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FUN IS WHERE YOU FIND IT Boone provides the ASU student with a unique challenge: the search for something to do during free hours and on weel ends. It takes a little imagination, but the challenge can be met without fleeing down the mountainside to more ' cosmopolitan ' climes. ARTICLE BY PAUL BAKER Boone, it has often been said, is a boring place to go to schooL The mass of cars headed down the mountain every weekend stuffed with students expecting a wild time in Raleigh or Charlotte attests to this fact. Admittedly, Boone is not as glamorous as the sprawling megalopolises for which these escapees yearn. It ' s not as easy to have a good time in Boone. The few movies which come to this altitude are usually horrible and restaurants can be prohibitively expensive. Even the time honored ritual of student drunkeness has been thwarted by the powers that be. Boone is still dry, and Blowing Rock isn ' t what it used to be. The bars and bands are gone, and P.B. Scott ' s Music Hall has been sold to make way for more condominiums. The Blowing Rock legacy is dead, and the weekend refugees continue to flock down the mountain in droves. Too bad. Boone, really, has a lot to offer. It ' s just that one has to dig for it. The most obvious entertainment resource, the mountains themselves, provide some of the most spectacular scenery this side of China. A day ' s hike through the woods or a highland pasture out-strips a smoky barroom anytime. These mountains are the backbone of this continent, ancient and haggard, washed by the storms of tens of thousands of years. To walk them, to feel them solid under foot, is to share in their mute testimony of time. One cannot help but feel awe among the rolling green knobs and valleys. But the mountains can ' t be enjoyed vicariously from the back seat of a Volkswagen barrelling towards the Piedmont or from in front of a television set in a dorm room. Meaningful exper - iences must be actively pursued, and in Boone, finding them takes a lot of creativity on the part of the seeker. - Perhaps the most striking feature of Boone to the newcomer is its laid- backness. Nothing moves very fast in Boone except at times the wind. To adjust to the pace takes time, but when one finally gets adjusted everything falls into place. The simplest things become important. A well cooked meal, a weekly browse through the record store, a hot shower after a workout, even a sunny day take on an almost religious significance ' when one slows down enough to thor- oughly appreciate them. Anyone in Boone fortunate enough to own a front porch swing knows that to have fun one really doesn ' t need to ' do ' anything. On the cultural side, Boone isn ' t as dry as it might seem. The University almost always has something going on whether it be a lecture, movie, play, or concert. Entertainment on campus is usually inexpensive, and the quality is outstanding. The opportunities for a student to get involved in campus politics, media, and the arts abound. ASU ' s size and relatively small enrollment allow social interaction with people of diverse backgrounds and ideas. This perhaps more than anything is the most abundant source of entertainment. Through conver- sations with fellow students knowledge and ideas are digested and disseminated. And this, for the young mind, is a most pleasant and valuable pastime. It ' s cheap, too. No, Boone isn ' t as exciting as some of the larger cities nearby. But anyone who is bored here just isn ' t trying very hard. A student ' s experience at ASU will be dull indeed if he doesn ' t take advantage of what is here and even more so if he spends his weekends out of town. I
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