By Erica L. Schultz

Tuesday evening a curious group gathered in the Plaza Room to learn how to avoid dating a loser.

“The key to dating is to watch how he treats other people.” Dr. Gary S. Aumiller said to a small group of fewer than 100 people who attended the event.

Aumiller, a graduate of the University and a psychologist who worked as a profiler for the police, took the skills he learned on the job and made a career turn to helping women profile dateable men.

The audience was warned to watch out for certain behaviors in the initial stage of dating. Aumiller said to watch how he treats the waitress, his mother and his sister because this is how you can expect him to treat you later in the relationship.

“Learn from your past,” Aumiller said. When we are young we fall in love too quickly. Aumiller reminded the audience to remember that the beginning stages of a relationship are mostly fantasy and are rarely reality.

Aumiller said to watch out for extremes in the personality. He also talked about the importance of someone’s dating history.

Aumiller’s recent book profiles 25 types of guys to watch out for. The “sex guzzler” and the “the criticizer” are two types he has told women to avoid.

Before writing his book, Aumiller went on 30 dates in 44 days. He followed three rules on every date. First, he took every girl to dinner and paid for their meal. Second, he talked for at least an hour and a half on the phone with each girl before taking them to dinner. Third, he asked each girl if there were any red flags that went up while with him.

Anthony Keller, an 18-year-old undeclared freshman who attended the event, felt that, “The psychologist was interesting and I bet more people would have come if the event was better planned.”

Despite the confusion over the event’s location, the audience who did make it, laughed often at the profiler’s jokes. A traditional Italian dinner was offered free of charge to all audience members.