All Things Crunchy / Laguna Bash / Tidbits

All Things CRUNCHY- Crunchy people are a breed of their own. Similar to "college", everybody has a little bit of crunch in them, but some people are just total crunchmasters. Some of our readers have no idea what we are talking about when we call somebody "crunchy", so tonight we are going to try to define this lifestyle. But before all you baby-booming gongshow fans fire up the kitchen stove for some tye-dying or dust off your Woodstock-era peacepipe, let us remind you to not confuse "crunchiness" with being a hippie.
And now, as best we can, a brief description of the stereotypical crunchy person.
Habitat: The crunchy person can be found tight-rope walking on the BC campus, playing the bongo drums at the commune, in coffeeshops (including the Hillside bar), hiking the Appalachian Trail, strumming their guitar/ reading in the Dustbowl, or protesting unfair Malaysian labor laws in front of Conte Forum. While the average BC student is discussing a recent Has Beens gongshow at Roggies, the crunchy kids are discussing their latest Save the Whales efforts at Moogy's (gongshow sidenote-Moogy's has $1 drafts all day, and some great crunchy healthy food.)
Wardrobe/ Appearance: Crunchy people love corduroys, Birkenstocks, anything hemp, camping backpacks, Patagonia furry fleeces, wool socks, ski caps with outflowing nappy fro, carabiner keychains, and Nalgene bottles (with a Free Tibet sticker, of course) carabinered to their North Face backpack with a yoga mat protruding out the top. The crunchy guys often have beards, while the crunchiest women have furry legs. Diet: The Crunchy food pyramid is dominated by organic, earthy foods- sprouts, Odwalla bars and juices, chick peas, hummus, tofu, pita pockets & chips, vegetarian panini's, Fresh Samantha juice, granola, yogurt, raisins, trail mix, unsalted pistachios, soy milk, etc.
Transportation: Crunchy methods of transportation include longboarding, barefoot walking, biking, hybrid cars, old school Land Rovers, Volvo's, Saab's, Volkswagens or Subaru Outbacks. A crunchy car almost always has ski racks and Grateful Dead, Phish, or other bumper stickers protesting something.

A crunchy person is diet-Hippie, Hippie Lite, or Neo-Hippie. In a lot of cases, he would love to be a hippie but his parents have invested too much in him for him to become a hardcore earth-lover. Crunchy people, who are (unexplainably) often Jewish or Christian Scientist, come from all over the country, but you will find a high concentration at the New England prep schools, or at the small New England colleges (Middlebury, Amherst, Bates, etc). UVM students walk the hippie/crunchy line. BC students are usually more of a yuppie-crunch. They are crunchy, but they keep it crunchy while also following the unwritten lifestyle guidelines of the Heights. Element-proof North Face jackets dominate the campus, and the Plex is littered with indestructible Nalgene bottles- but in all honesty, the only elements the North Face's are conquering are splashed Busch Lights on the 1914 dancefloor, and the only extreme usage Nalgene bottles get is by booze-smuggling Eagles fans in the Alumni Stadium student section.
Disclaimer: Everybody has a little crunch in them. We consider ourselves to be part-time participants in the BC yuppie-crunch movement. It's a good style, and the diet-crunchy is mainstream here. So don't get your thermal underwear in a bunch- we all know who the leader of the Crunch Brunch is. We don't know his name, but we have all seen him tight-rope walking, skipping barefoot through campus, and dominating trail mix. He is just way too crunchy.

Laguna Beach BASH!-
what: Laguna Beach Party
who: Stephen and Jason from MTV's Laguna Beach, anybody 18+
where: Felt, Theater District
when: Thursday (11/16) @ 9-2
why: We at gongshow@BC are heterosexual, but we are quick to admit admiration for the kids from Laguna Beach. They are living a sweet life with their friends in Cali, beautiful vixens, nice weather, etc. Now they are getting paid to tour the country and have these Laguna Beach parties in major college towns. It's like being a pro athlete or a rockstar, but instead of partying after you play/perform/work, you just go straight to partying. What a job. This party is sure to be a gongshow and there is already scores of BC Thursday nighters planning on heading downtown for the night. See the studs from the show and get silly on the dancefloor with coeds from the other Boston schools. 18+ to party, 21+ to drink. Officially endorsed by gongshow@BC.

GONGSHOW BLESSINGS: BC Sailing's Golden Child, Reed Johnson, is headed to Hawaii Thursday morning to compete in the Singlehanded National Championships. We wish Reed the swiftest of winds and the best of luck as he competes against the best sailors in the nation. Godspeed, Big Johnson.