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29, W latro HEWA5 PISTAnie! Monday • September 29, 1997 Lifestyles Living with the Three's Company li. Sean Perez, a sophomore general studies major, passes his roommates, Taylor Darnell, a sophomore animal science major, and Leighann Sumner, a sophomore general studies major, milk. The co-ed living arrangement started this fall. Perez, Darnell and Sumner have known each other since ele mentary school. “I have known them for so long, so I decided to move in to gether,” Perez said. Darnell and Perez share a bath room in the three bedroom house. “Its not bad sharing it,” Perez said. “We have classes at differ ent times.” Perez said living with two DEREK DEMERE/The Battalion women is different than when he lived in Dunn Hall. “The arguments we do have aren’t as often,” Perez said. “But the ones we have are about stu pid stuff.” Sumner said she and Darnell asked him to move in. “It is a lot better living with a guy,” Sumner said. “There isn’t as much tension.” Sumner said living with Perez is not as bad as she thought. “He is pretty clean,” Sumner said. “He does make messes sometimes, but when he does, he is pretty good about cleaning it up.” All three roommates said the liv ing situation has worked out well. o)pp(S Co-ed roommates defy cultural norm By Michael Schaub Staff writer I t happens all the time. A young man and a young woman meet, become fast friends and start to hang out together every night. Sooner or later, they decide to make a logical progression and take their relationship to the next level. They do not start dating — they move in together. Defying cultural trends that once frowned upon any sort of cohabitation, friends of op posing sexes are now sharing living quarters, with less of the winks, nods and frowns that used to accompany such arrangements. Gabriella Guzzio, a senior chemistry major, shares a College Station apartment with friends David Reed, a senior accounting major, and Megan Jarman, a senior finance major. “There’s a lot less giggling and silliness than when I lived with just girls,” Guzzio said. “Plus, it’s easier to be annoyed at (David) than it is with girls. I don’t have to worry about whether he’s going to still like me. It just depends on the people, more than on the actual gender.” Jarman said she has noticed some major ad vantages to having a male roomie. “It works out better with the bathroom schedule,” Jarman said. “Guys are in there for five minutes, and they’re out. Also, it’s nice to have a guy when you hear a noise outside late at night. I can just say, ‘Hey, David, go down and see what that is.’” Although the roommates said their house hold is clear of conflicts, Jarman said, decisions about bathroom decor threatened to create a rift the size of Disneyland in the apartment. “Our bathroom was beige,” Guzzio said. “It was boring, so Megan and I decided to redeco rate before David had come back from summer.” The two seniors thought flowers would be too “girly,” so they settled on a Mickey Mouse motif. “It started with just a shower curtain,” Guzzio said. “Then it sort of snowballed into wall hangings and all that.” The bathroom, now decorated in bright yel low with likenesses of Disney’s smiling rodent, is a fair compromise, Jarman said. “It’s not girly,” she said. “It’s cute.” Guzzio said the mouse decor offsets Reed’s taxidermic taste in antelope skins and leather furniture. “If he can have dead animals, I can have Mickey Mouse,” Guzzio said. “There’s a lot of compromise here.” But there is little compromise, and a lot of acceptance, in the College Station apartment of platonic friends Leslie Speikes, a junior English major, and Jason Daughtry, a Texas A&M graduate. U There’s a lot less giggling and silliness than when I lived with just girls. Plus, it’s easier to be annoyed at David than it is with girls.” Gabriella Guzzio jsenior chemistry major Speikes and Daughtry said they like living with each other, despite their gender differences. There is an advantage to not living with oth er women, Speikes said. “It’s great. The only person I have to deal with who has PMS is me,” she said. “There should be a ‘one uterus per household’ law.” The ‘battle of the sexes’ does not rear its head in their household, Daughtry said. “It’s more like a brother and sister type of thing,” Daughtry said. “We mostly just pull pranks on each other.” “Like when Jason put that fake arm in the freezer,” Speikes said. The two never even fight about that most sacred of rooms — the bathroom. “What does a guy need?” Daughtry said. “A bar of soap and a bottle of shampoo.” “Whereas when girls take a shower,” Speikes said, “you have enough time to watch ‘ Seinfeld.’” The only bone of contention is over the television, but Daughtry said he has admit ted defeat. “I’ve had to watch a couple of soap operas — maybe 15 or 16,” he said. “I can’t change the channel, because I never have the remote when the soaps are on.” Speikes, however, finds joy in torturing Daughtry on Saturday afternoons. “He likes football,” she said. “I just like to see the expression on his face when I change the channel during football. That’s (women’s) fa vorite sport — watching you people (men).” Daughtry said the two find a way to get along though. “I have my own room and the door locks,” he said. “No, it doesn’t,” Speikes said. Daughtry said he has not been forced into any embarrassing situations in the month he has lived with Speikes. With many co-ed roommates, the issue is a personal one, and not a gender one at all. “I was always fighting with my female room mate,” Speikes said. “I don’t have to worry about all that b.s. now. I was in a bad situation, and Jason kind of swooped in and rescued me.” «CMC*’ , s lP»te2E«a ‘Come Join Us For Lunch” » FAST IN >> FAST OUT » LARGEST VARIETY OF FRESH PIZZA University Dr George Bur h Dr. QoCffcn jKjeg, National Honor" Society will be having an information table in the MSC from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm on Tuesday - Thursday 9/30 - 10/2 New &: prespectives members come and see us! The final deadline for buying a page for your organization in the 1998 Aggieland yearbook is today at 5 p.m. Contracts are available in Room 004 Reed McDonald. Get in before it's too late Summer its the rile earning suratev# its are also nathemate rocurement ;ful compIS' rtigation. n Octobers nt. 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