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Long-distance love
Students talk about their experiences with long-distance relationships
By Kristin McNulty
THE BATTALION
Students who enter into a relation
ship during the school year may find
themselves separated for the summer
because of different responsibilities
and goals.
“Neither of us wanted it to happen,
but we knew our feelings for each
other were so strong that we decided
to go for it,” said Kara Hill, a sopho
more architecture major.
Hill is in a long-distance relation
ship with her boyfriend Chris, who
lives in Norfolk, Va.
She said they both entered the rela
tionship with a pessimistic view.
“He was afraid that I was going to
cheat on him, and I was afraid of
doing this long-distance thing forev
er, ” Hill said.
She said she and Chris talk on the
phone for one to two hours a day, and
she makes the most of their time
together when she sees him.
“I know our relationship will be
stronger when this is all over with,”
Hill said.
Unlike Hill’s relationship, some
long-distance relationships are not so
fortunate to stand the test of time.
Olivia Harrington, a sophomore
accounting major, said her relation
ship did not work out for the better.
“I was doing all of the work to see
him; he didn’t seem to care,”
Harrington said.
With her living at home and her
boyfriend away at college, Harrington
was skeptical of being courted long
distance.
“I knew the distance would be
some kind of barrier, but I wanted to
give it a shot anyway,” she said.
Even with the hour-long phone
conversations daily, Harrington said
she knew it would not work.
“I was taking it more seriously
than he was and that hurt me. Then the
relationship ended,” Harrington said.
Stephen Blake, author of “Loving
Your Long Distance Relationship,”
gives advice to couples going through
a long-distance relationship:
“Through college, I experienced a
long-distance relationship. Everyone
told me that it couldn’t work, but they
were wrong and I wanted to share that
with couples.”
Blake said love and understanding
are worth preserving in any relation
ship, regardless of the miles that may
separate two people.
Blake gives advice on how couples
can cope with saying goodbye again
and again. “Make the most out of your
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
time together. Stay away from the air
port and stay focused on long term
plans versus the moment,” says Blake.
He als)o says to keep phone conver
sations short, light, frequent and
information based. Constant phone
arguments, avoidance and long-term
plans that never seem to synchronize
are all signs that the relationship is in
trouble.
Some factors might increase the
odds that a long-distance relationship
will last, said Kate Morris, a psychol
ogy professor at Butler University.
“The younger you are, the less you
would know what you want out of life
and a relationship,” she said.
Morris said the length of time
spent together before entering the
long-distance relationship and person
ality are also factors to consider in
distanced courtship.
“If you start out with time together,
you are more likely to survive the dis
tance, Morris said. However, if you
are the type of person to sit around
and mope, a long-distance romance
could be tough.”
For those who are enduring, or
have yet to endure, this test of time,
Blake says, “Distance cannot and will
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not hurt a bond between two people
that is based on mutual respect, trust,
comiyiitment and love. Although you
may feel like you are losing faith in
your relationship at times, hold fast
and trust your heart.”
Sandler marries
model-actress
Titone in Malibu
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Adam
Sandler married model-actress
Jackie Titone in an outdoor cer
emony that was attended by
celebrity friends and his pet
bulldog dressed in a custom
tuxedo.
"Sandler got married," the
comic's Web site said.
"Woopity Doo!"
Sandler's publicist, Cipdy
Cuagenti, confirmed the mar
riage Monday.
Photographs of Sunday's
nuptials showed "The Wedding
Singer" star in a black tuxedo
and white yarmulke, and
Titone in a white gown with
spaghetti straps, standing
among hanging pale rose bou
quets and chairs draped with
pink satin.
Sandler's dog, Meatball,
appears in one photo wearing
a black tuxedo jacket and a
white yarmulke of his own.
It was the first marriage for
Sandler, 36, and Titone, 28.
Titone has appeared in
Sandler's movies, including as
a waitress in "Big Daddy" and
an angel in "Little Nicky."
Sandler also has four music
albums "They're all gonna
laugh at you," "What the hell
happened to me," "What's your
name?" and "Adam Sandler:
Stan and Judy's Kid."
On the Net: Adam Sandler
Website: adamsandler.com
Rapper Nelly hopes
to be bone marrow
match for sister
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Grammy-win-
ning rapper Nelly was on hand as
hundreds of residents turned out
to register as potential bone mar
row donors. He hopes one might
be a match for his ailing sister.
Jacqueline "Jackie" Donahue,
30, was diagnosed with
leukemia in 2001. The cancer
was in remission for nearly two
years before she suffered a
relapse in January, she said. It
was then she learned she would
need a bone marrow transplant.
Bone marrow drives were held
over the weekend at America's
Center in St. Louis and at the
Hollywood Park Casino in Los
Angeles.
Among those who registered
Saturday were Ashley Donahue,
Donahue's 20-year-old sister,
and Nelly, whose real name is
Cornell Haynes Jr. The event
Saturday produced 1,025 new
donors.
In March, Nelly and his ailing
sister formed a campaign
dubbed "Jes Us 4 Jackie" to find
donors for Jackie Donahue and
others, and to raise awareness
about bone marrow donations.
Nelly's nonprofit organization, 4
Sho 4 Kids, sponsored the
Saturday event. ; )
Even if a match is found for
Donahue, efforts to register
donors will continue, Nelly said.
"It could be someone else's
brother or sister," he said.
Max Factor heir
leaves evidence in
hotel room
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -
Cosmetics heir and former
fugitive Andrew Luster left
behind a notebook in Mexico
in which he apparently seeks
to justify the assaults that led
to his rape conviction, accord
ing to a published report.
The notebook was stored
among other belongings at the
Puerta Vallarta hotel where
Luster last stayed, according to
an article published in the
Ventura County Star's Sunday
edition.
Authorities could not confirm
if the handwriting was that of
Luster. A Star reporter who had
covered Luster's trial recog
nized the 13 pages of hand
writing as belonging to Luster.
The great-grandson of cos
metics magnate Max Factor,
Luster jumped his $1 million
bail in January, shortly before a
Ventura County jury convicted
him in absentia of drugging
and raping three women in his
seaside home in Mussel
Shoals, northwest of Los
Angeles.
On Wednesday, Luster, 39,
was arrested by Mexican police
after he scuffled with bounty
hunters in front of a Puerta
Vallarta taco stand. On
Thursday, the FBI flew him
back to California, where he
immediately started serving his
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