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Yaks in Nepal on the way to the Mount Everest base camp, 2024.

Harsh terrain and kindred hearts: WSU announces another trip to Nepal

Skyler Mundell, Contributer April 8, 2025

To kick off the 18th annual Ogden Climbing Festival, Weber State University’s Outdoor Program is announcing a new travel opportunity for service-minded students that will take them to the mountainous...

The historic downtown of the capitol of Poland, Warsaw

OPINION: Crossing cultures: My experience moving from Poland to Ogden

Wiktoria Kolodziejczyk, Reporter April 8, 2025

Moving from Poland to Ogden as an international student has been more challenging than I originally thought and required me to adjust to new surroundings and contrasts fast in order to be successful in...

Waldo as he prepares to defend everything he holds dear.

Waldo the Wildcat: Fallen protector of the campus geese

Haven di Atene, Reporter March 27, 2025

Waldo the Wildcat was the overused and underappreciated mascot of Weber State University for longer than most of its students have been alive. Waldo had witnessed many great presidents come into term...

AI result for Minecraft prompt.

OPINION: “A Minecraft Movie”: The greatest movie of 2025

Cooper Hatsis, Editor March 27, 2025

When talking about the greatest films of the 21st century there are many movies that come to mind. “The Social Network,” “No Country for Old Men,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — the...

Waldo will be best remembered for his action poses, which have been loved by fans for generations.

Obituary: Waldo the Wildcat, Oct. 1964 – March 25, 2025

Megan Swann, Editor March 27, 2025

Waldo the Wildcat was a dreamer; that’s what most people loved about him. He had a goal and a vision, and we are all worse off without his kind spirit in this world. It is with a heavy heart that we...

Damage in caused by the tornado in North Ogden (1951).

Ogden’s deadliest tornado you’ve never heard about

Bryce Odenthal, Contributor March 27, 2025

The Aug. 11, 1999, Salt Lake City tornado often overshadows a lesser known, more destructive tornado that just hit a few miles north of Weber State University. On June 23, 1951, at 5:33 p.m., an extremely...

A protestor shouts at a pro-Trump truck passing by.

Not My Presidents’ Day: Utahns protest at the Capitol

A.J. Handley, Asst. Editor February 20, 2025

Over a thousand Utahns filled the steps of the state Capitol on Feb. 17 in protest of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Many groups organized across social media that planned events at the Capitol....

McKell Coleman Summers, right, pictured with her mother Jennifer Coleman, left. Photo courtesy of Weber State University.

WSU nursing program receives national honor

Joe Traub April 13, 2018

Online ranking site Match College has selected Weber State University's nursing program in the top 35 four–year nursing schools in the nation, according to a press release on WSU’s website. According...

Tim Gray, World War II documentarian attends for an interview at Weber State University.( Mustafa Alshilati/ the signpost)

Documentarian resurfaces story of WWII battleship

Deborah Wilber April 6, 2018

The history of the USS Utah (BB-31) — informally known as "The Forgotten Ship" — may soon be brought out of the waters of history.A film by documentarian Tim Gray will tell the stories of the...

Five Craziest Headlines of the Year: A tooth, a treehouse and violent yoga

Five Craziest Headlines of the Year: A tooth, a treehouse and violent yoga

Michael Grennell May 11, 2016

I will love you tooth the end What better way is there to prove your undying love than to give your fiancee a piece of you? That’s probably what Lucas Unger was thinking when he proposed to his...

Five Crazy Headlines: Violent yoga, vegan aliens and an overdue movie rental

Five Crazy Headlines: Violent yoga, vegan aliens and an overdue movie rental

Michael Grennell April 3, 2016

If you don't let me do yoga, so help me I'll kill someone A United Airlines flight bound for Japan was forced to return to the airport at Hawaii after a passenger became violent after being told he...

Five Crazy Headlines: Babies for sale, a DUI hood ornament and a cartoon getaway van

Five Crazy Headlines: Babies for sale, a DUI hood ornament and a cartoon getaway van

Michael Grennell April 3, 2016

Will trade slightly used (almost new) baby for iPhone How much is a baby worth nowadays? In China, one was enough to buy a new iPhone and a motorbike. A young couple were arrested in China after...

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