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Love and War

H ave you ever thought their relationship. Why?

that love is war? A woman has the same

Sometimes it is difficult right to win as a man.

to distinguish between Ju st ask Susan

the two. It often seems Lovegrove about the

as if Machiavelli is play­ time she beat Mike

ing cupid. Some people Towler in a game of H-

use the “rules” of war in O-R-S-E. She wasn’t one

the “game” of love. bit timid; she enjoyed

For instance, how the triumph. Her mes­

many of the “gentler sage is, “Take some

half’ have ever lost a pride in your abilities.”

sporting event on pur­ It does help for “your

pose? Isn’t that a little m an ” to be self-

deceptive — like one of confident enough to

those “rules of war?” support you. Mike took

Imagine a scenario in his defeat in stride. With

which a woman, in the a smile on his face, he

middle of a ping-pong or said, “I may have lost a

basketball game, obvi­ little basketball game,

ously doing better than but in the end I got the

their her boyfriend, los­ girl!” Real men aren’t

es because she wants to afraid to lose.

salvage his male ego and

Mike and Susan enjoy playing

H-O-R-S-E and “ one-on-one”

on the newly paved, fenced-in

tennis court, which doubles as a

half-court basketball court. The

outdoor court is popular among

the students who take advan­

tage of the warm Florida sun­

shine and the rnild evenings.

Susan and Mike share a bench

by the water fountain in front of

Dambach Hall while they wait

for the Chapel doors to open.

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