Sherman Yau welcomes the chance to talk about how a suicidal gunman shot him at Northern Illinois University last Valentine̢۪s Day. Sharing the experience, he says, has been essential to his healing.
As I walked around campus this week I noticed something strange in the Free Speech Area. Scribbled innumerous times on the ground were the words “Ask Her.”
It has returned to taunt the single and haunt the unrequited. Valentine̢۪s Day is amongst us once again, and if you hope to survive it, I suggest going big or going home.
“It’s going to be a Valentine’s epidemic,â€Â said Kyle Hailey, a senior liberal studies major as he arranged a vase of delphiniums in the Ornamental Horticulture Floral Unit lab.
Raindrops on windows and sun through the curtains, warm cups of cocoa with whispers of cinnamon, books full of poems that give my soul wings: These are my favorite Saturday things.
AS SINGLES AWARENESS DAY approaches, I only get more and more cynical toward a single day of the year selected for epic amounts of public displays of affection.
Love is in the air, or at least in every store window, magazine, commercial on television and Web site. Whether you have a significant other this Valentine̢۪s Day or not, it is hard to ignore.
Do you have any plans for Valentine̢۪s Day? What are your thoughts about the holiday?
Be sure to read the print edition of next Friday̢۪s issue of The Collegian for featured comments.
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