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Pickup artist
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I started off as nerds
Ince fiction fanatics.
Iter years of trial and
Ewell as studying books
Fairer sex, animal mat­
pls, magic tricks and
I more extreme situa-
Jpnosis, they learned
[of attraction. Many of
[ called tricks and tac-
Isimply restricted sales
nes.
Irst major figurehead
[edgling seduction com-
Von Markovich AKA Mystery. the community. Many times
Mystery was the first of these ''they themselves are attempt­
men to organize what he called ing to fix the same aspects of
“Boot camps” for which he their social lives. When these
charged a fee of $500, which women work with a male pick­
. included cover to go to bars up artist they are described as
and night clubs and a limou­ wing women. The Web site
sine.
Wingwoman.com states that,
In these boot camps he and “Every guy out there knows
his “Wingman,” someone in the it’s easier to meet women when
know of the techniques used you’re around other women.”
for attracting women, will take And they provide that service
students into the field. Once to a number of men, pickup
in field he and his Wingman artists included.
would interact with students,
Members of the seduction
in some cases even going as community don’t typically
far as interrupting conversa­ use their real names, instead
tions with the intended tar­ preferring to use code names
get to correct body language, much like the names, used
voice tonality and phrases.
by the characters in Top Gun,
“Usually, being out alone names like Mystery, Style,
can be kind of creepy, and Johnny Charisma and Victory.
it’s always nice to have some­ This trend was inspired by
one to analyze and critique Mystery who found out the.
the approach and the body hard way that the Internet is
language, conversation flow, a rough place to use your real
etc.,” said Lienen.
name since the introduction of
Mystery would fly across Google.
the country to visit other men
PUAs belong to a number
who were struggling with of social classes from high
women and attempt to teach school students to millionaire
them how to become attractive real estate tycoons. What con­
to the opposite sex through nects them is the desire for,
subtle alterations of the stu­ you guessed it, picking up
dents appearance and in some women. They all have differ­
cases outright manipulation. In ent reasons for joining this
his first boot camp he trained a community. “Most of them are
journalist who was investigat­
ing the community for Rolling
Stone magazine, Neil Strauss.
Strauss later set the rela­
tively small community on fire
when he released his book,
“The Game.” His book caused
a large influx of men to join the
seduction community in mass.
Companies such as Mystery’s
Mystery Method and Real
Social Dynamics or simply
RSD sprung into action charg­
ing higher fees for boot camps
(currently up to $4,000).
“It’s rather expensive and
discourages new people from
joining the community, and
enforces the whole mentality
that rich people get chicks,”
Lienen said.
Men are not the only active
participants in the seduction
community, quite the contrary.
In fact, according to Lienen;
he has met a number of women
who enjoy being members of
CHILE:
Another
earth­
quake
devasts
Continued from CHILE, Rage 1
•nerds and they need a social
guideline to follow,” Lienen
said.
Of all of the pickup artists
in the game, a term that is used
to reference the act of picking
up someone, Lienen says his
favorite is David Deangelo,
the figurehead
_
of a company
called Double Your Dating,
“because he focuses on more
than just the picking up women
aspect of the game and more
on developing yourself as a
whole person.”
Lienen preferred the com­
munity before all of the hype
started, “before nobody had
any idea what we were up to,
it’s becoming a sign of our
generation.”
Next term: steampunk,
greasers and vampires.
As of Friday, March 5,
2010, there where nearly 452
identified deaths, about 500
hundred unidentified bodies,
plus people who have not yet
been found. The Chilean gov­
ernment is giving one year to
find bodies, identify than and
have a total count of deaths.
According to TVN, one of the
most important local Chilean
news charnels, it will cost any­
where from “15 to 30 thousand
million dollars to put the coun­
try back together depending
on the magnitude of disaster.”
Since many places in central
and southern Chile are still
unaccesible due to the catas­
trophe, the amount cannot be
determined at this point
So many children have died,
olds- citizens are now living in
toils after their homes collapsed
and the cities destroyed... “My
brother lost his daugthers, his
wife, our older brother... eight
people total lost their lives in his
house, but we should be thank­
ful, because it could have been
nine,” said Joahim Recaharren
about his brother.
To those anonymous
heroes, to those who have
helped in some way, to the
youth of an entire country who
have given up their parties,
their clothes and days just to
help, to those who have helped
those who ay leaving their
own pain and tears aside, for
those who died and those who
lost their loved ones ... I wrote
this story for you. Associated
Student Goverment in CC 152
will have a donation jar for
anyone who wishes to donate
money. All of the money col­
lected will go to help victims
of the Chilean earthquake and
tsunami.
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One thing led to another
and now Bob Cochran is
Clackamas’s new dean of
campus services.
Cochran is a week and
a half into the job as of
today he has had a total
of nine interviews for the
job.
Cochran worked as pub­
lic works director for the
city of Fairview for 13
years.
As public works direc­
tor he did a lot of work
with the water systems and
parks in Fairview.
“The education arena is
all new to me,” he said.
So far, Cochran said he
has attended a lot of meet­
ings and met his staff. He
has 41 employees working
under him.
As dean of campus ser­
vices, he is in charge of
maintenance and opera-
tions, as well as building
management and the print
shop.
“The greatest challenge
I’ve heard is doing the
same and more with less,”
Cochran said of the cur­
rent budget situation.
Cochran describes him­
self as being laid back and
detail oriented.
Although he is not all
business, he admitted that
he has perused the college
catalog and seen some
interesting classes he
might take for self fulfill­
ment. He is interested in
art and computer classes.
Cochran and his family
are also very outdoorsy
and enjoy boating, water
skiing and wakeboarding
on the Columbia River in
the summer time.
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