Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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students Look at Maryville What do 5,341 University students think of Maryville and its 9,970 residents? It ' s a real nice small town full of friendly, warm people, said an NWMSU junior from Bayard, Iowa. It ' s a typical farm town with very biased, old fashioned, redneck bigots, contended a junior from Walkerton, Ind. They and other students expressed their opinions during an unofficial poll conducted by the Tower staff. Accor- ding to the poll results, students ' at- titudes toward the AU-American City ' and its citizens are diverse. Several students praised the communi- ty. It ' s a peaceful town to get away to from the humdrum of the city, said a St. Joseph junior. The people care about us, said a Tarkio junior. If I didn ' t like the town, then I wouldn ' t be here, a Council Bluffs, Iowa, junior stated. On the other hand, many students criticized the town as an untypical college town with poor businesses and nothing for kids to do. The citizens resent me, but they need my money, said a Weston junior. Some of them don ' t like me because of my hair, my home, my friends. They won ' t accept me as a person, just another ' typical college liberal, ' said a junior from Savannah. I ' d never want to live here, contended a junior from Independence. The peo- ple are small town people used to small groups and small town people. Students are resented as intruders. 20 I