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Show Page Eighiv-On- r The Daily Utah Chronicle Openings when you need the services of a shoe repair shop we would appreciate having you as a customer. quality workmanship reasonable prices martha wickelhau: Understanding, not isolation, only cure for culture shock She said it took bet a year to get to know anyone fiom tool. She had come from the east and had never beard of Moimons. She said she wasamaed by the jiolitital and social conservatism. When she went to a dot tor, be told her she had a tase of t ubuie shot k. When vou meet someone in Salt Iitke vou aie usually asked within the fust 10 minutes if vou aie I.DS. You sav "no" then son's fate to sec if you gave the right answtr. watth the I bev reply , "Oh. Have you ever thought about it?" he second question asked is "Do vou ski?" Again vou answer "no" and watth the sitange fat e appear. "Well, what by MARTHA WICKELHALS quality boot & shoe repair 480 6th avenue (corner of street) VS- fessy CI g - 533-007- It- 3 - MJ 1l Chronicle staff Cuhuie shock is a vague term for a complex and varying expenYiue, but n seems to fit. Vou find yoursrlf living in a new city vastly different from an thing ou have eer experienced; the common ideologv is different or nearly opMsite to you i own; you don't know anyone. Ilie sv mptoins of t ul turf shoe k vary w ith the pel son. Some people bttoine extremely nervous, others vvithdiavv and isolate themselves and otheis just feel extremely uncomfortable around strangers. st EARN WHERE two-yea- do ou do?" Having failed to answer these two major questions toirettlv. you ttawl back to vour corner and watth for others who have failed the test. 'on tongregate, t ultural misfits, and talk about how absuid everyone is; how no one could pay you to get on a jiair of skis or how you never heard of latter-day Saints. You are in a strange city trying to meet new xople. You can't understand the way the streets ate numbered. People keep asking you if you are a member (of what?). You are 25, not married (why not?) and vou need a drink, but it's Arbor day and the liquor stores are closed. WHAT DO YOU DO? You rebel. You sit on your front porch on Sunday afiernoondiinking beer, watching the Mormons go to church. When one of them looks your way, you wave your beer can at them and watt h them walk quickly away. You sit and smile, believing next week they will walk on the other side of the street. Or, you go to the ZCMI center during General Conference and talk very loudly about your brother's bar mitvah or about your uncle the rabbi (so what if you aren't Jewish). Such reactions may be amusing but they lead only to alienation. The way to survive is not through intimidation YOU LEARN but through understanding. when many of How can we call Mormons closed-mindeus immediately classify them all as conservative, prejudiced, people, even though we refuse manually get to We assume that because they ate LDS, they know them. would just as soon have us dead as to have us take a drink of liquor. We like to have everyone in safe little gioups so we know where they are coming from all the time. But as soon as we start t lassify ing, we start shutting ourselves off from people; we never get past the first quick impression. We miss the continued on page 83 d (the no interference job) part-ti- me self-iighteo- nn $ ATTENTION $ Call Lt. W. Farrens "7 2 I A Student's Save Time Study - students receiving NDSL loan monies for Fall Quarter 1978 must 1 V 3 ask any midshipman 1 1 It is hard to believe it has been two years since I stepped off a bus onto the stieetsof Salt Lake City. I was 1,200 miles f torn home and scaled to death. All I knew of I 'tab was that it bad mountains and Moimons, and I bad heard too many bad stoiies about the Mormons. After two years I have learned to like Ctah and, although I don't agree with Mormon ideas, I have learned to live here with the Mormon population but, only with few run-in- s after two years, a lot of frustrating exjieriences and a nice case of culture shexk. When I first came to Salt Lake, I picked up strange habits, like garment watching: walking down streets and counting how many people were wearing garments. I also didn't want to answer my door for fear of missionaries. Another University student said when she came to Salt Iake she began losing weight, was nervous all the time and isolated herself from everyone but her family. r If a scholarship that loads to a job after graduation sounds good to you. here's your chance. If you are a college sophomore, you can earn a scholarship" worth up to $10,000. Naval ROTC pays full tuition during your junior and senior years, books, fees, and living expenses of $100 a month for ten months each year To qualify, you must have above a C average 2..'3 out of 4.0) or better. You must pass a Navy physical examination. And it helps if your major is math, science or engineering. The deadline for application is May 1. 1978. Contact your local Navy Recruiter or see the Pro fessor of Naval Science on your campus. 501 or Is Time All attend On Working Where You The U Of U Campus. Tell to attend this orientation to obtain a release of financial aid. Any student who has an Emergency Loan or Accounts Receivable Loan due before Fall Quarter or any outstanding dishonored checks, must take care of their outstanding debt before Fall Quarter 1978. Any questions regarding this should be directed to the Student Loan Service Center, ext. 8786, here on campus. Joos Available To Work A Trv Solution. 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