Tuesday, February 10, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
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Cathy Hamilton, Lawrence resident, displays Boyfriend-in-a-Box. She now is designing Girlfriend-in-a-Box. Contributed photo
Popular gag gift boxed up for men
By Jeremy M. Doherty jdoherty@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Arriving on the heels of the successful gag gift Boyfriend-in-a-Box, the new Girlfriend-in-a-Box intends to fill the void in a single guy's life.
With PG-rated photos of imaginary sweethearts and loving notes of sweet nothings, Girlfriend-in-a-Box will hit store shelves by the end of the year.
Cathy Hamilton, Lawrence resident and creator of the products, said the response to Boyfriend-in-a-Box had been positive enough to warrant a sequel.
"The questions that people were asking started a chain reaction," Hamilton said. "From time to time, people kept asking me, 'Where's Girlfriend-in-a-Box?'"
Since Boyfriend-in-a-Box's introduction about a year ago, Hamilton has sold about 90,000 of the sets, mostly to women in the United States, Canada and Britain.
Hamilton had been considering the idea for Girlfriend in-a-Box since the development of the original product
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Melissa Thomson, Lenea freshman, said she thought men would get Lenea.
"It's a strange idea," Thomson said. "I don't think guys would take it seriously.
Last month, Hamilton launched a casting search asking women older than 18 to send in photos for consideration. Hamilton said she preferred pictures of a more candid, personal variety.
Some of the varieties Hamilton would like to develop are Trust Fund Tess, Domestic Dawn or Executive Elizabeth.
Girlfriend-in-a-Box will sell for about $10.
Long distance makes hearts grow tender
Sweethearts willing to travel to be together on special day
By Warisa Chulindra Special to the Kansan
Valentine's Day promises to be romantic for Amanda Smith, Crooks, S.D., freshman. She plans to have dinner with her boyfriend,
Brian Johnson, before attend-
he difference between Smith and other KU students is that she will drive five hours for her date. Johnson is a junior at the University of South Dakota in Vermilion.
This weekend many students will travel to be in the arms of the people they love, wait eagerly for their significant others to arrive or spend substantial time on the
Most college students in long-distance relationships are continuing a relationship from high school or continuing one with a college graduate.
phone.
Ike Ellis, Overland Park freshman, does not let a 40-minute drive hinder his relationship with girlfriend Chelsea White, a high school senior.
Ellis said they planned to stay together even when she moved to Minnesota for college.
This Valentine's Day weekend, the couple will be in Chicago enjoying a nice dinner and attending a concert.
Mary Ann Saul, a social worker for Counseling and Psychological Services, said honesty, contact, compromise and communication were needed to make a relationship work.
Most students agreed that long-distance relationships were not casual dating and often were long-term commitments.
Julia Gilmore, Clay Center freshman, said she and her boyfriend, Aaron Poleon, Kansas State University senior, had been together for more than three years and now were engaged.
Gilmore said they met when she was a freshman in high school and he was a freshman in college. Since then, they have grown accustomed to being separated.
Gilmore said Polson visited nearly every weekend and planned to be in Lawrence for Valentine's Day.
After being friends since
third grade and living the same neighborhood Danielle Christiano, Springfield, Mo., junior, and Andrew Smith, Southwest Missouri State University sophomore, kissed for the first time on Valentine's Day three years ago.
Although Christiano said they would not be able to spend the holiday together, she said she would make the 200-mile trip
birthday Feb. 17. She received a promise ring as a freshman, and the couple plans to marry.
Saul said students in long-distance romances should be careful not to isolate themselves from college life by becoming dependent on their partner.
Christiano said she had accepted that her boyfriend is far away.
Compassion paves road to love and marriage
"As time passes, I've gotten used to saying goodbye. It doesn't hurt as much," she said.
"After a while, you realize it's only a number of days before you see each other again."
By Ryan Vise
ome students associate college with wild sexual escapades.
Into any relationship, they should consider the time and effort it takes to make one work.
But for others, college is the first time they begin to think about serious relationships. Before students jump into any relationship, they should consider the time and effort it takes to make one work.
"The four or five years you spend in college are wonderful years to grow up, educate yourself and be on the lookout for people worth investing your time," said Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare. "We are social animals. We don't want to spend our lives alone, so we make it a goal to find someone to be with."
But finding someone and staying with that person through the trials of college are not easy.
"Commitment is deceiving," said Melissa Kelley, haven junior. "It starts out good, and everyone's on their best behavior, and you get along.
"People love that feeling, so they say 'Let's get married.' Then they start living together and noticing each others little habits, and they just let themselves go until it's over," she said.
Kelley said people needed to think through the decision to move a relationship to a new level before they did it.
More often than not, college provides the first opportunity to seriously think about marriage. The freedom college provides opens the mind, but it also can be blinding.
"One of the most irrational things you can do is be 18 or 19 and say you want to spend your entire life with someone," Dailey said. "This is fairly serious business."
Steve Parks, Louisberg freshman, said "I know I couldn't get married right now. I don't want to say I made a mistake when I'm older."
Parks has been dating Brandy Schaffer, Louisburg freshman, for more than a year. They plan to marry after graduation.
"I think the most important thing is to take it easy," Parks said. "Don't let little things bother you, and don't get stressed."
Marriage is the ultimate expression of commitment for some. But in an age when half of all marriages end in divorce, skeptics are everywhere.
"I'm definitely not getting married now," said Celia Shacklett, Lawrence senior. "I'm at that age that a lot of my friends are married, so I'm thinking about it in terms of people I know. But it's not for me."
Making a marriage work may seem difficult to some, but others think it is possible. Dailey said that a fair percentage of married couples met during college and that the key was not to let other activities take away from the relationship.
"Having a short-term relationship — like just getting laid — that's easy," Dailey said. "Commitment is physical, emotional, mystical and spiritual maintenance."
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