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12 CLACKAMAS PRINT «JUNE 3.2015
Make-outs and break-ups:
Dating on campus
Story and photos by Amber Fairbanks
OPINION: It's hard to meet someone in any other
setting besides on campus when you're a full time
student and you spend the majority of your time
in class or buried beneath a pile a homework. But
what about having a significant other on campus
with you or even having a class with them?
You love spending time with your significant oth
er, but is having a class with them too much time?
Clackamas Community College student Natalie Hugo
thought so.
“I wouldn’t enjoy it. I’d rather have separate class
es than my boyfriend. It’d be too much time spent
together,” said Hugo.
I would probably lose my mind if I had a class
with my significant other. I like to keep my school
life and personal life separate. I can only deal with
one at a time.
Kim Edwards said it depends on the relationship.
"With Nick it was hard because I knew exactly what
he was doing (being unfaithful) and he would still
try to hide what was going on," she said. “But with
Gavhyan it’s different because we spend a lot of
time together, but give each other enough space
to go and have fun with whoever we want without
worrying. We have a really good balance that keeps
us from getting sick of each other."
“ It would be too much
time spent together.”
- Natalie Hugo
Kind of hard to hide that you’re being unfaithful
when you’re both on the same campus every day.
Why even try? If you don’t want to be with some
one, don’t be with them.
Colleen Hayes had a long term relationship on
campus.
“I thought it was good,” she said, even though it
had ended. “But I made sure we did some things
separately. It’s really easy to spend too much time
together."
I found love birds Julio Arevalo and Kayla Jayne
who met in high school and have been going strong
for four years now.
“I don’t know, we just get along really well,” said
Arevalo when I asked him how they do it.
“Well that, and we are interested in different
things so we don’t have the same classes," Jayne
answered.
I see couples on campus holding hands and mak
ing out in the hallway one week, then giving each
other death glares and cold shoulders the next. I
know I purposefully avoid places where I know my
ex is going to be, but having that place be a class
you share? No thanks.
Dating is something that should be fun, not stress
ful. Breakups are never easy, but having to see your
ex every day makes it so much worse. So if you are
going to date, do it off campus. Or at least make
sure you don’t have any classes together.
Students Julio Arevalo and Kayla Jayne display their affection on campus.
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