WEQNEsdAy, F edruary 9, 2000
Saint Valentine’s Day
The origin ofyur Valentine's traditions
MANDY GOOD
Sports Editor
St. Valentine's Day: 5th
Century, Rome.
As early as the fourth
century B.C., the Romans
engaged in an annual
young man's rite to pas
sage
to
the
God
Lupercus.
During this time period,
Emperor Claudius II is
sued a law forbidding
marriage. He did this be
cause he felt that married
people made poor sol
diers because of the.emo-
tional ties they cre
this, Valentine was
put in prison and
ated. So in
stead of hav
s e n -
tenced
to
ing long term
death. Dur
mates,
the
would have a lot
ing the time
tery each year that
that he
was in
would determine
prison
their mates for the
following year.
awaiting
A man named Val
execution,
first V-day
entine was enraged
he fell in
card was sent in
love with
about this and he se- • c. 1415 by
cretly invited young
Charles, duke of the blind
Orleans, to his
daughter
lovers to have a pri
wife while he was
of
the
vate wedding cer
imprisoned.
jailer; her
emony.
Once Claudius heard of name was Asterius..
Through his unswerving
faith, he miraculously re
stored her sight.
On Feb. 24, 270 B.C.,
Valentine was clubbed,
stoned, and then be
headed. Before he died
he wrote a farewell mes
sage to his love and
signed it, "From Your Val
entine," a phrase that
would live long after the
author died.
Valentine Cards
Traditionally in mid
February it was the Ro
man time to meet and
court prospective mates.
The Lupercalia estab
lished the practice of giv
ing Valentine's Cards.
While no one reinstated
the Lupercain lottery (un
der penalty of mortal sin),
Roman young men did be
gin offering the woman
that they were courting a
handwritten greeting of
affection on February 14.
The cards also ac
quired St. Valentine’s
name. The earliest card
was sent in 1415 B.C. by
Charles, duke of Orleans,
to his wife while he was a
prisoner in the Tower of
London. The card is now
in a British Museum.
The first American pub
lisher of Valentine cards
was printer and artist Esther
Howland. Her elaborate
lace cards in the 1870s cost
from $5 to $10. Some of her
cards sold for as much as
$35.
Since then the Valentine's
card business has flour
ished. With the exception
of Christmas, Americans ex-
change more cards on
Valentine’s Day then any
other time of the year.
on’t we all wish that love could be like it is in the movies? The guy would always get the girl,
relationships would always be easy to maintain and no matter what happens, there would always
¿»e a Jiappy endin8-
Unfortunately, love doesn’t always have a Hollywood spin on it - although there are those few oddballs
together andywe spend our time wondering when they're hiding.
^fidUfiose of us who don’t have the luxury of a picture perfect relationship. well, we can always live
vicariously through the bliss and happiness of others. So, in honor of Valentine's Day here is a list of
romantic films to watch if you feel like basking in the warm-fuzziness of Hollywood love.
• **• *Lj*ttle’Women
Romantic Movies:
:jn no particular order)
/ • Ever After
Sleepless in Seattle
• An American in Paris:
•^Addicted to Love
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When a Man Loves a Woman
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While you Were Sleeping
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Meet Joe Black
Jerry Maguire
The Wedding Singer
• Casablanca
Far and Away
Notting Hill
A Room With a View
The Princess Bride
The English Patient
An Affair to Remember
Dirty DatfSftg/’4^
16 Candles
Pretty Woman
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•.«Gone with the Wind
f'T X
\ • The Sound of Music
My Girl
Much Ado About Nothing
RomanHoliday
SpJ
My Fair Lady
Moonstruck
An Officer and a Gentleman
Joe vs. the Volcano
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
When Harry Met Sally
Romeo and Juliet
z
Pride and Prejudice
fajp Gun
Say Anything...
Romancing the Stone
Somewhere in Time
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Shadowlands J
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Braveheart
Runaway Bride
French Kiss
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’Here comes the bride’ familiar song for ASG
JOHN THOR BURN
MEGAN OLDENSTADT
Wedding bells are
chiming within the walls
of the ASG offices this
year.
The echo is a familiar
sound for the student
government.
DeWayne Kelly, this
year’s Environmental
Senator and Emily
Offield,“the Public Rela-
tionsOfficer are engaged
to be married this August
4th.
Kelly cites that his love
for Offield stems from
"her constant friendship
and support."
David Hartmann (previ
ously David LeDoux),
last year’s ASG President,
became engaged to Chris
tine Reed, Legislative Of
ficer this past fall.
They plan to wed this
August, as well,
nj ‘
‘ ’• ’
Amy Crooks (previ
sweetheart from Canby,
Jeri Scarborough.
ously Amy Lundy), Leg
‘
‘ ® Advisor for Stu-
~
islative
“We were voted the
dents, is a former student Most Opposite Couple in
and member of ASG. She high school,” noted
met her husband, Alex Caudle, who now works
(previously Guy Crooks) in the counseling and ad-
while in ASG when she vising center in the com-
was president 1994-95.
munity center. “Jeri is
They tied the knot in great because she puts
the summer of 1998.
up with all of my crap, ba-
Mike Caudle, ASG sically. I’m not the type
President 1995-1997, of person who shows a
married his vjee-presi- lot of emotion in a rela-
dent and high school tionship,
tic
and she is. She
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■K
puts up with me,”
They were married this
past July 16.
Scarborough is now a
finance officer for U.S.
Bank.
"Everytime somebody
joins ASG, we make them
sign an agreement that if
they marry someone else in
ASG and they get divorced
they have to make a large
donai'ion to the foundation
office," joked ASG Advisor
NormBerney.
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A former editor of the
Print and a former ASG
president met while at
Clackamas in the early
1990s and then pro
ceeded to get married.
They are currently di
vorced with a son.
This confirms the
long-standing rumor
that the Print and the
ASG are in bed to-
gether.
Happy Valentine's
Day!