February 1,1995
Campus News
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Valentine's buying on a student budget
compiled by Addie Tschamler
• Nearly one week after
Wendell Willamson, a third-
year law student at UNC-
CH, shot at several people
along Franklin Street near
the college’s campus, fam
ily members of the two
killed in the shooting
mourn their losses. A man
ager trainee at McDonalds
and a former lacrosse player"
at UNC-CH were killed in
the shootings.
• Judge Lance Ito re
buked O.J. Simpson’s attor-
neyjohhnie Cochran, Mon
day, for hiding witnesses
form prosecution.Cochran
then continued his open
ing statement.
• The San Francisco
49’ers plowed over the San
Diego Charger Sunday as
Super Bowl XXK came to
an end.The final score was
49-26. It was a record fifth
Super Bowl title for San
Francisco, but it’s first with
new quarterback Steve
Young . Young received a
car and a trophy for his title
as Most Valuable Player.
»Former cabinet secre
tary and former congress
man Jack Kemp announced
that he will not run for
president in 1996. Kemp
has been suggested as a
possible Republican candi-
date,but he says he doesn’t
have the stomach for the
campaign. Kemp, 59,
joined former Defense Sec
retary Dick Cheney and
former Education Secretary
Bill Bennett in formally
withdrawing from the race.
by Melissa Massengil
O.K. It’s 13 days ‘till Valentine's
Day. Who’s already bought all her
tokens of affection? That many, huh?
Well, I guess I won’t be seeing any
of you at the mall scrounging around
half-empty racks and shelves and bat
tling it out with love-crazed women for
the last pair of heart boxers or silk ties.
I usually put the shopping off until the
last possible minute.
So think of me wandering around
Crabtree Valley this weekend, wonder
ing if my fiance would really enjoy that
fuzzy remote control cozy and trying to
take my small paycheck and make ro
mance.
Needless to say, I honestly think 1
could by some romantic items he'd
appreciate well in advance if it weren’t
for one small detail — lack of money.
Well, this year I’ve finally admitted
that my financial situation won’t be
getting any brighter in the next couple
of weeks, so I’ve decided to go to plan
B — I’m going to get creative.
I really never planned on using cre
ativity until 1 was trapped in a room
with 30 five-year-olds, but this is an
emergency.
Thinking long and hard, I came up
with a few ideas that could be helpful
for those of you with very little money
and not a lot of time to spare.
CD’s are probably the best choice
for less-than-one-month-old relation
ships. They’re impersonal,
unaffeaionate gifts that are relatively
inexpensive, especially when they’re
on sale.
You don’t want to invest twenty
bucks on a present if the relationship
doesn’t last two weeks after Cupid’s
visit.
For those of you with spicier ro
mantic involvements, why not baby
your baby with treats for his tub.
Make a gift basket of collected bath
and body supplies from Bath & Body
Works. Fill the basket with small bottles
of massage oil, lotion, cologne and a
loofah. Recycle those Easter baskets
and decorate them with red and white
ribbons, hearts and chocolates and fill
it with rose petal potpourri for a fra
grant scent.
Handmade frames make good gifts
also. Give them a special touch by
taking a picture of youandyour sweetie
and put them in a heart-shaped frame,
decorated with your lovinghands. They
make a gift your significant other will
keep for years to remind him of those
good times you’ve had together.
You should make sure to write the
year and a little message on the back of
the picture or frame for him.
If you want to get ambitious, try
this little trick I learned from the Dis
covery Charmel:
Take a dear glass plate and paint it
completely on both sides with the col
ors of his fiivorite team. Then cut out a
his team's emblem from a peruiant and
glue it to the plate’s surface with some
of that clear glueA^arnish that can be
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bought at craft stores. Gold sheeting,
also found a craft store, can be glued
around the rim.
This is a gift that will mean some
thing every time he roots for his team
during a game. Just make sure he
doesn’t use it to set his beer on. (Plus,
it’s alot cheaper than those commemo
rative plates of Elvis from the Franklin
Mint.)
And if you’re daring, you can paint
some of the team statistics and his
favorite players names on the back of
the plate. Also include your names, the
year, and a little message using sten
cils.
For the man/men in your life, there
are two gifts guaranteed never to fail
(and they’re inexpensive, too):
Hockey tickets and underwear.
Decorating plain white boxers with
fabric paints or appliques is quick and
easy to do. But let me caution you that
boxer shorts are really only appropri
ate for enduring relationships.
A litde less personal are the regular
store-bought undies. These are fre
quently on sale at the department stores
around this time for about $25 per
pair.
But don’t get the cotton ones. Ev
ery man I know prefers the silk, espe
cially those with the litde Warner Broth
ers cartoons or glow-in-the-dark hearts
and messages on them.
They’re cute, frivolous and comfy.
There isn’t a man in the world who
doesn’t love hockey. And you can get
a discount with college i.d.’s for Ice
Caps tickets. With the money you save
on the tickets, you can spring for the
beer, hot dogs and popcorn at the
game. And many of the players after
the game have been known to give out
hockey pucks, so you can present your
man with that as an added bonus. And
even if you don’t like hockey, just sit
there and look like you’re enjoying
yourself. (He’ll thank you for not com
plaining.)
Speaking of cartoons, Bugs Bunny
videos are a good choice also. Men, no
matter how serious, can’t resist them.
So now you can take that extra
money and buy a little something for
yourself. How about a box of choco
lates, or an aromatherapy candle, or a
tube of lipstick, or some sexy lingerie,
or...