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...wrote. But, he added, “The survey was so far-out that I think anyone who managed to get through it would be someone worth knowing.” Xu’s comments echo a view that the HCS student leaders seem to have grasped fully: Datamatch is not exactly serious business. HCS President Steven M. Melendez ’07 indicated that those looking for real love through an algorithm may be barking up the wrong tree. He said that Datamatch is simply a “fun activity” that offers the bonus...
First there was the Harvard Computer Society’s Datamatch and its imitators, which purported to pair off Crimson soul- or bedmates through the magic of the Internet questionnaire...
...recent unveiling of Crimsoncupid.com and the relaunch of the Harvard Computer Society’s Datamatch are proof positive that Harvard students, far from passively bemoaning the College’s lackluster dating scene, are taking positive steps to remedy the situation. We applaud these newest additions to the constantly expanding realm of online interaction at Harvard and hope that Harvard students’ usage of the Internet will continue to make them increasingly sociable and outgoing...
...effort to help Harvard students find love on campus, the Undergraduate Council (UC) introduced the infamous Datamatch in 1995. They claimed their computerized dating service would “pair would-be lovers with their perfect mates.” UC representatives were so determined to help their dateless constituents that they even pitched in the money for a school dance to help bring the newly matched lovebirds together...
Currier’s own version of Datamatch, Lustfest Matchmaker 2003, had begun to solicit survey responses a week earlier, under the sponsorship of the Currier House Committee (HoCo). On the night of Valentine’s Day, when the results were distributed, there was no stopping Maas’s secret from both spreading and worsening by the minute, like mold on bad cheese. “People began comparing their results around dinner time and most girls realized their least compatible was Ben Maas,” Currier HoCo President Lacey R. Whitmire ’05 explains...