cornellWATCH

Here’s one scenario: 

Hobbling back from the library, a young college co-ed notices out of the corner of her eye a shiny new Lexus gleaming in the lamplight. She makes her way toward her apartment complex, arms full of books, and the car moves closer, revealing a dashing young blonde suitor with a fraternity-lettered sweathshirt on. As he passes, the studious young paramour catches his lusty eye, and he resolves to return once again to court his one true love.

The next week, he returns at the same time and asks her if she needs a ride; she demurely shakes her head no. He glides off into the night, hoping to chance upon her at a more socially opportune moment: perhaps when she is very drunk at a party.

A slight variation of the scenario follows after the break. This one replaces “shiny red Lexus” with “rusty old pick-up truck”; “fraternity lettered-sweatshirt” with “a black t-shirt with writing on it”; and ”dashing young blonde suitor” with “white male in his early 30s.”

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