t quite define what that looks like. It says, “Homosexual behavior includes not only sexual relations between members of the same sex, but all forms of physical intimacy that give expression to homosexual feelings.” I understand sexual relations being in violation of the honor code; premarital sex between two straight people also violates the honor code. But the language “all forms of physical intimacy” is pretty broad. Two women holding hands could be a violation. A kiss between two people of the same sex is a violation. Technically, a man smacking another man on the butt should be a violation, but is probably ignored since this homoerotic act is rampant in sports and BYU loves their football players. Dating might be okay, so long as the two people never touch each other, ever. But there is no doubt there’s a disparity between how straight-appearing and queer-appearing couples are treated. This unequal treatment bugs me as a queer woman, but I am more unnerved at the culture the honor code creates for all students, straight and queer. Everyone who attends BYU is encouraged to report honor code violations. It says so in the “Violation Reports and Privacy” section: “Anyone may refer a student to the Honor Code Office for reported violation(s) of the Honor Code, whether the alleged conduct occurred on or off campus.” It doesn’t matter where this violation
happened; a student at BYU can be called in to the Honor Code Office, which oversees the violations. And, until recently, the person who reported the violation could remain anonymous. This creates a culture of paranoia at BYU, where everyone has to constantly keep up appearances no matter where they are. Any slip up could result in being called into the Honor Code Office. Consequences from being called in to the Honor Code office range from nothing to expulsion. If the Honor Code Office was known for being forgiving, the atmosphere for BYU students would be very different. But, as many stories on the Instagram account Honor Code Stories report, going to the Honor Code Office is oftentimes humiliating and cruel, even if the student turned themself in or repented with their religious leader already. I’m glad that the policies were updated on July 11 because student voices at BYU demanded a change. Now students are presumed innocent until proven guilty. They will receive an explanation of why they are being called in before an investigation begins. They will know who reported the violation, and have the option to bring support with them to the interview. However, all of these updates don’t change the fact that students at BYU have to worry about the wrong person seeing them with a beard at home, or reporting them for “forms of physical intimacy that give expression to homosexual feelings.” This is what bothers me about the honor code: students at BYU can’t fully trust each other if they have to constantly keep looking back over their shoulders at each other. In essence, BYU functions as a panopticon, a form of prison surveillance coined by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. A panopticon is a series of prison cells arranged in a circle around a single guard’s room. The guard can see out, but the inmates can’t see in. Inmates don’t know if they’re being watched or not, and so, theoretically, must always be on good behavior. Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, took this idea further. Society, according
to him, functions like a panopticon. Each individual member of society is both a guard and inmate and polices themselves and each other. While this can create internalized good behavior, it can also create paranoia and anxiety. Unfortunately, it looks like BYU has created an atmosphere of paranoia and anxiety. At least that's what it looks like to an outsider. The honor code doesn't incentivize upholding these strict standards, it incentivizes not getting caught or completely avoiding anyone who goes to BYU, just in case they have stricter standards than you and found you in violation of the honor code. This doesn't last just a year or is only on BYU campus. This behavior is expected for four years, on- or off-campus, and you are always being watched. Depending how far a student is in their schooling, transferring credits could be impossible without losing precious time or money. There are other universities LDS students could go to, but it's not like there aren't incentives to go to BYU or its other campuses like BYU-Idaho or BYU-Hawaii. Tuition for a semester at BYU-I is roughly $2,059, compared to Weber State University's $2,446 a semester. That's about an extra $500 freed up for bills or board. BYU has great academic programs, and everyone in Utah has been hearing about BYU's football team since they attended elementary school. But for me, the environment of anxiety and lack of trust the honor code creates does nothing but hurt the prospects of potential students, especially if they're LGBT. Since I am not LDS anymore and don’t attend BYU, I’m not sure how to change the culture surrounding the honor code without removing the LDS standards. The current changes are good, but there's a reason why the panopticon is criticized as a form of surveillance and BYU students protested how the honor code operates. I understand why the honor code exists, but it seems to only control and punish BYU students. Comment on this column at signpost.mywebermedia.com
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The Weber State University women’s basketball will welcome freshmen Jadyn Matthews and Vicky Parra to the team along with junior college transfer Aloma Solovi as the team begin preparations for the 2019-20 season. The three recruits in the spring signing class join four others who signed on to the program in the fall of 2018. Head coach Velaida Harris said that although the roster is young, with 9 out of 15 players being underclassmen, she expects improvement on the court. “We made great strides in the classroom and in terms of our culture,” Harris said. “We have more players and will have a more competitive atmosphere.” Matthews, a 5’11” forward from Enter-
prise High School in Redding, California, finished her senior season with the Hornets with an average of 21.9 points and 10.2 rebounds per game. She was named the MVP of the Northern Section, which takes in a large portion of the inland area of northeastern California. Matthews will study sports psychology and performance during her time at Weber State. She hopes to bring a positive attitude and energy and to contribute in the best ways for both her team and her coaches. “The coaching staff and players all welcomed me with open arms and it felt like a home away from home,” Matthews said. “Coach V’s mentality and vision for building this program also had me bought in.” Harris expressed excitement about Matthews’ potential, saying that as she practic-
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es and gets into the gym, she will be able to flourish and reach a high ceiling. Parra joins the Wildcats after competing for Valencia Basket in the under-18 league in Spain. She graduated from IES Conselleria High School in Valencia, finishing with 10.1 points and 9.3 rebounds per game. Parra plans to major in physical therapy and chose Weber both for its athletics and its academics. “Apart from the enormous trust on me, they had the studies that fit with me,” Parra said. “It was the only university that I liked in both studies and basketball. I couldn’t let it pass.” Harris anticipates Parra will add some size and skill to the Wildcats’ roster, with her hand- and footwork. Solovi brings a local flair to the Wildcats’ signing class. Although she arrives at We-
ber as a transfer from Sheridan College in Wyoming, she grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from East High School. With Solovi, the Wildcats gain a junior guard who averaged 9.3 points, three assists and three rebounds per game in two seasons with the Generals. “I chose Weber because the people and coaches are a great support system and are building a culture that I know I can help be a part of,” Solovi said. Harris anticipates that Solovi’s two years of JUCO basketball will bring leadership to the team as she joins the program. The Wildcat women’s basketball season tips off November 5 against Pac-12 powerhouse UCLA in California. Their home opener takes place on November 9 against Portland. Comment on this story at signpost.mywebermedia.com
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NATIONAL “LIGHTS FOR LIBERTY” PROTEST By SHARON VALVERDE VARGAS Reporter
According to USA Today, over 700 cities participated in the Lights for Liberty protest on July 12; Ogden was one of those cities. The community gathered to express their thoughts and feelings toward what is currently happening at the U.S. border camps. Bobbie Kawacki, an attendee from Ogden, recited her poem “Silent Screams.” “Reality was their danger zone. Trump’s shameful secret must be kept, so silently the children wept,” Kawacki read. “Held captive by the awful truth, that robbed their innocence and their youth. Escaping to a world of dreams, blocking out the silent screams.” The protest, held in front of the Ogden Municipal Building, opened with Arlene Szalay singing “If not now” by Carrie Newcomer. Protesters joined, singing along. The song brought hope when Szalay sang
“if not now, tell me when.” Angela Urrea hosted the protest. She argued that the correct way to describe the U.S. border camps is to call them “concentration camps.” She described Donald Trump and his administration’s messaging about the camps as propaganda. Margaret Kluthe, a retired pediatrician, discussed the worry of emotional trauma, physical dangers like physical and sexual abuse, neglect and death. “We need to keep screaming until this ends,” Kluthe said. Luis Lopez, an Ogden city council member, is a Mexican immigrant. He said he has benefited from the blessings of this country. “I know we are here preaching to the choir. We are all here for the same thing. We are all here to unite (against) an atrocity,” Lopez said while holding back tears. Malik Dayo, a community activist, said the border camps are dehumanizing. He
spoke about a report he heard of sexual exploitation. According to NBC News, there is currently an investigation after a 15-year-girl from Honduras accused a border patrol agent of groping her during a routine-pat down. The girl said the agent laughed and was speaking to other officers as they watched. Toward the end of the protest, Urrea had attendees point their candles or phone flashlights to the south. “We are letting these children know that they are not forgotten. They are welcome in the United States, and we are here to tell them the beacon of hope and freedom is shining for you,” Urrea said.
People gather at the Ogden Municipal building in protest of the U.S. border camps on July 12.
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Every year, the Lindquist Family hosts the Pops Concert at Weber State University. This year, 16 cannons run by the Cannoneers of the Wasatch again accompanied the New American Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” similar to last year’s performance. The New American Philharmonic performs a free, hourlong concert at 9 p.m. at WSU’s Ada Lindquist Plaza each year. The event is attended by tens of thousands each year. At approximately 10 p.m. each year, attendees are able to witness one of the largest fireworks displays in Utah set to a symphonic score, and this year was no different. Comment on this story at signpost.mywebermedia.com
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JENNIFER GREENLEE Commentary
How much would you pay to stay alive? For millions of Americans with chronic illnesses, the number continues to climb higher and higher. Health is not something you can put a price tag on, even though many drug companies are trying — and that price tag is high. One such medication is insulin. The price for insulin is so high, some who have diabetes or have a loved one with diabetes are banding together and traveling to Canada and so they can buy insulin there. The trip has been dubbed the “Caravan to Canada,” and has attracted national attention: Vermont senator Bernie Sanders will be joining the latest trek. This is the second caravan of its kind in less than a month. This second route started in Minnesota and wound through Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. The route
ended in London, Ontario, where insulin was initially discovered, according to The Washington Post. The purpose of a longer drive is to help raise awareness for the skyhigh insulin prices. The cost of insulin in the U.S. has risen 197 percent over the last seventeen years according to the 2016 study on insulin prices published in JAMA. The study showed that one milliliter of insulin cost $4.34 in 2002. That same medication cost $12.92 in 2013. A single vial of insulin costs an average of $340, according to CBS News. However, many pay more than $400. Depending on the person and severity of diabetes, patients use one to six vials of insulin per month. In Canada, the cost is much lower, about $30 a vial, even for those coming from another country to purchase the drug. This is what prompted the “caravan” to make their way across the border to buy several — up to ten — vials of insulin. The reason many couldn’t by more is that it is illegal to bring more than a three-month supply of insulin across the border. Approximately 30 million Americans live with diabetes in the United States, with 1.5 million Americans receiving a new diagnosis annually. For 7.4 million of those Americans living
with diabetes, insulin is not a luxury that can be done without, according to a memo released by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. But rationing insulin, or even doing without, is becoming increasingly common. And people are dying from it. In Jan. 2019, Alec Smith-Holt died after falling into a diabetic coma. His mother, Nicole Smith-Holt, began advocating for Type 1 diabetics after discovering he had been rationing his insulin when he was no longer on his parents’ insurance. For Alec, the average monthly costs for insulin and supplies was around $1,300. He never reached out to say he was struggling to pay for his life-saving medication. The same medication that cost Alec $1,300 to purchase costs between $2.28 and $6.34 to produce, according to the same memo. Unfortunately, it’s not just insulin that has seen abhorrent price hikes. 3,400 name-brand drugs raised their prices in the first six months of 2019, according to CBS. The average price increase was 10.5 percent. By comparison, inflation only increased 1.79 percent. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 29 percent of patients are skipping their medication because of the cost.
62 percent of Americans take at least one prescription and 24 percent take four or more prescriptions. 29 percent of those who take prescription medications have not taken medicine as directed because of the cost. For those of us who take a prescription and wonder why the price is so high, it’s partly due to an “inelastic market.” This means that there is no competition or incentive to walk away. The alternative to not purchasing the medication is little to no quality of life or in some cases, even death. I say us because I take more than four medications on a daily basis. I have a biologic injection I take bi-monthly for Crohn’s disease. That injection, Stelara, would be $23,000 without insurance, according to the receipt I received with the two-by-two, insulated box that contains the drug makeing it possible for me to go to work and school. It’s so much money that it takes a month to get approved by the insurance company before you can even begin. This is a medication that allows me to live a functional life. It doesn’t stop my symptoms, but it lessens them. Before I was diagnosed, I had to quit my job in high school because I was in the hospital three times in two months.
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That said, unlike diabetics who need insulin daily, I won’t die if I don’t get my prescription — at least not right away. Even before that diagnosis, I found myself having two abdominal surgeries at 14 and 16. For that, I used to take a quarterly injection, Lupron. It was $900 after insurance. I didn’t have a job at the time and my family couldn’t afford it. I stopped taking it and just hoped that doubling the oral medication would be enough, even though it had already proven it wasn’t. Lupron was supposed to help make sure I can have kids when I want to. I still can’t afford both medications. Yet, there’s nothing that the average person can do. You can’t bargain with the drug companies. They have all the cards, and the cards are patients’ lives. There are two options: pay whatever they ask or, in many cases, don’t take it and suffer or die. Drug companies are profiting off patients pain, disability and dysfunctional organs. Based on the current rate of increase, a study in the Jama Network Open journal found many largely prescribed medications would continue to double every seven to eight years. And there’s no sign of it slowing down. Even lawmakers are having a hard time
controlling the prices. A Senate committee met with top executives from seven major pharmaceutical companies. These executives said that they could not, or more accurately would not, lower the prices of commonly-used prescription drugs, even though they admitted that they control the prices. And for the lawmakers, it’s all just politics. One potential solution is transparent pricing on advertising. We’ve all seen the commercials; they don’t contain much information beyond instructing you to not use the medication if you’re allergic to it. By advertising the price of the medication on the commercials, it could dissuade the rapid price hikes and ridiculous pricing. This almost became a reality, until on July 11, a federal judge blocked the new requirement that drug companies disclose their prices in television ads, according to The New York Times. President Trump proposed a price-disclosure requirement for medication commercials — on account of his reelection. However, the drug companies Merck, Eli Lilly and Amegen argued Trump was violating the companies’ First Amendment rights and would “confuse” patients about the
difference between list price and the price insurance companies are paying. The court ruled in the companies favor, although it’s clear Big Pharma wasn’t doing anything out of the goodness of their hearts. Another solution proposed by the population of a survey done through the Kaiser Family Foundation was allowing patients to get less expensive drugs from Canada. Instead of having people physically crossing the border to buy vials of insulin, patients could have it shipped internationally — which would still be cheaper than purchasing it through the United States, especially without insurance. This solution has also been proposed by Trump, as another way to fulfill a campaign pledge to continue his reign. Trump has hinted that he has turned his focus to tying drug prices to those set by European governments — price control with a different name. Of course, if he called it price control, he couldn’t call himself Republican. These solutions, in all likelihood, won’t come to fruition. But one solution that could is for people to call for lawmakers to jump over the abyss of the aisle and make policies to help patients. Dr. Eric Topol, director and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute,
wrote that an innovative solutions need to find appropriate price points for patients while rewarding drug manufacturers. But this doesn’t mean that the federal government shouldn’t be looking at the abuse patients are taking from the pharmaceutical industry. And with the federal government dragging its feet, Colorado has taken the problem into its own hands. Colorado has already begun by capping out-of-pocket, monthly expenses for insulin at $100. The problem is that insurance companies are absorbing the cost, so this doesn’t impact those that are uninsured. Federal policy could begin to unravel the damage done to patients. The federal government would be able to put monetary limits on how much Big Pharma can charge, where states cannot. Capping prices through federal regulation may be the only solution to a rapidly-expanding problem. Without intervention, even patients with a regular income and insurance will be priced out of paying for life-saving medication. Comment on this story at signpost.mywebermedia.com
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1. b. Alex Acosta, Secretary of Labor. The announcement of Alex Acosta’s resignation came July 12 after Jeffrey Epstein was once again brought up on sex trafficking charges. Acosta was the original federal prosecutor who tried Epstein in 2008 for similar charges. Many have hailed this as a victory for Acosta’s alleged mishandling of the 2008 case. The current charges against Epstein include sexually abusing underage girls, with the accusations including girls as young as 14, according to NPR.
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4 d. $5 billion. The FTC voted to approve a $5 billion fine against Facebook for privacy violations. This fine will be largest ever handed down by the FTC, if the Justice Department’s review leaves the fine
without adjustment, according to KSL. Facebook made $56 billion last year and had already set aside $3 billion in anticipation of a fine, with the expectation of having to pay up to $5 billion, according to a statement
the company made in April. Nothing in the report, including limits on user privacy, has been announced beyond the monetary amount of the fine. Comment on this story at signpost.mywebermedia.com
2. c. Whiskey, a gun, a rattlesnake and radioactive uranium. A pair of alleged car thieves were pulled over during a routine traffic stop in Oklahoma, when the police found a timber rattlesnake in the vehicle, according to the Independent. After investigation, police found the whiskey and the container of uranium. The driver, Stephen Jennings, told police he was trying to create a super snake. 3. a. North Carolina. The Polygamy Porter was rejected and subsequently banned from North Carolina by the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission because “polygamy is illegal,” according to CNN.
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