Caught on Campus: Student would invite Ghandi, Hitler and Jesus Christ to lunch
Utah Statesman: Why did you decide to come to USU?
Brad Larsen: I live twenty minutes away in Newton.
US: How is it to live at home and commute in?
Larsen: It’s good, it’s cheap.
US: Does it hinder your social life?
Larsen: No. I’m not very social to begin with, I guess.
US: What’s the best thing about USU?
Larsen: Basketball games.
US: What’s the worst thing about USU?
Larsen: Book: the price of books.
US: What are you going to do with your major?
Larsen: Possibly teach. That’s the way I’m looking right now. Basically, I’d get a shop job. I’d work a little bit with computers or wood or a handful of other things I could teach.
US: Where’s your dream place to live?
Larsen: I don’t know.
US: If you had an unlimited supply of monkeys, what would you do with them?
Larsen: Train them to work for me. Make them rich so I could do whatever I want, so I don’t have to go to school, so I don’t have to do anything else other than snowmobile and water ski.
US: How often do you go snowmobiling and water skiing?
Larsen: As often as I can.
US: If you had to pick five words to describe yourself, what would they be?
Larsen: Tall, different, religious, fun loving.
US: Do you read the Statesman a lot?
Larsen: Not a whole lot, from time to time. I like the funnies.
US: What’s your least favorite thing about the Statesman?
Larsen: Advertising.
US: If you were the dictator of a small country, what would your plans be.
Larsen: Well, there’s no way you could achieve world domination as a small country, so I’d try and figure out a way to mooch off someone else.
US: If you had five hours of free time and money was not a problem, what would you do?
Larsen: I think it would be a blast to go skydiving and go water skiing because I haven’t been since the summer.
US: Are you single or married?
Larsen: Single.
US: What would you say the dating atmosphere on campus is like?
Larsen: I try not to get involved.
US: Why not?
Larsen: I don’t know. I’m just not looking right now, I guess. Trying to get a bit of schooling done.
US: What’s are some of your favorite movies?
Larsen: This sounds kind of odd, but “My Fair Lady” or “Fiddler on the Roof.”
US: Both musicals … why is that?
Larsen: I like to find the small humorous parts in them.
US: What’s the most humorous part in “My Fair Lady”?
Larsen: Alfie P. Doolittle. He’s just a common dustman, but he has quite the philosophy on life.
US: What do you like to read?
Larsen: I usually find something else to do, but I use to like to read fiction, fantasy type things – Robert Jordan, “Wheel of Time,” “Dragonlance,” those kind of things.
US: If you had a choice between a flying carpet and $10 million, which would you choose?
Larsen: A flying carpet.
US: Why?
Larsen: Because you can make $10,000,000 off a flying carpet. I’d ride it around at first, break it in myself, and then probably auction rides.
US: If you had three wishes, what you wish for?
Larsen: I would wish that whatever amount of money I needed, I would just reach into my pocket and pull it out. I would wish that politicians would actually do something more constructive than I think they do. On a global scale, not just in America, that they didn’t just act over power and money. I would wish that I had an answer to every question.
US: What is your opinion on the current Bush administration?
Larsen: We went to war and I figure he [Bush] knows a little more than I do so I’ll trust him; but if he’s in the wrong, shame on him and he’ll go to hell for it. When the power is abused, though I don’t think it has been (I don’t know, I don’t follow it too close), then they should go to hell for it. We’re entrusting them with a lot and if they abuse it and misuse it, that’s really bad and that says something about our country.
US: You’re having a dinner and you get to invite three people from history to attend. Who do you invite?
Larsen: Jesus Christ and .. I don’t know I haven’t given that much thought. Maybe Ghandi. Sure, why not Ghandi? And, let’s say Hitler just to change things up.
-mattgo@cc.usu.edu
