MSC Hospitality presents...
CRAFT FAlft
Dec. 2nd & 3rd
MSC
Thurs. 10-5 & Fri. 10-4
Come find unique, handmade
crafts from over 80 vendors and Mother's Clubs.
Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs
We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to
assist you to the best of our abilities nr
1 20x20 Party Canopy
40 Chairs
5 8ft. Banquet Tables
1 Beverage Cooler
6ft Grill
$155 + Tax
"There’s a Reason to Party Everyttay--
Come to us to get your party starteMU’
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College Station, IX 77845
(409) 696-5696
DELIVERY AVAILABLE
LAW TALK
from STCL
Join Professor of Law Helen Jenkins
and a panel of attorneys
taking live call-in questions
Tomorrow
Friday, November 12,1999
at 8:00 p.m. on KAMI! - TCA Channel 4
Each show in this monthly series will focus on a different topic.
This Friday, the program will deal with landlord and tenant law.
I PET PARADISE 1
1104 C Harvey Rd.
College Station
693-4575
Hill’s
1873 Briarcrest
Bryan
774-PETS
HELP us Nov.9- Dec. 15
help PHOEBE’S HOME
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your puchase
and be eligible for
other specials.
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CELEBRATION
“The Culmination of Excellence
Through Heritage"
Thursday
Dec. 2, 1999
MSC 201
7 PM
Presentations on principles & symbols of Kwanzaa
M Elementary school Kwanzaa art entries on display
)K Kwanzaa books and afrocentric novelties on sale
Reception
co-sponsered with
African Student Association
Persons with disobilities please call 845-1515 lo inform ns of your special needs. We
request notification three working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to
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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.”
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