University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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(icorgcuc Ayoub, (rcshman in textiles and ilothmg from El Paso. El Paso is a pretty city, but isolated. I like it because it ' s home and because the weather is nice. Mexican culture is more intense - you get to know the Mexican holidays and we have great Mexican food. We have the Rio Grande River and the mountains. It ' s really hot in the summer about 105 degrees. The winters are nice, and it snows once in a while. The best thing about El Paso is that there are no natural disasters maybe once in a while you ' ll have a dust storm. The city is bigger than Austin, but for young kids there ' s a lot less to do. A lot of older people live there retired people. There ' s no beach, no place to go sight-seeing. We have only about three good rock ' n roll clubs and one amusement park. Kids go to Juarez in Mexico for fun. That ' s fun because they don ' t card you. You can go over there during the day and get mangoes. Usually, families are close-knit because of the Catholic belief. The biggest money in El Paso is in industry, restaurants and real estate. People don ' t spend money on entertainment. Likewise, people aren ' t as niic in Austin. You also don ' t find weird people in HI Paso like here For example, the Drag rats arc prettv bi arrc and po .pie here are also into drugv

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RIGHT: Houston: a labyrinth of highways, new construction and oil. BELOW: The Shack in La Grange is famous for its barbecue. T SHACK custom has been my home all my life. It ' s the fastest growing city in the nation - 1,000 new families are coming in a week. The people are very rich, very poor and a lot in between. We ' ve got it all. You can ' t stereo- type a Houstonite they ' re all different. The traffic is horrible, the weather is terrible. Every time I go home, it rains. Likewise, every time I go home there ' s a new building going up. But, it ' s got its good points, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Jones Hall and the Alley Theatre. Also, lots of good architecture. The man who designed the Pi Phi house (John Staub) designed most of River Oaks. When it comes to UT, this is a training ground for junior politicos. I wish some of the classes were smaller. When I first came here, I thought all the orange and white jazz was overdone, but the longer I was here, the more I began to appreciate it. It unites the students whether it ' s a good reason or not. We ' ve got one of the best library systems in the world. Also, we ' ve got one of the best pho- tography collections in the world and no one knows about it. There ' s so much diversity in the state you can Harltn Fleming, senior in art from Hous do anything you want to -- it ' s practically its own country. I ' ll probably stay in Texas the rest of my life. hit