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Show Hm : if Wmr A Pretty Great State? ACROSS overcome 35 Spoke with 1rritates 6 Small bottle 11 European 12 Second of two 14 Above 15 Supplications 1 17 18 Proceed Lamprey 20 Fear 21 Weaken , 22 Projecting tooth 24 Finish 25 Diminutive suffix 26 Run aground 28 Diatribe 30 Weapon 31 Garden tool 32 Attempts to The Weekly Crossword Puzzle speech impediment 38 Gaelic 39 Edible seed 41 Otherwise 42 Damp 43 Poets 45 Sched. abbr 46 Half an em 47 More pitiful 49 Article 50 Small wave 52 Builds 54 Frocks 55 Mediterranean vessel DOWN Feel regret 2 Either 1 3 4 5 Demon Fat of swine Trapped 6 Begs 7 Difficult 8 Possessive pronoun 9 Near 10 11 13 16 19 21 23 By Calvin L Harrington By Brenda Lee Jones Aden Ross said Utah's slogan should be changed to "Gateway to the Middle Ages." Ross went on to say, "The Joke goes that when planes land in Salt Lake City, stewardesses tell passengers to set their watches back twenty years. Not so. Utah never made It to the 20th century, much less to the 1960's. Utah randomly exercises capital punishment, blindly capitulates to a pseudo-divin- e hierachy. If that doesn't qualify us for a 'special' place in the 12th century or a in Dantes 'Inferno,' our hypocrisy certainly does. Thinly disguised as pious paternalism, Utah's abuse of the young, the old and anything foreign is an abomination. More than content with its anachronistic Art Professor Don Doxey has been at Westminster for over teaching full-tim- e 25 years. When not estminster he is painting studio at home. Doxey has oil paintings galleries throughout Arizona, New Mexico. still life. teaching at on display in California and He specializes in Western 25 27 29 32 33 34 35 Worn away Compass point Greek letter 43 Nuts Drain on Forum Contest Utah-rrrrri- Chris Barber: "Utah, a pretty fake state." Issue 14January 31, 1989 Standard measure Peaceful Extras Females 36 Landed property 37 College officials 40 Transgress in his private Prior to teaching at Westminster, Doxey taught in the Salt Lake City public school system and at the Salt Lake City Art Center. He was asked, "If you could Utah's state slogan of 'A pretty, greatchange what would the change be and why?" state', The word pretty is not strong theocracy, Utah actually thrives on enough, Doxey said. "It's insipid and Just feudalism-politic- al, economic, social, doesnt cut it. A religious and psychological of the lowest better. Utah is angreat state would be COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE order. The only fitting slogan for this state incredibly great state, with all it has to offer." He also said he is 'Gateway to the Middle Ages.'" likes the idea of "Ski Utah." asked us for our pretty great slogan ideas? Ross is an adjunct instructor of After all. we is pretty great college students honors. She has taught over 50 different and should be able to think of some great, courses, had seven plays produced and pretty creative and original ideas. poetry published nationally, and taught at This is nothing to Joke about: It is a Westminster for six years during the last matter of pretty great importance. In early ice age. She has moved 44 times and was By Ron Farnsworth the state Chamber of Commerce January, once misquoted by a Forum reporter as endorsed the use of a new slogan. Val For the last couple of years, a pretty having been born in the worlds largest our lieutenant governor, described .Oveson, broom factory (Ross liked that so well that great (intentional deletion of the comma) this new slogan as being "pretty she adopted it). great." slogan has been used to represent this What, you ask, Is this pretty great new pretty, great state. Unfortunately, it has slogan thatmay is poised to displace the pretty, also generated a pretty great amount of great slogan that we, the pretty great controversy. This kind of controversy, citizens of this pretty, great state have however, is not all that bad compared to come to know and love? Vtah-rrrrrif- icl typical Utah controversy: Merrill Cook, fic? Oh, my heck, fer pumps, legislators, swindlers or mass The writing is on the wall: stupidl It is time murderers are not involved. .That's pretty for an We the citizens of a once uprising. great! pretty, great state, must give voice to our Back to the unfortunate side, you, me concerns that if this type of nonsense and the average LaJoe Blow Utah citizen are we're persists, going to start looking pretty also not involved. Why hasn't anybody darn peculiar to the rest of the nation, if sub-divisi- Ambassador Estimate Lassoed Deep yearning Biggest Spire NX. Spackman: Utah, land of the funny underwear. Dina Engemann: "Utah, a state of confusion." companion 44 Withered 47 Health resort 48 Soak, as flax 51 River in Italy 53 Symbol for cerium not the entire worldl A pretty great change is destined to occur In the slogan that this state uses to identify itself. Will we play a role in the choosing of this slogan, or will we experience a pretty great disappointment as we are left out of the choosing process once again? It is for this reason that we send out a desperate plea to you, the pretty great people of Westminster College: Create a decent slogan for Utah! Realizing that it must take a tremendous amount of thought, research and planning to create a terrrrrrific (or even pretty great) slogan, we will accept your ideas up until winter break on Feb. 27. We can't guarantee that this will generate any changes or support on a state-wid- e level, but we'll give it a pretty great effort. Who knows, by February we may have even decided to award some kind of a prize to the best entries. Lisa Kalantzes: "Utah, a state of pregnancy." ' Forum 5 |