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Show o whats up with all this Junior, English I love it. I think it is so pretty. the Rockies. . Senior, business I think we need if, but I think we need it to stay in the mountains! I guess we just have to live with it. Its winter in by Blessing Ream Photos by Temmie Fleming Forum staff. reporter Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow! by Blessing Ream Forum staff writer My parents have a picture of me when I was 4 years old standing in a snow drift up to my neck. They always talked about until that snowstorm as The Big One now. Now, 18 years later, I once again can stand in snow that reaches my neck. True, Im only 5 feet tall, but enough already! The snowfall in the last, week broke records, as if you havent noticed. Everyone is talking about all of this white stuff - hey, we were even on CNN! ' You know it must be a good snow storm when we get an extra Monday off from school. Some people even managed to weasel their way out of work. I, unfortunately, was not so lucky. Personally I love the snow as long as I dont have to drive anywhere. I have noticed that a lot of Utah drivers are still crazed lunatics behind the wheel despite the icy roads and zero visibility. So I try to stay off the streets as much as possible. Then theres the parking problem especially on campus. The first day back to school after the Mother Of All Storms, the north lower parking lot looked like a bumper car amusement park ride. There was absolutely no order to the madness. I stayed on campus all day just so I didnt have to try ti naneuver my way out of the mess. Ski fanatics with their Pray For Snow bumper stickers have to be thrilled. The states ski industry is booming, at least when the canyon roads are open and free from avalanche danger. The call of our Utah powder even lured me to the slopes after three years of total abstinence from skiing. It took a couple of days for all of my appendages to thaw out, but I had a great - time. I guess Denise White Assistant math professor If I had time to ski Im sure it would be killer skiing, but all I have time to do is fight my way out of the parking lot. .ToddNeilson Kira Earl it doesnt really matter if I enjoy all of this record breaking snow or not. I live in Utah, so I have to at least accept it. But the next person who says were in a drought gets smacked. Dating in Zion.2 ... Star Trek shows offer a favorable, if Continued from page be acceptable! But every club I enter is . dominated by the crazy, mustachioed, aging, single guys on the rebound from their third divorce. Theyve set on the club scene like a plague of locusts, most young guys like older women), but their male counterparts are fairly protective. The last thing on earth they want to see is some young buck moving in on their turf, and since most of the guys have gun racks in their pickups, youre putting your life on the line when you tres- pass on their turf. Now I know there are going to be a lot of people who say that Im looking in the wrong places, but where else do you look? The supermarket? Hell, I dont shop, I live at home, and Ill be damned if Im going to ' hang out in the Smiths produce section with a lonely smile on' my face. Women who get picked up at grocery stores are either desperate or into perverts. The laundromat? No way! After 10 minutes of listening to those washers buzz. Im ready to take a life, not create one. My mother says I should meet women at church, but that means driving to the Cathedral of the Madeline, and Id feel stupid picking up on girls while theyre waiting for confession. Suppose I did meet girls at church. After the priest heard a few of their confessions, I doubt hed look forward to seeing me every Sunday. Some people wonder why I dont meet girls at school. I do, but most of them read the newspaper, which mins my chances. Many of my friends at the U try to get me to hang out up there because there are a lot of women. But unrealistic, view of humans in the future by Dave Neisler Forum staff writer j As Ive studied various ancient civilizations for the past semester. Ive asked myself many times what it is that future cultures will find most representative of ' " our society. v America in the 90s seems to be devoid of anything which would send a favorable depiction of us into the future. Sure, there arc some progressive forces in the world: Greenpeace, U2, etc., but these are forces which react against the ugliness of our world. These would give away its true nature. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the television scries StarTrck would be our best bet to leave a favorable impression on anyone digging us up in the ' , future.' ' civilizasame future that time At the tions condemn us for poisoning entire continents and killing everything in sight (including each other), they will be forced to sec Star Trek as an expression of our somewhat good intentions. The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise should serve as our ambassadors to the future. They will show that even as we lived in a wasteland of our own creation we continued to hope that the future would not be as dark. Embodied in Captain Kirk and crew are all of the qualities that most of us would probably hope to be remembered as having, not to mention enough cinematic adventure to make future peoples click their mandibles with delight. In Captain James Tiberius Kirk, future generations will see our liist for life. They will sec our courage and sacrifice. Most importantly, they will sec our limitless spirit of adventure and our passion to boldly go where no man has gone before, even if our boldness carries us into : , realistically. Im not in a frat, I dont play football, and that screws up my shot with half the eligible women. Most of the other half consists of environmentally conscious granolas, who arent my type. I dont recycle; Ive probably even littered in the past six months. Now before you let his article sink you into a state of melancholy, let me assure you that there is hope. Last week I attended the wedding best friend. Usually weddings of a long-tim- e and chills. I hate to sec a guy nausea me give willingly lose his freedom, at least thats how I used to see it. But at this wedding, I envied my friend. I saw that he was the one who was truly free. His days of pub hopping and his wasted nights were over. Im starting to see what would possess people to settle down, share their money and boreeach other for the restoftheir lives.Maybe ' its got something to do with love, but more importantly, they re released from the pain of Janice Gee Sophomore, psychology I HATE IT! Its depressing, it makes you feel trapped, its dirty and you get stuck in it. It gets your new boots wet that you just paid big bucks for; I talso has to be shoveled and, yes, I am a Utah native. : - . , dating in Utah. I ve been thinking that maybe I should settle down, you know, get married, buy a house, get a job, have a couple kids, a dog and a Suburban. Then again, who am I kidding? My dating li fe may not be optimal , but at least its a better life than A1 Bundy leads. If I find the right girl, maybe Ill feel differently, but thats up to fate. Until then Ill keep - Mr. Spock will be a monument to the future of our commitment to logic. In reality, to be a rational human being in the20th century requires people to go against what society considers normal, even to go as far as what society considers insane. However, Spock will con future people into believing we were a bunch of logical little creatures running around spreading goodwill. Hopefully, Spocks logic will show them that some of us, in fact, knew what logic is and werent insane, but were merely reacting to an insane situation. Future generations will again be conned by Dr. McCoy. They will be fooled into believing that we respected life. Perhaps they will even overlook the myriad species that we destroyed and w ill be greatly moved by the look of anguish on the good doctors face when he mouths those famous words, Its worse than that. Hes dead, Jim! They will also be reminded of the great strides America has made in the field of medicine. Hopefully they will ignore that this was done at the expense of other mals. Scotty is a perfect example of our societys obsession with technological advancement. He will remind future peoples of our astounding advances in technology (and the consequences to their breathing habi ts that resulted), but most importantly, he will remind them that you cannot break the laws of physics, Captain, and if you try, the whole thing will explode in your ignorant face. -- In the future, if people want to learn about our society, they will be far better off renting one or two Star Trek movies (preferably II and IV) than reading about us in a history book. They will receive a wildly inaccurate, depiction of us, but at least they will not recognize our culture for what it truly was the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams. being a slave to the grind. Luckily its just enough fun to keep me going. Anyway, what choice do I have but to keep looking for the right woman? Celibacy? Right! Call me desperate, but Im not sick! And before you start feeling sorry for me, let me remind you that if your situation was better than mine, youd be holding something other than this newspaper. January. 19, 1993 Jorum Page 3 |