Whit in the World

What are the rules of dating? A question that has plagued the dating world for years, but the perfect set of rules have yet to surface or descend from the heavens to be written on stone. Every magazine and television show can tell you a set of rules to follow. but they all seem to come up (fall?) short. The rules that you once followed in high school no longer apply once you hit the college arena, and once you hit the "real world" the rules are bound to change once again. So then, what are “MY dating rules?” I have come to the conclusion that the rules of dating should be based on basic human interaction, or in better words, they should cover all relationships. Dating is just a type of relationship and that is what a lot of people seem to forget as they enter a dating relationship. Even I sometime forget that simple fact. Instead of making specific rules to follow for dating or reading books that tell you how to find the "perfect...

March 19, 2010 Turlington Plaza- University of Florida When the 2007 Summer B Preview students walked around campus there was one major warning from the Preview Staffers and that was to beware of the "Set". "If necessary avoid it like the plague or you will be glued to one spot for the whole day and miss classes." A year later the same location soon went from having a daily BUZZ to a soft hum that could not be differentiated from the rest of the University of Florida's campus life. And by the time the 2009-2010 academic year rolled around the "Set" no longer existed but instead was simply Turlington Plaza. Courteous  CLAS One Friday during February it seemed as if Turlington Plaza would reclaim its rightful name amongst students as the "Set" when Black Student Union ’s Black History Month Cabinet hosted "Reclaiming the Set". It seemed as if things were going to be like ‘the good old days’, with tons of people and nonsto...

February 8, 2010 Grand Ballroom, Reitz Union Anticipation has been mounting for him to arrive to the scene and everyone is anxious. People are about to attend an event that they normally would disregard as another boring ACCENT production but not this time. Twitter is a buzz with comments ranging from “I can’t wait” to “I normally would never attend a BHM event that wasn’t greek related but this will be my first”.  So who has the University of Florida students turning a new leaf and even the local community giddy? Courtesy  ModeOne The author of three books, “CSI:NY” star and actor, Hill Harper. Over 700 hundred people gathered to listen to his wonders of wisdom, courage and advice. The audience was as diverse as the speaker himself, with an array of age groups and ethnicities filling the Grand Ballroom.  The show was presented by ACCENT and co-sponsored by Black History Month and the Black Graduate Student Organization for the 2010 Black His...