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Sainsbury hind it and its selfish for Stirland recommended will go as far as to call the distracting to every-Some people are using she said. them to text you late at students simply avoid being the convenience of cell cops and give them a lipher said its also selfish when using a cell cense plate number if she night just because they are phones to send immediate hen students text in sees someone texting on invitations for upcoming bored, he said. They phone. He said students Pay, about h. 'wel-Ipiob- , I rt Vs 7 K 7 LZJ. o is to n, . i V face-to-fa- St two-wa- late-nig- ht J s le is We can sit solves ,naction orm all passed the street who do a double students professor, this ;ns all the time. 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Aiken said texting can be acceptable as an invitation if it is an informal gathering like a pool party or a hangout on a Friday night, but formal celebrations such as birthdays or showers should be announced via mailed invitation She said after that a text would be acceptable if it was a remmder and not the invitation itself. "Texting is so convenient that it makes us lazy," Aiken said. "If someone sent me a text as an invitation I would think that person is slacking on their duties and that I was invited as an afterthought and maybe they forgot to send it in the mail." If someone you know is struggling with bad phone . te etiquette, Pulsipher recommended taking baby steps to initiate little changes that are easily obtainable. She said to take a note from a group of girls she knows who created a cell phone challenge to leave their cell phone at home for three hours. She said making an effort fo forgo your phone altogether is a good idea for people who are obsessed with texting. And if you need to keep youre your phone close by, Pulsipher said you should leave your phone in your purse or backpack during school so you arent distracted when its most important to stay focused. Sainsbury said people need to be educated on proper cell phone etiquette. Her idea is to implement etiquette workshops into school orientation so every teacher doesnt have to address cell phone use in classes. She also said it may be effective to have a traffic officer give examples of what has happened on the roads as a result of texting and driving to freshen students minds. elebrity look alikes found around DSCs campus rant ng uau. se Clara, is fre quently mistaken for Christian Bale from "The Dark Knight" and said he gets the double take a lot. He said he is mistaken for Bale at least once a week, but Bybee takes it in good humor. He said he finds it mostly funny. Its a good thing," he said. "At least hes not an ugly fella, or that would be bad." Bybee said once when he asked a girl to a dance at BYU, she just stared. He said she barely said two words to him the entire dance which made it awkward. Afterward he said she told him she thought Batman had been walking toward her. He also said he gets the double takes more frequently after a new "Batman" movie comes out. He said he doesnt see the resemblance, but it must be true because he hears it so often. Breanna Egge, a junior integrated studies major from Las Vegas, said she has been mistaken for the punk rock star Avril Lavigne. She said she doesn't notice if people do double takes or not, but she does think it's funny. She said once while she was walking with a group of friends, a random stranger yelled out "It's Avril Lavigne." She said it doesnt happen very often but she doesn't take offense when it does happen. She said it is hard for her to see the resemblance because Lavigne is "sooo skinny." Paul Abegg, assistant professor of music, said he doesn't hear it very often, but it has been mentioned to him that he looks like Orlando Bloom. The first time he heard it was from a friend after the first "Lord of the Rings" movie came out. Abegg said:"There is some resemblance; some similarities. I'm not offended, I just wish I made as much money." Fie said the most extensive thing someone has done was a student imposted to next him of ages Bloom on all of the announcement boards in the Eccles building. He said he thought it was humorous and he took the posters down at the end of the day. "Some thought there was a likeness and others didn't," he said. side-by-si- a senior accountVegas, Nev., she looks a lot like Avril Lavigne. Nathan Bybee, of Christian Bale. likeness has the he told been has from Santa Clara, ing major think they look like Both Egge and Bale find it funny and strange that people these celebrities. |