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Show Gene Townsend firaj Narrow? Look Again Anyone who thinks that Salt Lake City breeds a narrow-minded, closed-mouthed closed-mouthed society hasn't taken a drive down State Street, or a walk through the Huddle. MOST OF THIS criticism comes from the "outsiders and is based on their first impressions im-pressions of Salt Lake. However, the cracker-, barrel wisdom flowing forth from the fuzz-faced Huddle philosophers and from their short-skirted, long:ha ired cohorts shows that this University Univers-ity is a "melting pot" of ideas, beliefs, 'and peoples in love with a missionary and that she intends to wait two years until he returns. Then they will be married. (Heard that one before?) Directly to the left of this girl may be an all-girl sorority trio talking about "what's happening tonight at the house" or "who got pinned Monday night." SOMEWHERE IN between m'ay be a group of guys extalling the virtues of con-mon-law. (Talk to one of them sometime they have a pretty good argument.) Usually about 1 p.m. a group of guys sporting red faces (probably caused from skiing or from wearing their pants so high that their circulation is cut off) appear griping about things like "how the out-of state students should be forced to pay higher tuition." (REALLY THEY are jealous because the out-of-state students steal their girls.) The out-of-state crew usually "Huddles" "Hud-dles" it later in the evening, after 6 p.m., dressed in their grubby white levis, black tennis shoes, and "University of Utah" sweat-shirts. (Out-of-state girls dress that way too.) AFTER EVERYONE is seated, they talk about how "slow" Salt Lake is compared com-pared to how it "moves" back home. About 8 p.m. those "certain" girls appear dressed in black-ski pants, lingering, looking, and listening. (About 8:30 they slither out, latched onto some guy's arm.) AS I SAID, anyone who thinks Salt Lake City breeds a narrow-minded, closed-mouthed closed-mouthed society hasn't taken adrive down State Street or a walk through the Huddle. Mr. Townsend of Utah. WITHIN THIS "melting pot" exist many groups of conflicting interests backed back-ed with the administration's blessings to exercise and expound freedom of thought. (Like battles between the Mormons and gentiles, "Greeks" and g.d.i.'s, andNSalt Lake vs. out-of-state students.) NOT TO MENTION the never-to.-end batt'e between the sexes. One usually forms a good first im-pressin im-pressin of a group of "beards" sitting around a Huddle table discussing a longhaired long-haired topic. (But, I still think the reason they grow th beards is not to portray intellectualism, but to hide their faces.) THE HUDDLE serves as a funnel ito which all the various ingredients of the University "melting pot" are channeled. A cute, petite LDS girl may be sitting at one table telling her friend how she is |
