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Oshawa recently came under fire when a volunteer
cameraman, Billy Steel, who worked for Rogers
Television while working at an Oshawa
General’s hockey game, approached
Don Cherry to ask him
about his tie.
This indiscretion as Rogers
called it, led to the company removing
the cameraman from his position.
Celebrities are constantly being
approached by people, whether
it be at their job or just on the street, so why should
this be any different.
The fact that makes this story even worse is that
Steel was removed from the position and is only 17.
According to his father, Billy has a learning disability
and has been in trouble with the law for many years,
that is until a year ago when Billy befriended the Generals
and turned his life around.
The company that runs the General Motors Centre,
Global Spectrum, angered Don Cherry when the
Toronto Star ran an article with his name in it that
made it seem like he agreed with what Rogers did.
Cherry said he loves it when kids come up and talk to
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OPINION
He just wanted to
shake his hero’s hand
him. “That is the reason that I wear these goofy ties.”
I feel if a person in the media has been approached,
it is their decision whether or not
they will answer someone’s ques-
tions.
As a result of the incident the
father of the young cameraman is
looking at the option of suing the
city as well as the General Motors
Centre for punitive damages and
any wages the youth might have
earned. I think if the case gets to court there will be
a lot of empathy for the youth, as most people would
find it hard to do what this young man did. Even I
have a couple of stories of going up to celebrities and
wanting to talk to them, not just because I am in the
field of journalism, but because it is just human nature
to want to be around successful people and for
that brief moment in time feel like we are a real somebody
to someone.
The greatest thing I can see coming from this is that
even though the youth does not get to cover the Oshawa
General’s games, no one will ever be able to take
away the feeling of meeting someone he admired.
Paul
Bates
Not all chicks like lame flicks
I don’t like chick flicks. You
would think that all women love
them, but that is just a cliché.
Why don’t I like chick flicks?
Nothing against them personally,
they usually have decent story
lines and
can get you
a little teary
eyed, but
they are just
so disgustingly
sappy
and unrealistic
when it
comes down
to it. Sometimes it makes me want
to throw up. I watched a movie
the other night called He’s Just Not
That Into You. The characters had
their rejection, one guy cheated on
his wife, and the other girl left her
boyfriend of seven years, but in the
end most of it worked out and they
were happy.
In all chick flicks, someone
usually falls in love and lives happily
ever after, blah blah blah. Well
where is my prince charming to
come sweep me off my feet so I
Shayna
Brown
Is it just me or has dating become
more impersonal in recent
years? I mean I don’t find it hard to
meet men, and I’d be lying if I said
I can’t garner
my share of
attention from
the opposite
sex, but what
I do find difficult
is dealing
with this
modern technology
that is
now dictating the happenings of
my love life. I remember being 12
years old and getting a phone call
from my first boyfriend every day.
My mom of course hated it, and
can live happily ever after?
They make it so damn believable
and put false hope in your
head. Life isn’t as sweet and dandy
as it appears on the big screen.
Sure the characters fall for each
other and realize that they want to
be together. Good
for them. But what
about five, ten years
down the road? Are
they still together?
Are they happy?
Of course they are
in Hollywood, but
what about in reality?
The opposite sex is complicated
enough without adding sex
and dating into the equation. It’s
human nature to be horny and
want to fornicate with the opposite
sex. You will find yourself attracted
to numerous people in your life.
It’s when the attraction becomes
more, that it poses a problem.
Dating is a lot more complex
than it appears in movies. There is
no script in life. It doesn’t always
work out. There is no predetermined
outcome. It is all based
I of course loved it. But ten years
later I think my mom is the one
smiling because where the boys
are concerned my phone doesn’t
ring quite as much.
Though that
doesn’t mean they
Jamilah
McCarthy
don’t contact me.
My headaches
are a result of the
constant beeping
sounds from the
hundreds of text
messages I re-
ceive a day.
I used to love bragging to my
girlfriends about how my boyfriend’s
voice sounded when he
said he loved me. Now I get excited
on the decisions you make. And
people make bad decisions all
the time: date a jerk, cheat, have
a one-night stand. Quite often
there is the one that ‘got away’ or
you find yourself wondering well
what if? So what do you do when
you find yourself questioning your
life and the decisions you’ve made,
whether you’re going in the right
direction or if you’re with the right
person? Do we always want what
we can’t have? And do we want it
simply because we can’t have it or
because we really want it?
It is after watching these movies
and seeing the characters that
you can start to question your
decisions and question the whole
dating and relationship scene. Is it
just Hollywood glam or does Mr.
Right really exist? Are we just settling
for Mr. Right-now?
The opposite sex causes so
much drama. Mix in sex, dating
and relationships and you’ve got
one hell of a concoction. Love.
Sex. Relationships. Those three
words hold so much meaning, and
power its almost scary.
if in the text message he spells love
the correct way instead of “luv”.
There was a time when guys
would ask for my phone number,
now they ask for my MSN or
even worse my Facebook. Instead
of a phone call I get a notification
from a website telling me I’ve been
poked. It’s like I’m dating a computer
screen. There is an emoticon
for every emotion. When I tell my
friends “We got into a huge argument
last night,” I don’t mean there
was a lot of yelling, what I mean is I
pressed shift, colon and @ a lot.
I used to get phone calls. Now
I’m lucky if a guy says hi to me
when I sign online. And if he says
hi to me, does he really like me
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Save the
drama for
your mama
Finally. I was free of all the high school drama, all the immaturity.
I couldn’t wait to start my first year of college. I was becoming
an adult.When I walked into my first class at Durham College,
I was thrilled. No more desks with metal chairs attached. Most importantly,
no more acting like
children!
Krystie
Spittal
I couldn’t wait to see how
the next few years would unfold.My
first year of college
was spent living in residence.
I was under the impression
that residence was a good
way to meet friends, a conve-
nient place to live on campus and teaches you a sense of responsibility.
Well that all sure backfired.
Instead, I went through more drama than I can even begin to explain
because of the friends I had in residence. I began to take my
time getting to class since the school was so close, and ironically,
that usually made me late. And as for responsibility… lets just say I
was 17 and living on my own.
I did learn my lesson by my second year though. That’s when I
began to question if it was just me, or if a lot of people were still acting
as if they were in high school. That’s when I realized that college
is just the same as high school.
Since I failed four classes in my second semester of first year, I
had to retake them with a new group of first years. When I got to the
first class I couldn’t believe it. Everyone was sitting in their cliques
with no room for one more. I kept thinking to myself, this would
never happen in the “real world” that college is supposed to prepare
us for, if a new employee walks in and everyone just stares and then
looks away… how childish! To top it off, since I did not have a set
seat I sat at different tables every day listening to all the classmates
talk behind each other’s back. I could not believe I was in a college
classroom.
As I left my high school graduation, I remember talking about all
the differences between high school and college. Three years later,
in my last year of college, here I am. And if I have discovered anything
about college, it would be that college is just high school with
more comfortable chairs.
In the bathrooms, I sometimes see girls gather by the sinks and
gossip about friends and enemies, as they carefully look over their
hair and make-up. They will repeat this until perfection is achieved,
and the gossip has run dry. In the hallways as I walk past, I hear bits
and pieces of so-and-so sleeping with whoever’s boyfriend. Apparently
college does not free you from drama.
The maturity level of college students seems to be no better than
high school students. In my opinion, college is the period in a person’s
life where they should not only be shaping their future, but
growing up. Are we ready to grow up?
If you like me, don’t poke me, call me!
or is he just saying hi because
no one else is online and he’s
bored?Furthermore, I’m starting
to feel extremely weird about the
fact that I can tell what a guy is
thinking by the way he types.
It used to be that I could tell
a guy was upset if he paused
or sighed while we were on the
phone, now I know he’s upset or
confused if he takes longer than
30 seconds to type his response.
When friends ask, “How could you
tell he was mad?” my response
isn’t, “I could see it on his face,” my
response is, “Because he typed in
all caps.” The truth is you can never
really tell what a guy is doing behind
that computer screen.I’m sad
that computers now run the world
more than people do. I feel as if my
computer is the real me.
I feel like I don’t operate my
computer, my computer operates
me. I think dating would be a lot
easier if things went back to the
old days, when communication
was face-to-face or at least ear-toear.
A real relationship cannot be
based on Internet conversations
and anyone who believes it can is
living in denial.
So boys, next time you think of
approaching a girl get your phone
out, and although this is a crazy
notion, put her phone number
in it, instead of her Facebook, or
email address.