University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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You see, nobody you know in Boulder ocTuolly grew up in Boulder iMindy doesn'T counTl. IT's illegal To live here unTil you're eighTeen, and Then only if you have on ID ThoT soys you're 21. OuT-of-sToTe license ploTes ore essenTiol. lT's assumed your cor is eiTher foreign or four-wheel drive. No less Thon four Don Fogelberg albums in your record collecTion will be ToleroTed, and any menTion of AerosmiTh insures oousTic commenTs ond perilous peer pressurionion. You can slide on The Frye booTs, o genuine cowboy hoT IsTrow ones are for your moTherl, and The quodro- digiTolphonio Tope deck, buT if you ski on onyThing buT Rossignols, iT's book To Michigan wiTh you. And you ThoughT all you needed was 0 good down vesT oncl UvorneTs. Ahrk, ohrk. Humor. BuT hey, wild and crazy, mild and lazy, you can be anyone or onyThing you wonT in Boulder. Nobody was ever expelled from CU for general weirdness or bod oroziness. They even used To require H in Sewoll residenTs. Oh sure, you'll geT o few snide chuckles in The Pooker Grill if you breeze by in o fishneT body sTocking ond pIoTinum pumps you sTole from your old roommoTe who hodn'T missed The Rocky Horror PicTure Show in Three years, buT mosT people wouldn'T boTher To look up from Their copies of The Colorado Dolly. This sorT of noncholonce, ofTen misToken os mellow , buT more clearly idenTified os boredom , con also be observed in mosT lorge psychology and ohemisTry IecTures. CommunicoTions majors don'T even boTher going To class To read Their's. Journalism majors oon'T read, so They gope oT The picTures ond Doones- bury, wondering where They wenT wrong wiTh The Working Press, CU's only high school poper. MUST have been The Typeface. STer in Boulder varies, depending on whoT's unsTylish elsewhere. Here, whoTever should be wrong is obsoluTely right. They would never allow hiking booTs in STudio 54, buT They're porT of The dress code oT The Blue NoTe. Hippie gorb is always foshionoble for any occasion, buT The LoTe Depression look is making greoT sTrides wiTh fooulTy ond froTerniTy members. SoTin gym shorTs ore bypassed for corroded cuToffs, and no Two T-shirTs in Town are alike. The cosmic cowboy inTerrningles wiTh The long-hoired preppie ond oTher wolking, Tolking porodoxes wiTh oil The ease of shifTing 0 BMW. John TrovolTo would be laughed ouT of Town. Affording Boulder is no liTTle feoT. lT's Tough To wallow in TrusT-fund deco- enoe when you wash dishes in Forrond To pay for your coke lThe bubbly sTuffJ. WiTh prices rising as you read This, even oorporoTe soions ond upper-oloss fugitives hove Trouble keeping up wiTh The Tabs run up on Friday ofTernoons oT AnThony's Gorden. NegoTive checking oocounTs are in vogue now, and handy TronsooTion cords provide osTronomiool omounTs of cosh onyTime, usuolly spenT on kegs and parking oT Voil. TwenTies disoppeor fosTer in Boulder Thon hiTs of acid on Halloween wiTh only 0 handful of ifreel popcorn from Isodoro's To show for Them. Change is used primarily To odjusT ski bindings ond plocoTe TronsienTs in from of Bovo's. Poy- ohecks are signed by your foTheri IT's ocTuolly quite easy To spend your allowance in Ten minuTes, largely due To The ropidIy-escoloTing cosTs of ocodemic diversions. Boin de Soleil, cigoreTTes, ond Ml grom Frisbees are free compared To The price of skiing oT STeombooT, a case of Molson's from Liquor MorT, or on ounce of iinserT preferred governmenT-reguloTed norooTioJ, To say noThing of o Tonkful of gas or a meal CT The Oasis Diner. There's always a good reason To skip economics, buT why sloop To pinboll when you can drink pino colodos in The sun oT Yocum's'? AlmosT odulT.