Jason Noble said in his Sept. 29 column, “Say goodbye to love, hello to social advancement,” we should do away with love, that life would be simpler without it. I would have to disagree with this 100 percent.

Did he research the “fact” that incoming freshmen have already cheated or been cheated on? For some of us, love is all we have.

May it be the love of an object, a song or a person, it is a form of love. The definition of love differs from person to person. Society has labeled everyone, no matter who they are, and that is what is wrong with society today. We must stop stereotyping.

Not everyone in college thinks the cool thing to do has to be the right thing. What makes parties the right place to meet women? What makes bars the right place to start a relationship? Whatever happened to getting to know someone first, finding their likes and dislikes?

Love is based on more than you think. Everyone develops their own ideology of love — I know I have. Spending a night alone with the person you care about is greater than being at a party or bar. I may be old-fashioned in buying flowers and treating a woman with all the respect I have, but I think the word you are knocking is sometimes the greatest word you can say to someone.

I personally think love is the greatest thing in the world. It’s the greatest thing we can experience as well as the only true thing many of us have to offer. No matter how much money one has, or the amount of items one can possess, love is something we know will always be there.

In order to define love, we have to first define ourselves. So to someone who would say life would be simpler without love, I say who is to say life would be simpler without it?

Andrew Cook

Junior

Mechanical Engineering