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. Editorials Tutorial: 1-3: Origami Hearts for Your Valentine! Tutorial and pictures provided by Isabel Benson, staff writer 4-6 ■ 8. 9- Use a 6”x6” piece of paper (printer paper folded to make a square with the end cut off) Make two perpendicular creases in the paper Fold the top corner to the center of the creases Fold the bottom corner to the top of the previous fold Fold the right side to meet the crease in the center Fold the left side to meet the center Turn the heart over and fold those pesky pointed edges down. Use a coin to make these creases so they stay Decorate the outside! You can write a friendly or loving message on the in side! Then hand them out to all of your friends or loved ones! 7-9: What’s Love Got To Do With It? I Don’t Care, I Love It Katy Koop, staff writer Valentine’s Day is “great”. I know what you might be thinking-it’s not the mov ie franchises, the idea of true love, the wonderful plans I have with my imaginary boyfriend, or even the amazing puns. It is the sheer commercialism and the exploitation of people’s love and affection. Companies like Target, American Greetings, The Hershey Company, flow- ers.com, and Tiffany and co. are all out to sell consumers their sweet, sticky idea of “true love”. It isn’t just Disney movies, your parents’ glossed over romance story, or Nicholas Sparks tell ing you love is out there - it’s the merchandise. Every amazing font, cute animation, and disgust ingly catchy jingle is made just for you. Just so you’ll spend an extra buck on an otherwise ordinary February day. Fairy tales may say that to be happy. a girl needs to find true love, but as Valentine’s Day proves - the only love a girl needs is between her and a major corporation. Luckily, it isn’t just couples that give gifts on Valentine’s Day. Everyone likes to give, and more importantly, get stuff. This isn’t a new thing in terms of major holidays. People may give pres ents on Christmas but what makes Valentine’s Day different is that it is all about you. It’s not about family togetherness, unity or caring for the less fortunate, it’s that “if I buy this, maybe one day someone will love me” and lots of people are out there are buying into that hope. As The History Chan nel and Column Five find, $448 million dollars are spent on can dy the week before Valentine’s Day, 36 million heart shaped boxes are sold, and 150 million gifts are sent each year for this fateful day. Not to mention the 58 million pounds of chocolate and 174,000 gallons of spar kling wine sold on Valentine’s Day. Maybe it’s just the roman tic in me, but numbers like that warm the cockles of my heart. The idea that all the glitter, pink and purple hearts, fluffy ani mals, and yes, all that chocolate isn’t for the idea of true love, but for the love of money is the American Dream, isn’t it? If your significant other showers you with presents and gifts, you won’t have a doubt in your mind that they really love you and that you deserve to be loved? Whether you and that special person will be drinking pink champagne by candle light or you’re blasting Adele while you eat a giant chocolate heart- love© is all around. I, for one, will be celebrating Valentine’s Day the way it was meant to be celebrated: eating pink cake and photoshopping Tom Hiddleston into family photos. However you choose to thank our corporate overlords, have a great valen- time. Bri Crumbley, contributing writer Valeiitirie's Day; it’s become a day that many love to hate. I get it. It’s ev erywhere. Valentine’s mer chandise closely chases the Christmas decorations off of the shelves. Some people hate Valentine’s Day be cause they only view it as the overly commercialized unnecessarily materialistic “Hallmark Holiday” that it has become. If we look at the story of (one of the many) St. Valentine, we could say that we are celebrating the life of a man who performed illegal marriages, or we can just call it what it should be, a day where we celebrate one another, and enjoy car ing and being cared for; a celebration of love of all kinds. Not just romantic love, but friend love, filial love, and the overall love of candy, the color red, and glitter! Can we just embrace the grade school nostalgia and enjoy the cheesiness of it all? All conversation hearts, and chocolates con sidered, Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be a day where people in relation ships feel -obligated to get together and spend unnec essary amounts of money; it’s a day of celebration for both the attached and the unattached. Make it a Gal- entine’s Day. Call a friend, or find a new one, make the celebration simple and fun. Wear a red sweater, dot your “i’s” with hearts, have a cupcake, and just let life be sweet for a day. Meredith Hacks: Life Hacks for Avenging Angels! This week: What You May Not Know About the Library Fantasia Evans, staff writer Most of us don’t skip and jump with excitement at the thought of spending the afternoon in the li brary like my two-year-old daughter does. Most Mondays she gets to come to campus and spend the afternoon in the children’s literature section located on the bottom floor of Carlyle Camp bell library. She sits at the child-sized table and pretends to read. Unlike my toddler, for college students’ spend ing the afternoon in the library means doing homework, writing papers, and studying for an A on that exam we’ve been stressing over. You may be sur prised to know all the library has to of fer Meredith College students. If you’re roommate is too loud or you’re like me and can’t accomplish anything when there is a bed or TV near, the library has quiet study rooms available and group study areas to be reserved when needed. The rooms are colorful and in viting with beanbags and other tools to help you study. For the commuter, the library is a home away from home. It’s a warm and comfortable environment that comes complete with a knowledge-. able and friendly staff. The library also offers a number of services you may not already be aware of: audio/visual equipment that includes; camcord ers, digital cameras, overhead projec tors, laptops and much more as well as kindle e-readers. The staff also pro vides a bookbinding service available to students. There are certain guide lines for doing so available on the li brary website. For your entertainment purposes there is a yearlong book sale for the cost of one dollar, and DVDs can also be rented. Dean of Library Sciences, Laura Davidson noted that the most valuable resources are, “the people that work here. They want to help Meredith students find the infor mation they need for their research to connect them with the equipment (cameras, microphones, computers etc.) they need for class assignments and special projects, and provide fun things.” Next time you’re feeling over whelmed just take some time to enjoy the quiet atmosphere and all that Car lyle Campbell has to offer.
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