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Finding your ’one/ being truly happy, in love
With Valentine’s Day having
passed, I feel it necessary
to say what I really think about love,
romance and the realism of finding
“the one."
How do you know
when it’s true love and
you’ve found “the
one”?
I would say, quite pos
sibly, a person would
just know. I’ve heard it
told, by my mom and
dad who happen to
have been together for over 30 years,
that you just click with that person.
I might not be the best person to
say what true love really is because
once upon a time I thought I knew;
I thought I was in love but, alas, it
was not love. Love isn’t supposed
to take your heart, rip it in two, throw
it in a blender and hit puree. Love is
supposed to leave you breathless.
It can give you everything in just
that one feeling, but it can also de
stroy it in that same moment.
Everyone has a sad story of love
gone wrong and mine is no differ
ent, but my writing this is in hope
that everyone will believe love will
someday find them no matter how
bitter and disgruntled one can get
by being alone. So, I’ve decided
that love is about a special feeling,
Granted, I’m single and yeah,
maybe a little bitter, but hey, any
body would if they had a six-year
relationship that ended the way mine
did. I won’t go into details, I’ll just
say he left for all the wrong
reasons and I wanted him
gone for all the right ones,
but I wanted to stay with
him for all the wrong rea
sons. I just didn’t want to
Salena De La Cruz be alone. So, here I am three
Opinion Editor
years later and still single,
and I still don’t want to be
ner beauty, strength, honesty, de alone, but no one really does. But
votion, but most importantly love, I’m healthier and, in the long run,
to the highest standards, such as happier for it. Granted, people have
myself.
friends and family around them, but
Hell, I was happy just hearing “I not the kind of emotional fulfillment
love you.” Nothing too complicated that love and companionship can
or expensive—it was that simple.
give. Whether it’s someone of the
So, how do we find love or “the opposite sex or someone of the same
one,” as most put it? Love can be sex, everyone should have a chance
staring at you from across the room to be loved.
or the friend you see every day and
My final words are don’t go
never thought about trying to see searching for love, let it find you,
“what if.” Love can be pleasure or because the most unexpected
pain; it is what you make of it. So, places or people have a way of jump
why do ail singles strive so very ing out at you when you’re not look
hard to find someone elsewhere ing. Isn’t it better to be with some
when they might already be so close one for the right reasons than all of
to “the one”? Sometimes the most the wrong ones?
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love.
happiness and “the one,” who may
not be a god- or goddess-type who
outrivals all others, but one who
characterizes everything I want in
someone. Someone who holds in
Say It Loud
&
Proud!
By John Baggs,
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.Letter to the
Eating disorders vary immensely
Recycling is a good thing
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People assume that most waste is a
lack of concern on the part of users. A
byproduct of the generation of
over-consumption. Certainly there are
those who just don’t care.
Over 50 percent of the sheets of
paper that are put into the printers in
Streeter Lab are printed on yet never
leave the lab. Why do the pages go
straight from ream to recycle? Because
the lab user didn’t know how to get
just what they needed.
On my desk today are some of
pieces that have gone through the
printer and then were left behind: sev
eral copies of a children’shook list that
was six or seven pages long; four
copies of the college schedule printed
from on-line; multiple copies of home
work assignments; web sites that run
20+ pages. I suppose this sound like
no big thing but these rejects add up
to-ever 1,000 pages or two reams of
paper, for less than a days operation.
Student and staff alike say “someone”
should do “something” about the
waste.
Well, you are the someone and the
something is to become an educated
user. If you do not know how to pri n t
exactly what you ^ant, ask the CS tu
tors in the Streeter Lab. They will be
more than happy to help in any way
they can. Its their job.
1) Learn & use print preview. If the
document doesn’t look good before
you pint it, it won’t look any better in
hardcopy.
2) Carefully proofread the entire docu
ment and then make all corrections
before printing the document again.
3) If you think you sent something to
the printer, but it doesn’t seem to be
coming out of the printer, get help.
Sending it to the printer three times
won’t make the first one come out any
faster. But you can bet all three will
show up eventually.
4) Print specific pages of a document
If the information you want is on page
10 of 30, you don’t need to print the
other 29 pages.
5) Research materials on-line, then cut
and paste the pertinent information
into a single document
6) Learn how to determine the num
ber of pages in a web document prior
to printing it
There are options other than
self-imposed conservation. Assigned
allotments, cash card or coin-operated
systems are all available. But the sim
plest most cost-effective process is
to take care of what we have so all can
benefit
Thanks for helping,
Kathy Logemann
Streeter Lab Manager
While the dramatic dangers of
bulimia and anorexia cannot be
overstressed, they are not the
only types of eating disorders.
Here are a few of my favorites.
One of life’s little ironies is that
the culture that embraces
Twiggy
and
aspires
to
Flockhartesque-thinness is also
home of the super-size fry and
Double Gulp. The health risk
obesity poses to the individual
is less destructive than volun
tary starvation, but the damage
our extra pounds cause on a na
tional scale—say, in terms of
heart disease—eclipse anorexia
and bulimia several times over.
Another set of disorders is a
study in contrasts. Almost uni
versally, eating is an integral part
of social activity: think business
lunches, meeting for coffee, din
ner parties, awards banquets,
and church potlucks. Going out
to eat is considered a form of en
tertainment. Taken to extremes,
this becomes a problem, build
ing up and reinforcing a culture
of overeating.
Sufferers from this disorder
can’t enjoy a movie without pop
corn and candy. To these com
pulsive snackers, “I’m hungry”
usually translates into “I’m
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bored.”
The flip side of this coin is the
person who is so bored with the
process of absorbing vital nutri
ents that he or she does not en
joy food. Chewing is unjustifi
ably time-consuming, so protein
shakes and multivitamins are
popular al
ternatives to
actual
meals.
A varia
tion of this
disorder is
character
ized by an
interest in food, but insufficient
time to eat. The afflicted person
is heavily dependent on drive-
thrus as a source of nourishment,
and typically eats alone.
One of the most insidious dis
orders includes diets that greatly
restrict or eliminate food groups.
A vegetarian diet, for example,
has many positive aspects, in
cluding a far more efficient
source of nutrients. But the care
ful regulation of these systems
of nutrition require, especially for
developing organisms—remem
ber the high-protein Atkin's
diet?—is often overlooked by
the casual consumer.
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Other disorders reflect the
poor reasoning skills of our popu
lation. Our society’s objection
to pesticide/fungicide/herbicide
use in food production is usu
ally framed in terms of the safety
of food, not effects of chemicals
on the environment. The health
benefits of consuming fresh pro
duce are overwhelming, and re
search, such as studies done by
Hudson Institute indicate the
risk of pesticides negatively af
fecting a human is so small it is
practically theoretical.
Now, are these disorders life
threatening? Excepting obesity
and a continuous carbohydrate
diet, probably not. But while
these variations on the tradi
tional disorders pose minimal
risk to actual health, overall life
quality is diminished.
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