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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.
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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. He told me then that he
thought that was the corniest line
ever. We went out for a year. ”
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