Word: datamatching
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...phenomena--data match and Condom Week--reveals a slightly more complex picture. Whereas a cursory analysis of this week's Valentine's-Day-inspired activities would indicate carefree kids gone wild about sex and dating (and maybe if they're lucky, both), the underlying motivation behind Condom Week and Datamatch is significantly more conservative...
However, once again, a second look at the sources of data matching's popularity complicates our simple analysis. Datamatch can only be successful if people feel that romance is not very likely to occur on its own; in other words, the appeal of Datamatch is born of a deep disillusionment with any natural prospects for a social life. In a peculiarly 90's twist, the technical precision of the computer fills the role that spontaneity--or a good-hearted matchmaker--played in the more personal days of yesteryear...
...computer society also runs the Valentine's Day Datamatch program, in which students fill out surveys and receive a list of members of the same or opposite sex who most closely match their answer choices...
...council, bussing efforts during the holiday vacations and for the Yale game proved to be helpful services for students. The charitable holiday food drive was an example of precisely where the council can be most effective--in the coordination of student effort for good causes. The Valentine's Day Datamatch survey was able to add something to an otherwise dull campus humor life, albeit in an indirect manner. We must, however, note one remarkable faliure which could have and should have been avoided, namely the pathetic direct-dial Washington phone bank. Perhaps all activities can't be winners...
Last year, a company outside of Harvard worked out the technicalities of the Datamatch, but when HCS offered its services for this year, the Council accepted...