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We request notification three working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. Kuumba (Creativity) imani (Faith) QJ 3 cu CD o o o TD rr> 2 ft < CD n> n * o 3 O n QJ* 6, Page 4 • Thursday, December 2, 1999 I hate 4CC CfOCC CfO-, , Students discover breaking up is easy to do BY JEFF WOLFSHOHL The Battalion T he semester is ending — time to give the ax to the old life partner. Because of its harsh nature, breaking up is not an easy process. People need all the help they can get, especially when a person finds it hard to take initiative. Relationships are fun, but every good ride must come to an end. Whether the breakup is slow and painful or just a flesh wound is up to the break-uper and the break-upees. Loretta Muenchow, a senior dairy science major, said the semester’s end can help couples to reach the end of a relationship which does not need to continue. “It’s more of an opportunity, because you can use the [winter] break as an excuse to end the relationship,” she said. ROBERT HYNECEK/Tiu: BATTALION Sometimes it is difficult for a person in a re lationship to bring up a pet peeve that has been ignored for a long time. Kasie Callaway, a freshman general stud ies major, said one of her friends used the winter break as an excuse to be away from her boyfriend. “They said they wanted to explore [other op tions] over the break,” she said. “The guy found someone else that treated him better, but the gir didn’t find anyone.” Sometimes there are better things to be had by starting anew. Muenchow said breaking up is easy to do when one’s beau is not giving him or her the attention they deserve. “It can be positive if the person is not treat ing you right, and you can express who you are,” she said. “If you get out of it, you might be hap pier, because they could be holding you back [from other opportunities].” Callaway said her friend’s relationship be came a comfort relationship which appeared better on the surface than it actually was. She said a person can become blind to a rela tionship’s problems and set their dating life on cruise control. “Comfort relationships are an easy way out [in dating], because you don’t want to hurt that person,” she said. Callaway said when a comfort relationship survives for the sole reason of maintaining the status quo, it could be time to cut the cord. She said there is a good life to be lived. “If you can honestly say you are comfortable seeing your boyfriend or girlfriend with anoth er person, you should break up,” she said. “It is time to date someone else.” Friends and their opinions of potential partners and potential dumpees deserve an all-ears audience. Danny Rigamonti, a sophomore biology ma jor, said the convergence of thoughts can serve as a reminder to break a relationship off. “If all of your friends are saying this person sucks, then it’s a pretty good hint at what you should do,” he said. Muenchow said a trusted friend’s perspective can be helpful. “[Friends] are good to listen to, because they have an outside view and opinion, so they can analyze the situation better,” she said. Muenchow said friends do not have their own emotions at stake in a relationship. That is important, she said, because their views are more objective than that of the person in the relationship. Relationship problems can be as common as E-Walk sweatshirts around campus. Brandy Hunt, a junior elementary education major, said communication issues ended a rela tionship of one of her friends. “They weren’t talking and ended up break ing up because of it,” she said. “And they were together for a long time. ” Hunt said the mental aspect of relationships is underrated by many people. “You have to communicate to be togeth er,” she said. “The physical part is not what it’s all about.” ' \ PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ROBERT HYNECEK/ThiI Despite communication efforts, a times a relationship simply is tiredandts to be discontinued. Rigamonti said changes in people can j doom to a relationship. “Change in each individual — soraeil more radical [in some] than in others- the relationship,” he said. “Sometime change is not the same.” When one person in a relatior.'. l changes, issues come about that arelefl the other to address. Callaway said mistakes are made an; possibility of a blissful breakup is lost whet pies fail to address a troubled past and ptfe “ [Miscommunication] not iaitto tht er person, because they may not know, you feel, and they could be lookl^Siiim she said. "Comfort zones sometiKaW^ this to happen.” Callaway said courage is important in' ing on with life. “ [Even] if you are not willing to taketfc tiative to get out of a comfort-zone relatioE then it’s [still] not right to stay in the tell ship,” she said. For those on the verge of stepping up® plate, Callaway said, the semester’s endiss thing very advantageous. “A [winter] break when you don’thavei in school is a lot better time to breakup now, especially during finals,” she said. Rigamonti said with the semestercomii a close, this time of year can be seenasa od of closure for more than just academics “It (the semester) is seen as an ending od, so perhaps it can help you take stock of er things that should end as well,” he said Jodi Foster to star in film biography LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jodie Fos ter plans to produce and star in a biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker acclaimed for her work but accused of glorifying Nazism in her 1934 documentary, Triumph of the Will. “There is no other woman in the. 20th Century who has been so ad mired and vilified simultaneously,” Foster said Tuesday. “She was per haps one of the greatest filmmak ers of all time, and yet her name will forever be linked to the horror of Nazi Germany.” Ron Nyswaner, nominated for an Academy Award for Philadelphia, will write the script. Allen speaks out on his character NEW YORK (AP) — Woody Allen says he’s nothing like his on-screen persona, and he seems mystified that people think otherwise. "Why don’t they do that with Charlie Chaplin? Is it only be cause he dressed up in a derby hat and tramp’s pants? persona he created,” Alle Tuesday’s USA Today. “And I’m not my persona, sit at home drinking writer’s block. I don’t havea lationship with my sister, kidnap my kid. I didn’t Coney Island, and myfathen work bumper cars. Butpeop't it’s true.” LEARN TO FLY NOW At United Flight Systems THE EXPERIENCED FLIGHT SCHOOL Learn to fly with the Cessna Pilot Center Exclusive Integrated Flight Training System °.<-sS£“" r for a ^onthU Cessna College Station Easterwood Airport 409 260-6322 www.unitedflight.com ■ Private adva^ trains T how to ing. 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