Beware of the Ides of.... February? by Jordyn White
Year after year, we celebrate the same vicious cycle of twenty-or-so holidays. We've already celebrated two (or three if you count the Super Bowl, which I do not), and the third is ever-encroaching. This holiday marks the most heinous and corporate of them all--Valentine's Day. I know, what kind of cynic puts down the holiday of love? Me. That's who. Besides from the usual I'm-single-and-the-holiday-has-no-meaning-to-me, I have valid reasoning to hate this holiday with all my being. And by that, I do honestly mean that I hate Valentine's Day more than a lot of other things--I'm a rather resentful person. For one, Valentine's Day has a dark past. Although the exact origin of the holiday remains unknown, historians believe it came from ancient Rome. Look at that, all roads do lead back to Rome. The ancient Romans celebrated "The Feast Of Lupercalia," w...