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Saturday, February 11, 2012

OU student vies for date with pop star

Taylor Swift has had a big year. Countless awards, her first acting role in a movie, a boyfriend, and a date with an OU student?

For Jared Bowie, a sophomore Business Marketing student, a date with Taylor Swift may become a reality next month.

In December, Bowie created a Facebook group expressing his desire to take Taylor on a date while she’s in Oklahoma City for her concert tour.

He got the idea after he had a dream he was dating her.

“I had a dream that she was my girlfriend. It sounds creepy, but it’s not,” Bowie said. “Then I woke up, and she wasn’t. And I was so sad.”

After his dream, Jared walked down his dorm floor’s hallway and heard a hall mate playing a Taylor Swift song. Bowie says he couldn’t understand it, but he felt heartbroken.

Within a day, Bowie created a group called, “Taylor Swift Go On a Date With Me When You’re in OKC,” in the hopes that he’d get noticed and get a date with Taylor like he’d dreamed about.

People may call him crazy but as Jared puts it, he’s just a normal guy who wants a date with a beautiful girl.

And if this normal guy gets a date with the beautiful girl, he’s prepared.

“There are two options I’m thinking of,” Bowie said. “Either I’d take her to an exclusive country club I’m a part of here in Oklahoma, because I wouldn’t want her to get ransacked with people, or I hear she likes experimenting with food, so I would make her dinner at my house.”

Bowie says some of his hall mates are as passionate about his efforts as he is. They try to get together on Wednesdays or Thursdays and talk about different ways to publicize the Facebook group, Braeden Zamarron, Bowie’s hall mate said.

Zamarron, a psychology freshman, said, “At first I thought he was crazy, but then all these people were joining his group. Now I’m thinking this thing could actually happen.”

Devon Moseley, a religious studies sophomore, is Bowie’s RA. Bowie said Moseley is one of his biggest supporters.

“He’s just an average guy, trying to do something big that a lot of people tell him that he can’t do,” Moseley said.

According to Swift’s tour schedule on her MySpace, she has three days between her concert in Cincinnati and her concert at the Ford Center on March 11. Bowie says he hopes this means Swift will have a day to spare for a date before her concert.

In addition to the Facebook group, Bowie also campaigns for his cause on Twitter. He’s following Swift’s record company in the hopes that he’ll get noticed. But for his plan to work, Bowie says he needs people to join the group and continue inviting their friends.

The group has 5,464 members.

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