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October 23, 19861Westem Maryland CollegelPage 5 60 Seconds on Campus The Board of Trustees here today. What would you like to them? What is your opinion Try to control rising Why are the fresh- How come you don't The Commission's on the diversity of the tuition costs. man honor students write? Report on Student student population? isolated from the rest Life did a great job of Should there be a of us? It makes them revealing everyone's greater diversity of look like they're supe- opinions on student -ethnic groups? rior. life - except the stu- dents! Lynburg Scott Billy Brewster Lee Spector Ken Hammann Patrick Shank _ Jonathan Slade Long distance romances never work H Absence makes the heart grow attempted to maintain such a mentioned on the topic. Nothing message. was forced to use the pay phone. fonder." relationship for more than a year. more. Two days later J got a Well, anyone who wants to This annoyed me to no end. The first idiot romantic to Some may claim with merit that I letter back reading, "Dear Jon. throw water on an old flame, just especially when operators insisted \ scratch this piece of wisdom out am a slow leamer, but I did Why did you have a great time send her some dot-matrixed sweet on interrupting our conversations i on a diary page obviously didn't eventually draw one conclusion last weekend?" nothings. I haven't heard from during the most passionate know much about love. Either from this tribulation: If someone On another occasion I finished my heart throb since. moments. that, or else he knew for certain tells me that he is enjoying a up a bit of correspondence with "Jane, remember wben_._:' that his proverb was wrong, but romance via Ma Bell and the the sappy expression. "I miss The second major reason my "Please deposit ninety-five wrote it down anyhow, hoping to postal service, he is either lying you." In this instance she pen pal love affair dissipated was cents," a harsh smoker's use the phrase to console his wife to the girl at the other end, or answered me as if I had barricaded that I called her regularly. What? monotone would break in. everytime he and his secretary lying to himself. myself in my donn room and Regularly? Again the counselors I'd usually put our romance on departed for the Virgin Islands on become a recluse, all because 1 and casanovas will not believe hold and spend the next minute business. Here's whX my long distance hadn't seen her in three months. me. It seems, though, that she (and another dollar) cussing the love affair failed: First, I wrote "Get out and meet some people," thought my frequent telephone intrusive woman out. Indeed, anyone who has ever letters. That's right, the she commanded me in print I tete-a-tetes were designed recheck tried to maintain a long distance relationship self-destructed knew she really didn't want me to, up on her. So. to please my Somehow I wasn't surprised romance realizes that absence does because I wrote. Letters suffer though. (Yes, even I began to belle, 1 stopped calling, only to when Jane stopped writing. not strengthen one's love, but from being overly ambiguous and read between the lines.) get a letter from her a week later No matter what any Ivy League instead allows our memories to females, I have found, often spend My greatest mistake. however, asking if I had lost interest in the psychologist says, though, I've fade. Sadly, it doesn't take forever more time reading between the was sending her a letter composed relationship. Thus. 1 began learned that no amount of to forget the hue of her eyes, the lines than looking at your actual in the school's new word phoning her again, and the double communication can make up for a caress of her hand. the speUing of words. Once I made the mistake processing lab. I was just bind cycle started allover. lack of proximity. her name. I am, I must admit, of scrawling the line, "I had a learning how to use the machines Absence makes the hean grow writing from experience, for in great time last weekend at a and I decided to take the Unfortunately at college, fonder? Don't bet on it Distance my naivete I campus movie." That's all I opportunity to drop her a quick though. I had no calling card and makes a lover wander.