Word: utah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was a vegan act and not Straight Edge, says Josh, who has completed probation. Asked why Utah Straight Edgers are prone to violence, he says, "Maybe because this isn't the most exciting town, and a lot of kids need a cause...
Maybe it's just that in Utah, joining a social order devoted to clean living doesn't exactly distinguish you. Firebombing meat and leather outlets, using pipe bombs on a fur-trading office and setting minks free, however--as Straight Edgers and closely linked animal liberationists have been accused of doing over the past several years--tend to drop you from consideration for membership in the church choir...
Last year, outside a pizza joint, University of Utah student Mike Orthner says, "I asked a stranger for a light, and he said, 'We don't believe in that.'" Next thing Orthner knew, he was clocked with brass knuckles, and "some wacko" was waving a sword. Assault charges against Randy, who claimed he "didn't hit anybody with it," were dropped for lack of evidence...
...violent fringe that interests University of Utah assistant professor Theresa Martinez. It's the nonviolent majority. "Thank God someone is coming out and saying we need structure," says Martinez, whose Straight Edge e-mail pals tell of alienation and disillusionment. Ryan Spellecy, 26, a teaching assistant at the University of Utah and a longtime Straight Edger and pacifist, says the organization constitutes a rebellion against a culture that glorifies heroin chic and the idea that you have to smoke or wear Guess? jeans to be cool...
...film and the morgue-cold installation of objects that accompanies it (a mirrored saddle, miniature mountains done in salt, white barbells of salt and epoxy resin, flags, flyweight sketches and various film stills) are loosely about the murderer Gary Gilmore, who was executed by firing squad in Utah in 1977. But to say that they are simply about Gilmore is a little like saying Picasso's Guernica is a picture about a horse...