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Show Wednesday November 13 OflNTEilEsf 1996 Triue "Eiuro" Sityle Coffee anre Houses Hidden by Amber Sundin Forum staff writer houses then merged into "Penny Universities," a new trend that offered a stimulacofd It is 1:30 a.m. and a few tive cup of dancfee after for one cent. Participants of you are wired favorite tunes a to could at engage in the intellecing your local club. "A good cup of tual conversation of the time. java sounds nice," one friend Colleges today mirror the mentions. While exploring "euro" style coffee houses to your coffee house options, build a stronger community you snap back to reality and on campus. At Westminster realize there aren't many-y- ou coffee houses, you can enjoy live in Utah! Not want- free specialty coffee drinks at waste any more time, the espresso cart and then go to ing you resort to the local Village read a poem at the micro- Inn. A waitress, that looks Bhone. The University of fresh-brewe- Orr cont. from page 3 as well as to fit our infinite the earth humankind. Second, knowing a concept is not the same thing as understanding it and its influence of theories, con- effects on people and the cepts, abstractions and ideolo- earth. We must understand gies, we could face ecological how and why something is, as ruin: famine, disease, more well as what it is. crime, social breakdown, ecoRequired concepts taught nomic decline, general social in such majors as business and economics should also disorder, Orr said. If we come to grips with include an understanding of population, pollution, a sus- the probable effects of impletainable economy, and take mentation of these concepts. care of long-terinterests, What costs will be incurred, then we can oe reassured of a are unemployment, crime, comfortably rich, green world, higher divorce rates, alcohe said. holism, child abuse, lost savTo safeguard our future ings, and wrecked lives. from social ruin and help Last, the way in which assure a prosperous existence, learning occurs is as imporOrr offers some basic princi- tant as the content of particular courses. Courses taught as ples to live by. all education is lecture courses tend to induce First, environmental education. passivity. Indoor classes creStudents should learn that ate the illusion that learning they are either a part of or only occurs inside four walls, apart from the natural world. isolated from what students Understanding this relation- call, without apparent irony, ship lets students use their the real world education to balance and Learning practical ways of of nature enhance the working living, in addition to analyti planet wants. If left to the extreme intellects of the world, who are working under the misguided m has kept the "Penny like she danced out of Warrants Cherry Pie music University" name, and orgavideo, moves quickly to your nizes similar events with free booth. During her fashion- coffee and entertainment. g able American coffee houses routine, she blurts out, "You know didn't appear until the late there is a time limit if you 1960s. They started out in the just wanna order coffee, and college districts focusing we don't have those cappio their appeal towards the a far stretch chocolate drinks either so "counter-culture,- " are you gonna go with decaf, from what we see at coffeeT eaffeinated, with, without, bars today. Back then, folk" black or cloudy..." Heard this musicians surrounded the jti before? Unfortunately Utah coffee house scene, as well as" doesn't offer true "euro" style poetry readings and "coffee coffee houses created in the talk" sessions. America was 1600s. These early establish- finally catching up. ments which are still the Today you can find a lot of of true "euro" style coffee same today, offer a taste culture and social bonding. houses in the United States. In our city, we're forced into In Italy, where they originatrestaurants with ed, (with over two hundred the coffee selections like Sanka thousand), you see one on or Folgers. every comer. In the U.S., they Over three hundred years are hidden and in the Beehive Brody Macey Forum staff writer ago, European coffee houses state sorry folks, there are were born, and frequently none. You could compare hired live musicians like vio- true coffee houses to nude As another semester of have to know linists and flutists to amuse beaches--yo- u classes begins to snowball the clientele. The coffee someone to find one! toward an end, many of us may become encumbered by the onslaught of finals and final projects. It is understandable, not to mention by Jennifer Mecham human, that we may respond to these events with anxiety. It 1 need a buzz of fuzz, is when that anxiety is a cup of joe, allowed to. branch off and shadow our everyday life that but Joe is out problems with stress may and Bob fills my mug instead: gum-chewin- The Forum Before It 24-ho- ur Joe and Bob bitter black, burning Bob. And the trashy waitress swings by my table to fill me with sweet fresh Java. She turns, leaves, but I drain pain on the backs of her naked knees when I throw Bob at her back and a new Joe fills my head with a buzz of fuzz. begin. cal and academic concepts is just as important. Practical things necessary to the art of living well in a place include growing food, shelter, building using solar a and knowledge of energy, local soils, flora, fauna and the local watershed, said Orr. These are living standards which no student should graduate without. Orr refers to A. Leopolds book, A Sand County Almanac, when he asks, if education does not teach us these things, then what is education for? Indeed, what is your eduTo construct cation for? of personaldreams grandeur ly saving the earth and the human race? To discover a new technological frontier? Or to pass each day and confirm tomorrows survival because you know you are still filling your bag of tricks with newly found pieces of knowledge to be used in a reasonable and responsible manner. Orr turns to T. Merton,' author of Love and Living, for answers. Merton advised his students to be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, butj.at) all rcostSf avoid one thing: success. Orr agreed, saying that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. It needs people of moral courage willing to join of stress for most people. As a the fight to make the world whole, these three may result habitable and humane. And in a perceived lack of control, these qualities have little to do with success as our culture which provokes anger. People likely to become has defined it. Hanging over our heads is victims of anger include perthe question fectionists (Everything must mark what can I do asking, be perfect or everything will to help? Consider this examfall apart); overachievers (I from Orr. Every gallon of should, I must, I have to); ple dont bum is a gasoline and people-pleaser- s in the ground. Its (If I gallon leftyou don't do this, no one will love an oil spill that doesnt hapthat me). Some people become pen. Its carbon-dioxid- e air. the acid in unable are doesnt because Its get they angry to discriminate between petty rain that doesnt fall out of the irritations and major chal- sky. The person who follows lenges and as result give near-equ- this example is a healer, a weight to both situa restorer. This is someone tions. who is capable of earning Because stress is often multiple degrees, educating brought on by feelings of many people, being a student being out of control, one of of a lifetime and loving the the best ways to reduce stress environment. Like David Orr, maybe is to remind yourself that your presence will youre always in control of one dayconversations of intelconengage your attitude. Youre in lect and words. trol, say the experts, because will name your appear you can choose to change fear, Maybe socially-consciocircles in uncertainty and doubt into and produce images of somenew, interesting, challenging one is y prestigious and experiences. toward a working If you cant fight or flee, better world to live in. When this happens, many of us may write adrenaline prescriptions for our bodies up to twenty or thirty times a day, by allowing petty annoyances to trigger stress. Suddenly we find ourselves responding to supermarket lines, traffic jams and laundry to be done as though they are threats to life and limb. According to the Hope Heart Institutes Hope Health Letter, there is a general agreement that fear, uncertainty and doubt, are the root causes flow. ever-prese- nt al eight-syllab- le us single-handedl- |