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Show The Tfumderbiri Monday March 25, r New excuse BY SCOTT PRICE pHours: YE OLDE KL Flower Shoppe SUSC has identity crisis 586-518- committee meeting any problem with that? Spring quarter of my senior year finds me without debate tournaments, without student government, without any excuses at all for going to Red Cliffs and soaking in the sun. Enter my new Thunderbird column. New deadlines new demands a Jl Long stem Vs?er doz. 27 North Main Street Cedar City Ut, Ill begin this week with a brief explanation of the name Ive chosen for my column. You see, when I was a debater, I always had an excellent excuse for missing class. Im sorry, but I just HAD to attend a debate tournament in San Diego the day of your test. Can I make it up next week? Later, I got involved in student government. This was a beautiful excuse! Cant make it to class today, were having a faculty salary review 9:00 and Page 5 1 985 7:00 ptrij rearranged 4 7 elcome back SUSC Students & Staff new excuse! Of course I do my best writing on the scorching red cliffs just south of here. My inspired observations this week concern (in part) the political make-u- p of our illustrious student body. In sum, Ive concluded that SUSC is a school with a severe identity crisis. left The students here are polarized (Catholics, proenvironmentalists, single students over age 25, and Democrats), and right (everyone else). The faculty is stigmatized competent (those able to spell words more than 10 letters long) and incompetent (everyone else). The administration is categorized progressive (all those on the third floor of the administration building) and regressive (everyone else). With the dawning of spring quarter, we are destined to find even more internal inconsistencies of our campus coming to light. Spring is the time when people come out of their winter closets and show their colors. Just Saturday, I found a friend of mine passing out what he called liberals garments Teddy Kennedy for President When I asked him if he felt this type of action was a little provocative, he just smiled and offered to sell me a bottle of melted snow from the nuclear free zone display. We can divide up students and place them in their appropriate political niche according to major. Students in the school of Arts and Letters, for instance, would be in the left political arena, whereas science students would be in the right camp. Business communication technology students tend to be in the right political field while education majors are, for the most part, in x the dark! (They havent learned to spell yet, let alone understand what it means!) I certainly hope spring quarter sees increased political activity around campus, even if its limited to local or campus issues. Whether your cause is to rewrite the ASSUSC constitution, or to raise money for starving people in Africa, college is an excellent place to test ideas and accomplish goals even a schizophrenic college like SUSC! CLIFF'S COUHTBY CUPBOARD TC El 771 1001 SOUTH MAIN STREET HOURS: MONDAY THRU THURSDAY 8 AM TO FRIDAY A SATURDAY 8 AM TO 8 PM SUNDAY 10 AM TO 5 PM SPECIAL MONDAYS SUPER SU3 SANDWICH WITH CHIPS AND 16 OZ. FOUNTAIN DRINH FOR ONLY ICE CREAN CONES ONLY 50 C $3.19 pol-a-ti- GET OIIE O Free pitcher of soft drink with any purchase of a large or medium pizza. Must present coupon. Limit one per pizza. Expires April 4, 1985. 579 South Main 586-989- 6 .VfT TJO TO 6 PM |