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Show The Sellout A View From The Huddk' By BRUCE ROBERTS A note to the anonymous cat who wrote to the Chronicle about the Huddle yesterday: We fully appreciate appre-ciate your comments, and, as usual, they will be considered for the "Paranoid Letter of the Year Award," offered annually to the mcst ludicrous complaints registered register-ed in the Chronicle Mailbox. Yesterday's letter was a superb example of a misinformed student who takes it upon himself to mangle the facts publicly. Mr. Name Withheld raved about the Huddle in the University Union being be-ing a sanctuary for "winos, crooks, vagrants, pimps, prostitutes and 'in high school students.' " He went cn to say that because the Salt Lake City Police cannot come on campus without the University's permission, the Huddle becomes a hideout for every form of society's outcasts. Net Bums, Just Unusual These statements are not true. First, on several occasions, campus security as well as the Salt Lake City police have stationed themselves them-selves in the Huddle looking for people that Mr. Withheld describes. Often dressed like bums themselves, them-selves, these agents frequent the Huddle as much as any other type of people, but have very little success suc-cess in bagging their man. Obviously, Obvi-ously, Mr. Withheld does not know of these existing circumstances, for they are quite evident and well-known well-known among the Huddle inhabitants. inhabi-tants. Secondly, his description and accusations ac-cusations of people in the Huddle are nothing more than very poor character judgements. Mr. Withheld With-held blindly related all the degenerate degen-erate people in society to those occupants of the Huddle. This is also quite far from the truth. True, a cross-section of Huddle inhabitants inhabi-tants does show a wide variety of appearances and personalities, but it would take a warped mind such as Mr. Withheld's to come up with such brazen generalities and attribute attri-bute them to a small university cafeteria. Who Is He, Anyway? Actually, any sane University student stu-dent realizes that this crass letter needs no rebuttal. But several people recommended turning the tables on Mr. Withheld to analyze his personality, seeing him as a frustrated homosexual who could not make a connection in the Huddle. Hud-dle. Or maybe he himself would be an outcast from society who could not accept others m on his grounds. viti The only valid critic Withheld brought out in was the attack on teeny.w' the Huddle. Nobody and fortunately, steps hLTi taken to eliminate them Close To Our Hearts But for the most part, & , held completely misses the cance of the Huddle on ourcjf Yes, it is a center of rebellb non-conformity on this cairW it rises above the criticisms oi terday's author in that it is J1 cated group. The Huddle pr()5 a meeting ground for groups '.1 a center of activity for those 'S time on their hands; it has on"' ' the finest juke boxes in town' the Huddle has even beenknoi' serve a pretty good cup of w on occasions. Part-time poet Joe Kirk once i scribed the Huddle as a gather' of all the world's losers into J; small area. Self -evaluation r show this to be a pretty fair Si-' mation. But once a loser is int. Huddle, he becomes a wiic amongst his contemporaries finds that this little cafeteria is1 salvation from the up-tight he; like Mr. Name Withheld. I |
