‘Real World:’ Philly Style

themselves involved in your business and sometimes interfere with your relationship. I don’t see distance as a problem in my relationship because we are able to communicate on the phone and through the inter net. It is nice to have something to come home too,” Leeds said.

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It is a typical Tuesday night for most of the girls living on the Cabrini College campus. Walking into Susan Moraca’s dorm room in New Residence Hall, four girls gather around the television to watch the most anticipated shows of the week, “One Tree Hill” followed by “The Real World” and “Laguna Beach.” All of these shows have one theme in common, love. They all deal with relationships between men and women.

Most of the characters in these shows all involve themselves in romantic affairs. During each commercial break, the girls converse about the drama going on in the show, focusing mainly on who is dating who and how cute certain characters are together. They relate what is going on in the shows to their own personal lives.

One girl says, “I wish I could find a love like that here at Cabrini. It would be so cute. Another girl

Kim Feeny, a sophomore psychology and communication major does not think so. Kim met her boyfriend John Kolesnick, also a sophomore, during her freshman year on campus when they shared classes together. “Most students that say they can’t find love on this campus are probably looking too hard for that perfect person. Love is something that will find you, not something you go searching for,” Feeny said.

While there are a few couples at Cabrini, there are many people who have boyfriends or girlfriends offcampus.

Chris Leeds, a junior English major, has been dating his girlfriend off-campus for five months and believes he is better off dating someone who does not go to Cabrini.

“With Cabrini being such a small campus people tend to get

The majority of the Cabrini campus consists of single people. Why is that? Are they not going to the right places to mingle with the other singles?

Jay Radka, a sophomore English major, believes it is their choice to be single. “Most college students do not come to college looking for love. They come to have a good time,” Radka said.

Most people in college think the only way to meet people is by going to parties. Surprisingly, most students don’t realize that they probably have more in common with someone sitting next to them in one of their classes than they do with the person trying to flirt with them at the apartments on a Thursday night.

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During the shooting of “The Real World: Philadelphia” nearly 20 arrests were made as civilians tried to cause a ruckus on camera.

According to Philadelphia police, that many arrests isn’t bad. Some people did get the chance to make their big debut on national television, however, as they’re currently being aired as part of this season’s episodes.

In the second week, the cast was drinking near Old City and over 15 people demanded to be on MTV. A fight ensued and over 30 cop cars responded to the call to disperse the crowds. “They probably weren’ even home,” Mike Quinn, a 25year-old police off icer for Septa Transit in the city, said.

Security for the cast was extreme. Undercover cops for Philadelphia would be stationed at the bars. Quinn said that cases did not get too out of hand and that “only 15 or 16 people were arrested” that season. “It wasn’t that bad,” Quinn said.

Quinn doesn’t feel that “The Real World: Philadelphia” is por- traying the city in the right light. “It’s not that real to begin with. You’re not living your own life,” Quinn said. In Quinn’s opinion the show is misleading because cast members can’t even enter a cab without the lighting being checked before leaving the house.

The depiction of the city on the show may not be reality, but Quinn has the proof. He said that crowds would jeer the cast, but then in the same breath would be chanting “EA-G-L-E-S! Eagles!”

General security for transportation on the show was taken to the national government. Quinn said authorization was needed from Homeland Security to show buses and subways in motion. “This just shows how fake the show is,” Quinn said.

Early in the season police escor ted one of the cast members, Koroamo, out of a bar because someone thought that he was car rying a gun. MJ another cast member felt that this was an innocent mistake since each cast member walks around with a battery pack and microphone tucked into the back of their pants.

Shortly after that when MJ and fellow cast member Landon were out for a few drinks, a car driving by threw CD’s out the window at them. After reaching the bar, MJ had a bar stool thrown at him. “I don’t think that Philadelphia is portrayed in the right light,” Rachael, sophomore psychology and sociology major, said.

Every season of “The Real World” experiences this. People make a scene so that perhaps they can be in the spotlight of one of the episodes. This season, though, all the action is making it into the episodes.

So why is it that in other seasons this footage wasn’t aired until the follow up with all the cast members after the show finished? At that time cast members would shrug off the events simply saying that the people were most likely looking for attention.

Read DeSabato, English and communications major said, “I think that Philadelphia looks amazing as far as a the shots of the city I didn’t really like the episode though, where one of the guys had a chair thrown at him. But I guess that Philadelphia does have a reputation of being a rowdy city.”

Nonetheless, the behind-thescenes action typically does not faze faithful viewers of the show. Cabrini students are still tuning in to “The Real World: Philadelphia” each Tuesday night on MTV at 10 p.m.