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Page 3 • Tuesday, July 15,
Meeting that special someone
Students talk about the pros and cons of meeting people on the Internet
By Daniel Chapman
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Dating Web sites have
sprung up all over the Internet,
allowing people to create pro
files in hopes of meeting that
special someone. However, a
negative stigma is attached to
this new trend.
Eric Aley, a 2003 Texas
A&M graduate, feels Internet
dating is not a good way to
meet people.
“There is no quality control
in Internet dating because it’s
too quick, easy and free to cre
ate a profile,” he said.
However, Jason Salas, a sen
ior biomedical sciences major,
agrees that Internet dating is
easy for everyone, but it allows
people with similar interests to
find each other.
“Some people think that
meeting someone online is only
for unpopular people who can’t
get dates the traditional way, but
it’s not true,” he said. “It only
makes it easier to meet someone
with similar interests, but once
that is done, you still have to see
if you’re compatible in person.”
Christina Croxell, a senior
environmental design major,
said the easy access to online
dating services is what makes it
worth her time.
“It’s faster to meet people
over the Internet because once
you actually meet in person,
you have already learned the
basic facts about the other per
son so you can skip the small
talk,” she said.
Keeping with the trend of
Internet dating and finding peo
ple with similar interests, A&M
students can now access a dat
ing site, Aggiedating.com, that
aims to bring Aggies together.
Entrepreneur Brad Armstrong
has set up several online dating
sites that are designed for peo
ple who already have something
in common.
“The great thing about
AggieDating.com is that it
focuses on a particular market
segment that already has some
thing in common,” Armstrong
said. “With most online dating
services, you’re dealing with a
national base of people who
have very disparate interests and
experiences. AggieDating.com,
on the other hand, starts off with
a common denominator - either
an association with or interest in
Texas A&M.”
His desire to bring people
together can be seen in his other
ventures. With
AggieDating.com being his
fourth site, he has already helped
out runners with
runingsingles.com, University
of Texas students with long-
hornsingles.com and cyclists
with cyclingsingles.com.
The creators of AggieDating.com
have found that online dating has
become an increasing avenue that
many people are using.
Experiencing growth daily,
they hope to expand to make the
site as effective as possible.
“We have had an amazing
response,” Armstrong said.
“With nearly 3,000 registered
users, one third providing photo
graphs, and dozens online every
day looking for a special rela
tionship. Thus far, less than 10
percent of the registered cus
tomers have decided to send an
e-mail to another person they’ve
fftimriTTTMTTi
found on the site and begin pay
ing for confidential e-mail serv
ice, but the number of paid sub
scribers increases each day.”
Some students agree that
bringing people with the same
interests together has never
been an easy thing to do, and
now they can do just that with
this site.
Mary Wesson, a sophomore
child psychology major, felt
slightly betrayed when she
found out the site wasn’t free.
“I’m always up for meeting
new people, but I didn’t know it
would cost money,” she said. “I
think it’s stupid that they want
money... what happened to the
Aggielove and helping out
other Aggies?”
Kristopher Ware, a sophomore
general studies major, found out
about AggieDating.com through
his neo e-mail account and feels
that if you want to base a site on
Aggie values you shouldn’t charge.
“I personally don’t want to
pay for it at all, because I think
it should be free for Aggies to
meet other Aggies,” he said. “
There shouldn’t be a price in
order to make new friends.”
Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines
Warner Bro.
Though it primarily functions as a 2
1/2 hour preview for "Terminator 4,"
"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" is
an adept continuation of the technolo
gy-minded Terminator series that first
brought visions of nuclear war and the
ultimate fear of a machine takeover to
the big screen in 1984.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is, as his
famed T1 line reads back - this time as
a more sophisticated cybernetic organ
ism, though Terminator fans will note
this model is quite a bit older than his
1984 and 1991 editions. This
Terminator is sent back in time to pro
tect key target John Connor (Nick
Stahl), now a twenty-something bum
with no address.
A striking female Terminator called
the T-X (Kristanna Loken) has just
enough supremacy to outdo the T-800
Schwarzenegger model in a few impor
tant battles. The T-X's targets also
include Connor's future lieutenants in
the man vs. machine war of the 2020s.
One thing abundant in the film is
believability. Director Jonathan Mostow,
banking on the widespread success of
the previous two movies, didn't work
hard enough to the characters the
credibility they needed to embrace the
concept of a world war between man
and machine. Instead, he relies on the
audience's experience with the
Terminator storyline to gain their trust.
In "T3," all future Connor lieutenant
and love interest Kate Brewster (Claire
Danes) needs to believe in the incom
prehensible machine takeover is a few
words of explanataion from John,
whom she knew briefly in junior high.
Director Mostow leaves too little real
time for Brewster to process and accept
all that she witnesses in the span of a
few morning hours, leaving a movie
grounded in science fiction in trouble
with those who need a reality check.
Also absent from this Terminator
movie is the basic emotion that held
the story together through the first
two movies. Brewster is allowed pre
cious few tears over her dead fiance
and father, but in T1 the central emo
tion is shown in a brilliant and
heartaching love scene, the only
moments Sarah Connor and Kyle
Reese have together.
Sarah's disappearance from the film
is also disturbing. John tells Brewster in
T3 that his mother died of leukemia
after ensuring Judgment Day doesn't
come as scheduled in 1997, leading
critics and audience alike to wonder
why Sarah was written off.
Director James Cameron's touch is
missing in this continuation of the story,
but the strength of the story carries fans
through to the unexpected and conse
quential ending.
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