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Dallin Osman, freshman majoring in computer science said, "I was asked to a Valentine's Day dance one time by this girl who liked me. When the day arrived, we went to dinner at someone's house. I'm a vegetarian, and there was mostly meat. , But then when we were at the dance, she , had to stop and talk to everyone and flirt 'with every guy. We danced half a song the | entire three and a half hours." Broadcast journalism freshman Leavitt Wells said her Valentine's Day ended in with quite the crash. She said, "There was a couple at my high school in Las Vegas, Nev., who were madly in love and were planning on getting married right out of high school. It was Valentine's Day and so naturally the guy, Matt, had a romantic evening planned. He had surprised her by having a rose delivered to each class, and then gave her another dozen at the end of the day. He took her to work and then went to finish the setup. He bought her a beautiful black dress and laid it out on her bed. That night they went out to dinner at a hotel in Vegas. They were on their way back to his house driving on the freeway. Matt forgot to look over his shoulder when he was changing lanes, and they were hit by a semi. They were both taken to the U continued from page 5 analyzing every little thing - jumping through mental hoops trying to figure out what the other is thinking. Peaden and his roommate, jokingly called the Love Gurus by friends, created a theory they call the ladder theory that explains the different ways relationships are viewed. Males are climbers and females are the ladders in this fascinating view of relationships. Guys just believe in climbing, he said, while girls are a little more discerning. LANT PEDDLER FLORALW Stop by or give us a call for aii your Valentines (behind Charlie's Ice Cream} B See HORROR, page 7 Theory: Dating made easy Don't let Valentine's passl 'without sending flowers to someone you love! Floral needs. 753-0444 1213 N. Main lived but decided later to the engagement." anie Porter, freshman majoring in secondary education said her day of love ended with more than an injury to herself. She said, "On Valentine's Day, it was my first date with this guy who I liked. We decided to go miniature golfing. While everyone was taking their turns, some of the kids started jump roping, only with the golf clubs. My date was jumping with my friend and was holding the golf club hard when he accidentally let go of the handle. The handle didn't have a grip on it, so it was just the metal. It hit me by the lip and down my chin, and I was started bleeding pretty badly. I was trying to figure out where the bathroom was, and no one would help me. Later, we went to dinner at The Olive Garden and we went to the wrong one. When we finally arrived at the right Olive Garden, the guys then left to watch a basketball game, so the girls all went to the bathroom and, frustrated with our dates, we were ragging on them. We went to leave, and the guys were all standing at the door listening and laughing. When we got to the dance, the boys ditched us again. My date wouldn't ever dance with me, and when he did he was always telling his friends to kiss their dates. When he dropped me off at the doorstep, I went inside. I went to school the next day and he was telling everyone that I was all over him and was trying to "For a guy, up is good," Peaden said. "The guys see ladders as strictly vertical, but what some guys don't know is that girls have two ladders - one for courtship and the other for friendship." Peaden's theory claims girls are going to relegate guys to be friends or romantics, so the guy needs to do something to let her know which ladder he wants to climb. "Dating and ladder climbing is a hard enough process as it is," said Kyle Griffin, Peaden's roommate. "Why make it more difficult by playing head games with someone?" Griffin, junior in international business, said, "Dating mind games are manipulative and break the barrier of trust immediately." Peaden and Griffin both agree guys need some sort of obvious signal that the girl is interested, which they call the law of reciprocation. This law, the Love Gurus say, includes breaking the touch barrier, sending a flirtatious text or giving a sincere hug and "Thank you" at the end of a date. Girls need to express whether or not they are attracted to the guy, Griffin said, so when they play games like "hard to get" sometimes the guy just finds the girl too "hard to understand." "Dating is integral to the ladder theory," Peaden said. "If a guy does not ask a girl out, then he will never be able to climb her ladder, which means no golden rung (marriage) for him." Rachelle Cazier, 19year-old sophomore in elementary education, said the "golden rung" is a lot more fun to reach when mind games are not involved. Cazier said women need to stop playing games and get off the emotional roller coaster. "My brother-in-law loves my sister so much because she was the first girl he dated that didn't try to get inside his head," Cazier said. "He almost didn't know how to react to a girl that didn't play games or try to make him jealous." Cazier believes that once a guy does not have to worry about being a player in a mind game, he can devote more time to the girl and the actual relationship. However, there are those who believe games are healthy for a relationship. Clay Bingham, freshman in biology, believes games are beneficial because he said he can learn a lot about a girl and she can learn more about him without actually having to sit down and talk about each other's personalities. Bingham said he is very familiar with dating games and he has even dated some girls that do not have enough brainpower to even begin to play a mind game. "I've tried to send breakup signals before and they didn't take," Bingham said. "I was the player and sometimes the girls just don't get it." For more information about the ladder theory, visit http://cc.usu.edu/ -dpeaden/ladderstheory. htm. - Courtney.schoen@aggiemail.usu.edu |