Will Chapman, publisher

It appears it won’t be on the market for Valentine’s Day this Saturday, but next year you may be able to get your sweetie some LSU Tigers perfume or cologne.

Masik Collegiate Fragrances are already being marketed for the University of North Carolina and Penn State, and deals are in place with fragrances expected soon for other universities including LSU, according to the company’s Web site.

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Soon, it appears, you’ll be able to not only show your school’s colors but wear its scent, though I’m not sure exactly what it will smell like.

We’ve all heard about LSU and the Eye of the Tiger and all that, but do you want to smell like a tiger?

Then again, I bet a tiger’s fragrance is better than an Armadillo, like at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, or Bisons and Buffalos that are found at a number of schools, or the Dirtbags from California State University at Long Beach, or the Mastodons from Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne.

Penn State’s perfume reportedly smells of vanilla, lilac, rose and white patchouli, while the cologne smells like blue cypress and cracked pepper.

I read elsewhere on the Web that patchouli is an herb of the mint family.

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I’d clipped a news item a few weeks back that reported how an idea for a romantic marriage proposal turned into a nightmare.

The young man had a ring in his pocket and planned to pop the question to his beloved on Proposal Rock, on the ocean’s shore near Neskowin, Ore.

The couple was walking out onto the rock when a wave suddenly came in. The fellow turned his back to the wave, to keep from getting knocked over, but when he turned around, his 4-foot-11 girlfriend was being swept out to sea.

The fellow tore off his jacket and other clothing, preparing to dive in to rescue the girl, but when he looked up, she was gone.

That’s the kind of thing you’d expect in a movie or romance novel, but not from real life.

But then compare that tragic love story to one out of Mexico City, where lawmakers proposed a law that would stick runaway brides or grooms with the bills for cancelled weddings.

If approved, couples would sign a legal contract outlining how much a man or woman would recoup if he or she gets jilted along the way to the altar. The contracts would outline reimbursements at any point an engagement is called off.

How romantic — “Honey, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, but just in case you don’t show up I want you to sign this contract to make clear what you will owe me.”

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Saw an interesting idea implemented at Gonzales (Texas) High School where kids who arrive at school not meeting the school’s dress code will be expected to put on a pair of school provided one-piece blue coveralls, or get appropriate clothes brought from home or serve an in-school suspension.

The coveralls are the same as those often sold to county jails, mental institutions and juvenile prisons.

Will Chapman is publisher of The Daily Iberian.