Author Archives: Janice Edman

Janice Edman Two weeks and one day. In that amount of time I will be rid of this desolate, cold quarter and off to sunnier pastures for a week of blissful, completely non-educational enjoyment. While I never plan far enough ahead for those pricey spring break trips that all the cool kids go on, I […]

Janice Edman             I have a group of guy friends who went to Prague, Czech. a while ago, and, as any group of American guys in Prague would do, they hopped off the train and immediately found the sleaziest strip club possible. Much to their collective delight, they realized it wasn’t just a strip club, […]

Janice Edman So we’ve seen the articles. We’ve heard the news. We’ve opened the door to cops bearing pamphlets and hopeful smiles. We get it: The party is still over. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend this Feb. 28 actually doing homework or studying for the midterm your witch-of-a-bio-teacher scheduled for the next […]

Janice Edman             As that oh-so-romantic time of year fast approaches, guys and girls alike rack their brains to find the most amorous way to spend Valentine’s.  But whereas SLO is popular with the older crowd thanks to its quaint charm and lack of gang violence (except during Mardi Gras of course), our little hamlet […]

Janice Edman In his monumental work “Amores,” the prolific Ovid wrote poem after poem dedicated to finding love, keeping love and getting rid of love when it became tiresome. The whole process began with the sharp prick of an arrow from sly Cupid’s bow ” what we dreamily now call “love at first sight.” The […]

Janice Edman             Relationship experts argue that the backbone of every relationship is a healthy compromise between the two partners. In fact, compromise is necessary in nearly every situation a couple will face, from the little things like what movie to rent, to the big questions, like where to spend holidays. In an article entitled “Compromise […]

Janice Edman There’s dancing, and then there’s . . . dancing. There’s “gliding, stepping or moving through a set series of movements, usually to music,” according to the Merriam- Webster’s Desk Dictionary, and then there’s “an overtly sexual form of dance performed in clubs and at high school dances,” according to urbandictionary.com. Since Webster has […]