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Gianna Horcher | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Your guide to getting off the ‘no kiss’ list

Analise Bruno February 18, 2025
Let me tell you a secret: no matter how sexually confident someone comes across  — and no matter how many people they’ve kissed or hooked up with — deep down, most of us are all experiencing one major feeling — doubt.
Liza Berdykulova | Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (Or Analise): If you like it, then should you put a promise ring on it?

Analise Bruno January 21, 2025
Well, Beyoncé said it best — if you like it, then you should probably put a ring on it. You know, just in case somebody else does.  “Single Ladies” perhaps takes a bit too literal of an approach to the message here, but you get the idea: don’t take for granted what’s right in front of your face. And when it comes to relationships, sometimes the solution to that thing is a ring — a promise ring, to be exact.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Being a hopeless romantic in the age of hookup culture is devastating | The Perfectly Imperfect Human Condition

Lillian Chapman February 28, 2024
With how dominant hookup culture is, it feels so wrong to want a love similar to what I read about and see in films. And yet, I continue to hope for what could be because the idea of a great love is more tolerable than living without one.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (or Analise): Should we all be dating to marry?

Analise Bruno February 4, 2024
Yes, I know. Hook-up culture is a major deal to some people, especially those who are looking for a meaningful relationship only to be hit in the face with something casual. This bids the question: should we really be so quick to trap ourselves in the marriage bubble? 
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: College dating services provide common ground, connection

Editors March 30, 2021
Marriage Pact and Datamatch connect the community and offer a good substitute for meet-cutes.
MINTZ: Hooking Up is Hard to Do

MINTZ: Hooking Up is Hard to Do

Casey Mintz October 28, 2014

Around 1 a.m. Sunday, I realized that I had lost one of my friends. Not lost in the greater sense, but just physically, in that moment, lost. One second, she was by my side at the party we were at, and...

College ‘hookup culture’ can cause despair in students, researcher finds

Daily Free Press Admin April 18, 2013

Fleeting sexual encounters with no commitment or meaning, the practice of which is referred to as “hookup culture,” might contribute to a sense of unhappiness in college students, according to a...

MARK: To date a Fat Guy

Daily Free Press Admin March 19, 2013

When it comes to courtship, the traditional “date” has all but vanished, and I find the alternatives to be a little depressing. Let me clarify: If you’ve been in a relationship with someone for...

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