The CT hits the streets: Valentine’s Day

Q1: What does Valentine’s Day mean to you?
Q2: How will you celebrate Valentine’s Day?
Q3: What is your most fond Valentine’s Day memory?
Q4: What is your worst Valentine’s Day memory?
Q5: What would be the greatest Valentine’s Day gift VCU could give to its students?

Melanie Seals, 19
Sophomore English major
San Antonio, Texas

Q1: Valentine’s Day is a commercialized holiday that forces guys to make up for their stupid mistakes.
Q2: Go out to dinner, use the hot tub and get intimate.
Q3: In elementary school, my mom would take me shopping.
Q4: Dating a guy that didn’t give me anything for Valentine’s Day.
Q5: $500 vouchers to pay for books.

Houston Cook, 21
Junior business major
Groton, Conn.

Q1: A day where you’re supposed to give special attention to your significant other.
Q2: By giving flowers and teddy bears that say “I love you.”
Q3: Not applicable.
Q4: Someone broke up with me on Valentine’s Day.
Q5: Scholarships.

Prajani Bastakoti, 22
Senior business major
Arlington, Va.

Q1: A day where couples express their feelings about love.
Q2: Hang out, get dinner and have fun.
Q3: An ex-boyfriend got me tons of gifts.
Q4: There isn’t a worst Valentine’s Day memory, but last year I couldn’t see my boyfriend.
Q5: Some kind of game where you could win a dinner for two, gift certificate or (tickets) to the movies.

Elizabeth Castle, 19
Sophomore psychology major

Q1: Spending quality time with the one you love.
Q2: Go out to eat.
Q3: I have no idea, because I really didn’t have many.
Q4: Not having a boyfriend, I guess.
Q5: No final exams and make parking decals not cost too much.

Nick Duzant, 20
Junior business major
New York, N.Y.

Q1: Just a holiday. It really doesn’t mean anything to me
Q2: Just call my mom and make sure she feels real special.
Q3: Don’t have one.
Q4: I forgot Valentine’s Day one time, and my mom was my Valentine. She wasn’t feeling that too much.
Q5: A VCU singles dance, reduced parking and free chocolate.

Maria Venetsanos, 19
Sophomore English major
Fairfax, Va.

Q1: A day for people to act like they care.
Q2: Probably go out to dinner and just be with him.
Q3: When my ex-boyfriend rented a hotel room with a Jacuzzi. We had a bubble bath and dinner.
Q4: When a guy totally forgot about Valentine’s Day, and ever since then I’ve been against it.
Q5: No school for one day and more parking.