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Tie Battalion Aggielife Page 3 • Thursday, September 23, 1999 availabl compleii a tastes, lit died ito a ced hoi ?livereii if when a so ijor, sai ally use ig seni n she k ill day. Acuities Steel: irl, are your legs tired? ale and female students discuss the best and worst ways to attract potential mates BY EMILY RUDER The Battalion 11 night he has been glanc ing nervously across the room, trying to decide flat to do. He could make the first move or be patient, sponta- iflus or reserved, give out his number or wait to be asked. Not wanting to look like a fool, so the Assure is on him to make a fld impression. ■Like chemistry class, there are fdrinulas many students follow when trying to pick up guys and girls in social situations. Sara Keil, a sophomore theater arts major, said most girls give signs to guys when they are interested in talking to them. “You’re checking them out to see if they’re interested too,” Keil said. “You’ll kind of make yourself avail able. Girls are more subtle. They’ll stand by them or sit by them and let the guys make the first move.” Keil said guys often misinterpret signals that girls send out to the opposite sex. “Guys are pretty big flirts, but so are girls,” Keil said. “But girls can just be nice, and guys will think you’re flirting. So then you’re afraid to just be nice to somebody because they might get the wrong idea.” Darris Johnson, a sophomore bi ology major, said he rarely ap proaches girls he finds attractive. “When I see a beautiful woman, I just sit there and admire the view,” Johnson said. “I’ve only ever walked up and started talking to them a few times, and that was when I had been drinking.” Johnson said most guys love it when girls make the first move. “On the whole. I’m pretty shy,” Johnson said, “so that would be pretty cool if the girl would come hit on me. I think that’s every guy’s fantasy.” Lauren Nowowiejski, a sopho more elementary education major, said personality influences the way people approach the opposite sex. “Guys and girls are pretty much the same,” Nowowiejski said. “It is personality that makes the differ ence. I’ll just go up and talk to guys. V ..A CHAD ADAMS/Tm: B vh.u.ion but some shy girls only look from a distance. I try to impress them with my personality. ” Nowowiejski said one way to meet people is through activities and organizations they have in common, not in clubs or at a party. “Clubs are the worst places to meet people,” she said. “At a par ty, guys are trying to totally get their mack on. You’re not being yourself. When you’re really try ing to meet someone is not usual ly when you do.” Nowowiejski said to avoid men who are aggressive in clubs, like the Butabi brothers on “Saturday Night Live.” “There are those guys that get all up on you when you’re dancing,” she said. “You’re complete strangers, but they’re rubbing all their stuff on you. Don’t get with those guys.” Karis Bryant, a freshman busi ness major, said bars are the worst places to meet nice guys. Instead, she said people should find a per son that shares the same beliefs. “It is important that people have the same belief system,” Bryant said. “When you meet some random person, those aren’t the things that come up. But at church, or in a club, or playing sports, at least you know you have one thing in common.” Johnson said more personal set tings give you a better chance to meet people. “Friendly gatherings are the best, not a party,” he said. “It’s the ‘friend of a friend’ kind of thing, and you can get intro duced that way.” Regardless of the meeting place, Nowowiejski advises people not to miss a chance to meet someone who looks like their type. “When you’re physically at tracted to someone, go for it,” she said. “If you’re saying, ‘That per son’s hot,’ and you want to get with them, there is nothing wrong with approaching them.” Rather than relying on person ality, many people resort to using pick-up lines to attract the oppo site sex. Keil said she often has guys use corny lines to attract her attention. “I get stuff like, ‘You’re all that and a bag of Doritos,” she said. “You ain’t just chips, you’re the best kind. Once I had these two guys stare at me, and I asked what they were doing. They said, ‘Noth ing, just admiring the view.’” Johnson said he never uses lines on girls, but his sister is al ways getting one-liners thrown at her by old men. “The funniest line I can think of was once when this guy followed my sister out of a lobby and told her, ‘Excuse me ma’am, I normally don’t curse but when I saw you I said damn!”’ Keil said pick-up lines some times work, but usually they are just funny. “Some of them are kind of sweet,” she said. “It just depends on the guy. If it is some drunk dude that says, ‘Hey baby, you’re so hot you make me melt,’ then no!” Nowowiejski said she once met a guy in a parking lot who screamed “Howdy” at her, and re membered him because of the line he used. “He said, T lost my number, can I have yours?’ I said no,” she said. “We kept talking and he said, ‘No I really want your number, Lauren.’ So I said my number out loud, and a couple of days later I had a mes sage from him on my answering machine. 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