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Show Through the grain silo Alums get 'public image' tour By TOM WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff They were apprehensive at the beginning, though few were totally in the dark about campus affairs. Many had sons and daughters at the University, m0st were alums. They represented a cross-section of a vague, almost mythical region west of campus generally referred to as the Downtown Community. They were the Salt Lake Kiwanians, and had been invited on a tour of the campus by the Alumni Association and the Public Awareness Council. Ine Council, known as PAC, is a direct result of Associated Students of the Univers.ty of Utah (ASUU) President Duane Moss's campaign promise to improve the public image of the University. The tour was the pilot project in a program which will bring hundreds of Salt Lake residents from blue collar workers to bank presidents to the University. After lunch, the guests were divided into smaller groups and escorted to various parts of the campus. One such group visited the Behavioral Science building. A club member remarked that he thought the concrete structure looked like a grain silo. After being squeezed into elevators, the group ascended to the roof of the building. Surrounded on all sides by a great view of the campus and city, the reminiscences started to flow the Greek pranks, the old profs, the clowns, the eggheads. Most admitted that the University hadn't changed much. As the party walked back to their cars, they passed haltered girls and bronzed bearded males all beating the midday heat in the library fountain. The men, in suits and ties, stopped to talk for a moment. "How's the water?" "Great. C'mon in." "Wish we could join you." And they walked on to their cars and drove back downtown. fl' """ (IIII'M- I..I..U-IPP" II.IH11J1 |
