This day in history: CMU's dating service
On this day in history, Friday Nov. 14, 1969, Central Michigan Life reported on a dating service soon to come to campus. The service, Digital Dan Cupid, cost $2 per person and featured scientifically generated multiple-choice questions based on the individual’s values and interests.
The questions were worded to draw out the person’s true personality. The way it worked was a student wishing to participate would pick up a questionnaire form in the Bovee University Center.
Men would be matched with six different names and "an additional name for those adventurous souls who want an unmatched challenge.” Women would receive the same number of matches. Everyone’s names would be entered into the service’s files for eight weeks, but if they wanted to contact any of their matches, they had to do it individually.
The questionnaire was a service of the Central Michigan University Dating-Matching Service, an organization headquartered in Merrill Hall, and formed of CMU students who were “spurred by the tremendous number of men and women roaming the campus alone,” to do something about it.
