Editor:
I can just imagine the Jerusalem Olympics, where ham and cheese sandwiches should be within arms reach at every public gathering.
At the Calcutta Olympics, large porterhouse steaks should be sold 24-7 at every booth.
Birth control pills should be handed out as people go through security at the Rome Olympics.
Utah’s liquor laws are stringent and different compared to other places. Whether or not they should be changed will forever be under debate. I, personally, don’t care what the liquor laws here entail, as long as people aren’t drinking and driving.
However, I am getting frustrated with the insistence that Utah and Salt Lake City must change to be like every one else in order to not look provincial.
The Cultural Olympiad will be held in conjunction with the Olympics. Has anyone approached the Navajo Nation (who will have a tent with demonstrations on his or her culture) and told them to dress in business suits so people from other nations won’t think of Utah as backward and primitive?
Are they commended for showing the world who they are and what their culture is like?
Yet, for some reason, Utah can’t be different from any other place in the world because other people might think it isn’t “fun.”
According to Matt Canham’s Nov. 26 opinion column “Party Hungry Tourists Need to Visit the Mayor,” we shouldn’t have cities with an individual flavor or style. Apparently, being different is bad for business.
In a country and at a university that aspires to diversity in all forms, it seems as if diversity is fine as long as we are identical to everyone else?and a stiff drink is close by.
Rebecca Walker, Junior, Electrical Engineering