The
jury’s
still out
on
whether
dating
is dead
BY BONNIE DATT
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ripped. I ler nose ring glistened like
a morning dewdrop. She danced with
case, never once spilling her beer.
I'amn. vm ail ihc dollar pitcher
joints in ail the college
toss ns
in the world she had
to walk into mine
Ah, college ro
mance. Instead ot
dressing up,
sprit/ing on
cologne and
trying to re
member which
is the salad fork,
were hooking up.
popping m gum to
cover beer breath and
trying to remember wl
name we gave to the person
vsere dancing with.
il hut t' rial turf
Cof*hU>sn soci<*ty
I he answer nuv hr pjihetkjih simple povertv
\X c uren t dating in the traditional '(vie because
%vc re broke 1 lunging out in groups urn! rtreeling
people at parties is mu.h more atinumuil than
going on individual dates
"Its costing more and more to go to voifcgc. irui
parents and students aren't making more and
more, point* out Anita (.orv. coordinator of ( oeek
affairs for sororities ui Washington State t Siu
dents v in i afford dating the stereotypis al W4V It
becomes studying together or going to campus
events
And when someone g*>cs on an actual date, tf i a
s ampin event i orv vav-s
I here v this student 1 know pretty well who
asked a girl out and after tile first date, he vent her
Mowers All of the students were just anuml It was
such a novel idea
Group slates, however, allow you to take mven
lory, to decide tf you're ready to commit to the big
grr investment of a real date
Mostly I meet girls at a parts then ask
them to £t> out on 4 itJtc, Uu>n \v il
lev 4 senior 4t M4rdia.ll I in VC c%t \ ir
^inu 1 don't |£o out on too mam
date* Sometime* i II \cc them
again Jt jnothrt party and go
horn there
I hr amwcr nuy he
ocn mow simple We
don I date txrvausc we
don t have to !( there
are always i»ther fish
in the sea. the ( am
pus (Kean is where
to «, a*t your line
See, dating used to
he something you
did for awhile before
vou had \cx l hrse
dav%, it s often the
other wav around
l >ating is more like
drunken hook up than
nut dinner and a
fcjnur I ugatf
( jroli 4 ' l J‘.r night I heard
^ 't»inr -. ? .liking (. »: r of them
was going on about how he actually
took 4 gif I out to dinner — spent proba
%**f $10 and was upset because she
would nt have v<-\ with him
Our parents didn’t have this problem But then