A ‘typical Eugenean’
eludes final definition
By OSCAR HALPERT
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Before I left my hometown for
Eugene a few years ago, friends
had told more than one story
about the city's curious re
sidents — the Eugeneans
"Watch out," a friend warned
"They’ll make you into a radical
leftist and force you to recite
strange poetry."
Yet, others warned of
Eugene's conservative, reac
tionary climate
Two years in this city and
they're (we re) still a little hard to
categorize Walking through the
downtown mall recently, I got
some interesting perspectives
from a few local and not-so
local residents
"The typical Eugenean is to
tally out of fashion and unaware
of other states," said one of two
teenage girls in tennis shoes
When asked to describe what a
typical Eugenean looks like, she
replied, "Natural ”
A hurried-looking man in grey
suit and glasses described the
typical Eugenean as “narrow
minded and parochial "
Some interesting responses
came from two recently trans
planted Oregonians
"They're warm-hearted here,
more than back east," said a girl
from Vermont
"What exists here is a
squirming mixture of distinct
social groups." said a sandwich
vendor originally from Ithica,
N Y
"First, you have a huge hippie
population," he said "Then, a
bunch of imported easterners,
backwoodsy natives and a
large, affluent and boring mid
dle class "
One woman said she felt
Eugeneans were a little too
self-centered
"They're a little bit self-right
L
eous But they're nice people,
outgoing Most are common
looking and there's way too
many hippies,' she said
Still others described the
typical Eugenean as "shel
tered'' and "sitting in their own
little environment "
I sat down next to an older
lady — my mind wandering back
to those warnings from my
_!
friends — and asked her to de
scribe the typical Eugenean
She looked up from the
magazine she was reading,
pushed her glasses up and
paused a moment
‘ Open-minded, tolerant, en
vironmentally concerned, anti
big city,” she said She paused
again, then added, "maybe a
little bit elitist."
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