An old Delta rumor is reignited by two current students
By Blake Metiva
Apparently students on Delta’s main campus are feeling the love, with a group of students advocating for the creation of a “Kissing Room” on campus.
“Peers for Romance” is the group seeking the room. The Collegiate was able to get in contact with the student who created the group, Pauly Amoroos. Pauly is a second year student and he’s overheard complaints from other students about his PDA with his girlfriend Demice Ectschual. “I kept hearing that our kissing was making other students feel uncomfortable, so I felt like it was time to advocate for a space for kissing,” said Amoroos.
Roberto Rubio is a freshman and is completely unaware of the idea. “What’s a kissing room? Is it seriously a room for kissing? That’s all it’s for? Why are you guys covering this?” “Well Roberto, maybe you should be more involved in student life here, and you’d know what it is,” we asked. “Well, that’s pretty rude, who is your advisor?! I want to speak to them!” He replied.
It’s very clear that Roberto has no Rizz.
Luigi Linguine, an Irish foreign exchange student was all for the idea: “Yous what? A kissing room? At this point I’d grab me Mo Anam Cara (My soul mate), Shillelagh, and Blarney Stone and take them in there. Kiss Siobhan, kiss the shillelagh, and then the Blarney Stone. That there is a real kissing room.” He declared.
For what reason would they open it besides a “kissing room”? Pauly has those answers. “It doesn’t have to specifically be for kissing. It can be for studying, chilling out, calming down, or even relieving some stress. The main purpose is obviously kissing though.” When asked how much time students would need Pauly said: “At most 5 minutes. Blocks don’t need to be any longer than that.” A staff reporter asked the biggest question: how can you be sure that it will only be used for kissing? Pauly had this to say: “I can’t be sure that it will be, but for all the work our group put in, I’d hate for it to be ruined because some people used it for inappropriate purposes like that.”
Other iterations of a “kissing room” had been proposed, but never got out of the planning stage. In the early 60s, not long after the college opened students tried for a similarly named kissing room. In a search through the archives, nothing could be found about where or when the idea began.
Outside opinion would certainly be against the proposed room. It seems that it would likely be taken the wrong way as well. The idea of a specific room for “kissing” brings out fears that it wouldn’t be used for the correct purposes, the fear of public backlash is also something that is high on the minds of faculty at the college.
Leaders on campus are extremely against the idea of creating the room. An overheard conversation by an anonymous source had this quote: “What do these kids think this is? The sixties? We don’t have the space, time to monitor it, or any benefit to create it. God forbid any activities besides kissing take place.” Professors have refrained from commenting on the matter, and feel it’s a waste of time.
So what will it be? A room for students to blow off a bit of steam and relax with their significant other, or continuing with the status quo? The staff of the Collegiate are of the opinion that it’s nothing more than a rumor, but it seems to have caused some lengthy discussions during weekly meetings. “Are we seriously entertaining this story? Is it even news worthy?” Said one reporter. “It may not be newsworthy, but it’s certainly something that has the student body buzzing,” said another. “I think we should run it, how bad can it be?” came in from the back. “Are we sure this is even happening? Or is it an extremely niche reference to the Millenium edition of the Collegiate from almost 25 years ago?” Noted one keen Journalism Club member. “Well to be honest guys, I think our readers should go back and check the first letter of each paragraph. It might spell something out for them.”
