VOL 86 ISSUE 44

WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
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Beloved holiday
ballet turns 60
By CECILY KISS

a&e correspondent

Ballet West will be

returning
to
Weber
State University Nov. 27
and 28 to perform Willam Christensens The
Nutcracker. This year
marks the 60-year anniversary of the production, which is the single longest running full
production in America.
There are so many
Nutcrackers going on
this time of year everywhere, but this production really is the best of
the best, Melissa Seamons, the marketing
manager for the Ogden
Symphony Ballet Association, said.
The Ogden Symphony Ballet Association is
bringing the production
to the Austad Auditorium in the Val. A. Browning Center for the Per-

forming Arts as part of

their Ballet West Series.
Weber State University
students can purchase
up to two tickets for $10
each, online or at the
Ogden Symphony Ballet
Association ticket office
the day of the show.
According to Sharon
Macfarlane, the executive director of the Ogden Symphony Ballet
Association, Ballet West
has been performing
Willam
Christensens
The Nutcracker in Ogden since 1955. They
began performing at
Ogden High School and
have since performed at
Weber State University
for over two decades.
Its an opportunity
for people in Ogden to
see a world-class organization perform at
Weber State University,
See BALLET page 4

PHOTO BY ARIANA BERKEMEIER | THE SIGNPOST

WSU hockey partnered with the Utah Food Bank to help feed hungry families in need.

Teaming up to help feed

families during holidays

By CHARLES BOWKER
sports editor

SOURCE: HARRY E. WALKER | MCT

Ballet West will be returning to Weber State University to The Nutcracker. This year marks the
60-year anniversary of the production, which
is the single longest running full production in
America. (Harry E. Walker/MCT)

Be thankful for
your life this year
TANOYA
POULSEN
columnist

Imagine feeling like

the only way to normalcy is through controlling what you eat.
No one can even begin
to understand what you
are going through, not
even those you love.
They think that you just
want to be thin or that
you cant control your
bingingthis is the agony of an eating disorder.
These illnesses are

SOURCE: TRIBINE NEWS SERVICE

immensely
complex
and there are many misconceptions surrounding them that I cannot
dispel in one story.
However, I can tell
you that eating disorders make you feel like
youre not enough and
that you dont ever deserve to be.
Some who suffer
from eating disorders
may eat too much and
others may eat too little; these eating habits
are all in an effort to
shield ourselves from
the world.
Eating disorders are
about regaining control
that you feel you have
lost. Its not about being
skinnier than the next
person. Its not about
food at all, but a lot
of people think it is.
Thats why the holidays are scary
for someone
struggling
or
recover ing
See EATING page 4

On Friday the Weber

State mens hockey team
partnered with the Utah
Food Bank and local SUBWAY franchises to help
collect food and prepare
for the holiday season.
We are incredibly
grateful that SUBWAY
Restaurants and college
students across the state
will be working togeth-

er to help us fight hunger, Utah Food Bank

Chief Development Officer Ginette Bott said in
a press statement. Being
able to reach out to students, our next generation of donors, will help
us feed Utah families facing hunger now and into
the future.
According to statistics
compiled by the Utah
Food Bank, one in seven
Utahans will be at risk

of missing a meal today. Of the nearly three

million people who live
in Utah, thats almost
423,000 people per day.
Even more concerning is
the fact that one in five
Utah children are unsure
where their next meal
will come from.
For Fridays event,
SUBWAY offered a promotion: The first 1,000
people who brought a
nonperishable food item

to the game would receive a gift cart good for a

free 6-inch sub from SUBWAY redeemable at any
SUBWAY in the state of
Utah. Weber State is one
of several colleges across
the state of Utah that
joined with the food bank
to help fill their stores for
the holiday seasons.
After hearing about
Utahs food insecurity

See FOOD BANK page 4

Blankets made from the heart

By MICHAEL GRENNELL
news editor

The Weber State University chapter of the

American Association of
University Women came
together on Tuesday to
make blankets for the
Your Community Connection Family Crisis
Center.
We are tying blankets
for the YCC, and with that
we are watching a film
called Iron Jawed Angels
which is about women
gaining the right to vote
in America, said AAUW
President Kylie Peterson.
AAUW has done this activity for a couple years
now. We always have a
different film and a different number of participants, but to donate to
the YCC every year has
been something that our
club has held very close
to our hearts.
Peterson
said
the
AAUW is a national club
that includes people in
local communities and
college campuses that
promotes
education,
rights and safety for
women in college.
The
movie
shown
during the event, Iron
Jawed Angels, stars Hilary Swank and Margo Mar-

PHOTO BY MICHAEL GRENNEL | THE SIGNPOST

The American Association of University Women tied blankets for families in crisis.
tindale; it is based on the
1917 Womens Suffrage
movement that eventually led to women in the
United States gaining the
right to vote. Iron Jawed
Angels, was originally
shown at Sundance Film
Festival in 2004.
Communication majors Janna Green and
Emily Orozco were at the
event, helping to tie blankets while enjoying the
movie.
I
actually
heard
(about) it from Janna,
Orozco said. And were
both in a psychology for
women and gender class
and were required to do
some service that has
something to do with
women, so we decided to
volunteer here.

Green said she reached

out to the womens center for help finding some
way to complete her required service project.
I was emailing the
womens center and asking them about events
that we could help out
at, and this one seemed
to be a good event and
worked out well with our
schedules, so we decided
to come out and help,
said Green.
The blankets that were
tied at the event will
be donated to the Your
Community
Connection Family Crisis Center
in Ogden. According to
the YCCs website, for 69
years the organization
See BLANKETS page 4

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