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Features It's written in the stars
By staff writer Astrology involves the art of interpreting a star’s position at the moment of a person’s birth. Mercyhurst College students were asked if their personalities reflected characteristics of their sun signs. Their replies were mixed. Junior Paul Schwanke is an English major and an aspiring writer. He was born under the Cancer sign, which is known for sensitivity. "I’m fairly sensitive, and I like to help people out," Schwanke said. "But when the newspaper tells me some of this stuff is going to happen, I’m still waiting." Schwanke admitted he has also been known to avoid situations, a Cancer characteristic. "Usually I sidestep to keep conflict out and to keep all ends even," he said. On the other hand, sophomore Alanna Esack doesn’t sidestep, but instead finds herself mysteriously drawn in to the middle of conflict. As a Libra, she sees herself as an mediator. "I don’t know how I wind up in the middle of things that have nothing to do with me," Esack said. However, regarding forecasted predictions in her daily Libra overview, Esack disagreed. "It is irrelevant to my existence," she said. "It talks about business and real-estate and being a high powerful executive, but I’m a bummy art major." Esack has been described as an "intellectual existential," by Dr. Kenneth Schiff, professor of English. Similarly, freshman Molly Moore sees herself balancing the scales as a Libra. "I’m always that person," she said. "Even if it doesn’t involve me, I somehow get involved. It’s really hard when people try to get me to take sides." Like Moore, junior Megan O’Hare encompasses characteristics of her sign. She is reserved and organized, which are characteristics of Virgo. "I just don’t understand why everything can’t be in its place," she said. "I find random things in random places and ask myself how it got there." O’Hare is also a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. "I don’t think everything is set for you, but I think you definitely have choices that will impact what will happen," O’Hare said. Senior Nichole Zuloaga also believes that there are reasons behind what happens to people. She said that the concepts of fate and faith are subjective. "In my opinion, given my belief that everything happens for a reason, faith and fate do not go against each other but are harmonious," Zuloaga said. On the other hand, sophomore Nicole Kochmanski disagrees with the concept of fate. "I think about fate sometimes, but when I do it’s only because friends use it to explain things," she said. "I’m not saying that people who believe in fate don’t believe in God, but when things are shaky in their faith they feel as though God is out in the distance and that is where fate comes in." Sophomore Hillary Tietsworth compared fate to a screenplay. "Fate is sort of predetermined," she said. "Imagine a screenplay. You hand it to people to fix it. Basically the main plot is written, but you can always improve." Whether there are moons in Neptune or stars in Venus, one thing may be certain: The behavior of human beings cannot ever be too perfect.
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