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Love can be difficult to explain
Couple tells how relationship works
Michelle Paulman/DN
Shining couple, Tyiesha Turner and Andre Woolridge, brighten each other’s days.
LOVE: What exactly is it? I’ve
never known a word to be used
so carelessly. How do you know
if you are in love? Do birds sing?
Do bells ring? 1 am mystified,
terrorized and baffled by the
word.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been
in love before. In fact I may have
even been in love twice. But
how did I know it was love? The
same way millions of other people
know they are in love. WE JUST
KNOW!
RELATIONSHIPS: That’s an
other scary word. How do you
start one? How do you maintain
one? But most of all, how do you
keep it exciting?
Maintaining a relationship is
hard work. But keeping a warm,
loving and compassionate rela
tionship and going to school full
lime, along with other school
activities, can be torturous.
I’m a firm believer in standing
by your man (or woman), but
our lives should not center on
our mates. You should have other
friends whom you can talk to
and activities that can keep your
mind off your bovfriend/girl
friend. There is sucn a thing as
suffocation!
But for one couple, suffoca
tion isn’t in their vocabulary.
Tyhiesha Turner and Andre
Woolridge have been dating for
three years. They met in the
summer of 1990 and declared
their love the following year. So
here’s the question again: How
do you really know when it’s
love?
“One day we went out, and it
was just all that," Turner said.
“You just know that this is the
person you want to be with."
Turner said being in love “is
just nice." Turner said she had
enough faith in her heart to af
firm her feelings for her boy
friend as soon as she felt them.
"He walked me to the door
and I told him — I said his whole
name," she said in a burst of
giggles. “‘I love you Andre
Woolridge,’ (and) he just looked
at me like I was stupid.”
Over the years Turner and
Woolridge’s relationship has
evolved from a weekend affair to
an everyday one, Woolridgesaid.
Both agreed that being in a
relationship was hard work.
“It is hard work because
people always wa nt to break you
up or just see ya not make it,"
Woolridge said.
“There’s never people who
say, ‘I want to see you get mar
ried,’” he said. “Sometimes they
do, but they really don’t mean it."
Both Turner and Woolridge
are confident that they will be
together beyond college.
“1 want to make sure I gradu
ate on time, and I have her in my
plans for the future," Woolridge
said.
Virginia Newton I* a sophomore news
editorial major, a Daily Nebraskan
staff reporter and a Diversions con
tributor.
Kente more than simple piece of cloth,
contains symbols of tradition, history
Editor's note: This article is a reprint on
behalf of its author. Last week’s Diver
sions unknowingly printed the non-re
vised version of this article. The Daily
Nebraskan regrets this error.
Contrary to what you may have
surmised, the brightly colored and
intricately patterned piece of cloth
worn by some African Americans
does not represent a fashion state
ment nor an attempt to color-coor
dinate their outfits.
What you are observing is the
wearing of the kente cloth, a sym
bol of tne pride, history and tradi
tion of the Ashanti people of Ghana.
Early in the 1700s, the Golden
Stool on which the Ashanti kingsils
was introduced into the Ashanti
culture as a symbol of unity within
the Ashanti empire. For this cer
emony an Ashanti weaver wove a
special cloth to be worn by the
king. The name of the cloth for this
unifying ceremony was kente.
Kente means lhat which will not
tear apart under any conditions.
The first kente cloth was woven
from cotton in keeping with cul
tural tradition. The color yellow
was used to represent gold, which
could only be worn by royalty.
Shortly afterihe introduction of this
first cotton kente cloth, an Ashanti
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