To the Editor:
I write in regard to the article in the Valentine's Day issue, "Love and Dartmouth: a contradiction in terms?" (Feb.14).
As far as I see it love is alive and well on this campus. You just need to know where to look. Love is probably not going to be found running around in frat basements or at the Hinman Boxes at lunch hour, but is it out there. Out of my close friends, I could name eight or nine people that are involved in long term loving relationships, myself included. That does not mean that they are all huggy-kissy walking across the Green or that they are going to get married as soon as they graduate, but that there are people in love on this campus. As I see it, the problem is not with a lack of love, it is just with the expression of love. I'm sure many people are in love but are afraid to let people in on their secret for fear of being called "whipped" or of people saying they have a "ball and chain."
Sometimes it seems that we are immersed in an extention of junior high relationships ..."do you like him? or do you like him, like him?" People should just face up to their feelings and not be afraid of what other people think. Love exists between two people, that's it.
Oh, and by the way ... Rich, I love you.
ILSA WEBECK '94
