Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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USU administration that improprieties might exist in the security department. USU officials then requested that the attorney general's office look into the matter. The suspects were believed to have taken money, tires, gasoline, food and other items from the university. The effectiveness of security at USU had been o much-discussed question for some time, ond the orrest of the former security personnel coused the controversy to reoch on obrupt climax. But not os abrupt os the denouement of STR8 in the Dork the evening of Friday. Feb. 20. 1981. The Student Activity Board function mas brought to o sudden holt ujhen o grease fire in the Hub filled the crowded Taggort Student Center with potentially dangerous fumes, cousing campus fire morsholl Dewitt Birch to order the evacuation of the building. The fire started in the Hub's deep fryer when o thermostot malfunctioned and allowed the oil in the fryer to reoch its combustion point. Logan City firemen quickly extinguished the blaze, but clouds of smoke were spread throughout the building by the ventilation system. Birch ordered the building cleared os a sofety measure. The Hub reopened the following Tuesday. serving a limited menu, but it wos weeks before the deep fryer was repaired and the Hub was operating normally. Having a lot in common with the Hub fire wos the Coca-Cola controversy on compus: it exploded, flared briefly ond was extinguished in short order. The controversy wos launched when USU awarded o distribution contract to the Pepsi Cola company. Virtually overnight. Coke and Dr Pepper disappeared from campus, precipitotmg yet onother letter writing campaign to The Utah Statesman in which outraged Coke lovers demanded justice, equal consideration and the real thing.

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1 Hub fire Hortmoon They got them. R Pew days loter the bid was resubmitted. and Coke reappeared in vending machines campus-wide. IP the Coke Puror was o tempest in o teapot, the Cquol Rights Rmendment is not; particularly in Utah. Rll it needs is a catalyst to cause an explosion oP emotion. Rnd USU hod such o cotalytic personality visit the campus. Monday. October 6, 1980: Sonia Johnson, o highly controversial co-Pounder oP Mormons Por CRR. Speaking to on emotional crowd. Johnson colled the Mormon Church the arch enemy oP the CRR. but said she wasn't anti-Mormon but rather wos onti-Mormons (who were) onti-€RR. She wos excommunicated against her will Prom the IDS Church Por dePying church authority. Johnson's antithesis. Beverly Campbell, the IDS spokeswomon against the Cquol Rights Rmendment. made on appear once on campus Pour months later and soid that the CRR wos o noble proclamation, but too unspeciPic to be truly ePPective. She also insisted that human rights should take precedence over women's rights. The personalities visiting campus went