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■ i you got 1 * The Battalion Aggielife Page 3 • Monday, November 1, 1999 I'm actually!i \ the girls are':, g°r -TVvl : t% 4; f^l HOW TO DO STUFF BETTER Part 1 of 5 Today’s Lesson: | r>e suave, always Avoid embarrassing yourself in public — Let us help you out. BY MELISSA PANTANO The Battalion A s the semester rapidly approaches its close, it is apparent some of you just don’t get it. We all like to think of ourselves as cool, calm, collect ed and super-suave, but the truth is a gross majority of us are not much better than the stumbling, drool ing high-school kid who cut you off in traffic last week while driving his mother’s minivan. Fear not, socially inept ones — help is on the way. Here are a few sim ple tips to help anyone get through the social trials and tribulations of college life. a P Always assume they have caller ' w ID on their phone The Situation: You go out on a date with a great girl. After you drop her off at her house, you drive home. When you get home, you can’t stop thinking about her, so you call her. No answer. So you sit and have a couple of beers with the guys. Once you get a little tipsy, you think you’ll call again, just to make sure she made it the 10 feet from her door to her bedroom. No answer, so you call again — at 4 a.m. How to be suave: With caller-ID being so afford able these days, it’s always safe to assume the lady in question has the service. Never call more than two times a day without good reason unless you are play ing phone tag. This is the easiest way to scare off a girl before you even get to know her. Shelley Klotz, a senior psychology major, knows the annoying nature of a persistent tele-Romeo. “I went out with this guy once,” she said. “He called like 15 times the next day and then hung up each time.” Klotz said his unsuave antics killed the relationship before it even started. “1 wasn’t sure if I was interested,” she said. “But after he called 15 times, I feared that he was becom ing a psycho stalker. ” Women have facial features as well you stop and talk for a while. To your dismay, you find yourself picking his chin out of your cleavage and wip ing the saliva dripping from his mouth as he attempts to have an intelligent conversation. How to be suave: Although some girls do not mind the attention, most find it really annoying to be seen solely as sexual objects. Contrary to popular belief, some chicks do have features above the collarbone. Surprisingly to some, not all guys are pigs. Some stare about six inches too low without even noticing what they are doing. Chad Steitle, a senior biomedical engineering ma jor, said some guys are just shy — not perverted. "A lot of guys have trouble looking people in the face, especially pretty girls,” he said. Steitle said sometimes testosterone just takes over. “Some of it is hormones, but some guys are just re ally shy,” he said. Margaret Griffith, health education coordinator at the A.P. Beutel Health Center, said not all males are drooling heathens. “Not all guys do that,” she said. “Some are very Sensitive to the way girls feel about it.” Griffith said guys who stare on purpose are not im pressing anyone. “If there’s a feature that stands out about that per son, that’s the one that your eyes are going to be drawn to,” she said. “But some guys who do it inten tionally to impress their friends need to know that girls really hate it.” in won •\7' as d osoms The Situation: You are at a party with your girl friends when you see this really cute guy from across the keg. You catch his eye on the way to the potty, so Only meatheads set involved i V bar brawls The Situation: You are sitting at The Chicken with your buds when a big, drunken redneck trips over your foot and spills his pitcher of beer all over him self. He turns around, his eyes red, as he explains he had to pawn his tractor to buy the pitcher. As his mas sive overall-clad body stands over you, you must de cide whether to fight and die at the hands of this mer ciless animal or flee and live. How to be suave: Ok, so we’ve all heard the line, “The bigger man walks away,” but the truth is noth ing is more important to the typical male than his sense of pride. Lorna Breault, coordinator of first-year student al cohol education for the Department of Student Life al cohol- and drug-education programs, said pride should not take precedence over responsibility. “It’s just not worth the risk,” she said. “There is a risk of being arrested, jail time and of physical harm.” Breault said the financial risk alone should be enough to hinder fighting words. “Who wants to spend all of this time and money going to college to mess it up?” she said. “If you get arrested, you could go to jail and have that on your record, which could keep you from getting a job. Also, there is the cost of being in jail, bail and the possibility of being sued by the other person or the bar owner.” Don’t pay with gift certificates The Situation: You are out on a date with a cute guy from one of your classes. You meet at a popular chain restaurant for a great dinner. Things are going well until the check comes. He picks it up, looks at it and reaches for his wallet. You offer to pay (any chick worth her salt would), but he nods and says, “No, I’ve got this one.” Suddenly, all of the violins in the back ground come to a screeching halt as he pulls out a pre paid gift card, waves it in your face and says with a drawl he hasn’t had all night, “I wouldn’t have taken ya to this nice, fancy place if I didn’t have this.” How to be suave: Everyone understands college fi nances. Not everyone has an unending money tree (Mommy and Daddy) to pay for everything. But come on, kids — show a little class. Don’t do more than you can afford. If Taco Bell is all that your job will allow you to buy, so be it. Don’t cheapen the date and make the other person feel uncomfortable by using Aunt Fri- ta’s Christmas gift. Brandi Leggett, a senior recreation, parks and tourism sciences major, said paying with a gift card does not make a difference to her as long as the guy shows a little class. “It doesn’t matter to me if he pays with gift certifi cates,” she said. “But if he made a big deal about it and said something, I think I might be creeped out.” One does not need to be a British secret agent to be ultra-cool in any situation. Just remember — canned soda is best neither shaken nor stirred. II ATTENTION BBA AND MBA STUDENTS Honor" Society Isssf a Billion-Dollar Fort Worth Hedge Fund is coming to campus! WANTED: BBA MBA Junior Analyst Assistant Portfolio Manager Junior Trader European Arbitrage Analyst Junior Accountant Q Interested Candidates are Invited to Attend an Information Session on Q Investments November 3 rd , 5:30-6:45 p.m. in 302 Rudder Resumes and cover letters to campusrecruiting@acmewidget.com Minimum GPA 3.5, SAT >1200 Q Investments is an equal opportunity employer Q