The writer of the following article has a personal interest in expansion of the number of college Italian charms. She would like to see certain 4 year colleges represented among the currently available college Italian charms. Some schools that sell a college mug do not make a charm available to their students. Some schools that encourage the purchase of a college sweatshirt do not push for the creation of their own college charm. The writer of the following article intends to urge the filling of that often overlooked “hole,” a hole in the treasury of charms with insignia from undergraduate institutions.

The first week of December in 2007, one could expect to see an increased demand for one of the college Italian charms. The events of that week gave students at the University of Miami a reason to examine the college charms. No doubt, some of them purchased a charm with the insignia for the University of Miami.

During that week sports fans had been saddened by a report about the murder of Sean Taylor. Taylor had been a student at Miami, before becoming a member of the Redskins. That tragedy seemed to demand a show of recognition from current Miami students. Perhaps some students thus chase go purchase college Italian charms.

A deeply moved student might even have chosen to buy two different Italian charms. A student could have purchased both a college charm and a charm suited for laser engraving. In that way, the charm wearer could display both the Miami insignia and the number “21,” the number worn by Sean Taylor.

No women play professional football, but there are female teams in basketball and soccer. From what colleges or universities did those women graduate? Are their schools represented among the college Italian charms shown to viewers at the various online charm “stores?”

Are there more men than women wearing Italian charms? If not, then why is it that no all-female institution is represented among the present college Italian charms? Why is there no charm with the insignia for Smith College, for Wellesley College or for Mount Holyoke College?

Perhaps charm makers feel that the women at such institutions would have no reason to consider the purchase of such charms. Perhaps charm makers have tended to view all of the women at such institutions as very dedicated students. Such charm makers might be quite surprised to discover all the ways that those female students occupy their time.

Those college-age girls do not spend all of their time studying. Many of them like to play bridge. Some of them set aside time for golf, or basketball. A few of them devote many hours to rowing or field hockey.

A walk on the campus of any of those three, all-female institutions would reveal the multiple interests of the young students. Some of them are active in politics. Some of them forgo a full eight hours of sleep, in order to take part in theatrical productions. Some of them see their name in the campus weakly, because they are on the paper’s staff.

The women at those all female-colleges do more than study. They may wear jeans to class, but that does not mean that they do not like jewelry. Among the students at those institutions, one could probably find a girl who has noticed the hole in the treasury of college Italian charms.