Empowering College Women Strategies For Campus Relationships is a book that is meant to inform college-aged women on how to form lasting and meaningful relationships. However, it fell short with the lack of actual feminine input, and the sole information coming from author Rick Becker. Although Becker has spent many years observing college students when he ran a club, he cannot have learned everything written in this book solely from observing the people that frequented his club.

For a book that is supposed to be about empowering women, much of the focus is on men, and how to interact with them, and the qualities that they possess. To an extent that is necessary, however it was overly portrayed. The focus seems to be on the men that women interact with, rather than the women themselves.

Becker gives 100 ideas that are supposed to up the game of women, however many of them are repetitive in many aspects, and they are corny. Along with many of these ideas there are metaphors that are supposed to clarify what is being explained; however the metaphors become more perplexing than the initial explanation ever was.

Each time that he has a new idea he tells whether it is a strategy, opportunity, or technique. Within each idea there is also the tip of whether it is something good, or something that should be avoided, although most of the time the titles are self explanatory.

The poem Harmony, which is included in the book, is written on nine different pages, and it doesn’t change one bit. After the first three times of seeing it, it was apparent that Becker liked this poem; however it was used too much, and was less meaningful by the end of the book.

The book contains many good points, such as the need to get to know a person more than their outside appearance, and taking time to sit down and get to know a person. He points out that most people do not take the time to get to know a person through talking and learning what their dreams are, and what a prospective date may be like.

Included at the end of the book are a few exercises that are meant to help women get an idea of what things they should be looking for in a potential date, such as what kind of upbringing they had, where they lived, and what their education was like.

There is a guide to rate your prospect, which lists traits that most people have, and then a number system from one to five, rating how their personality represents them.The event journal would have a list of things such as; date, time, place, event, holiday and then you rate it great, good, or crummy.

It goes on to have you list and then go into detail things that were done and said on the date, recalling it with as much detail as possible. While these ideas are nice, in reality people are not going to take the time to go through this process and figure out which person meets their standards with a bunch of exercises at the end of a book.

Again, the exercises at the end of the book have the focus mainly on the men involved, which seems to say that women should focus more on the men than themselves. This seems to be countering the point the book is trying to make.