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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 8. 1966.

Both Sexes

Both Sexes

It's not only the boys who subscribe to the services of Operation Match. In fact, the girls are just as keen, it not more so. There is no doubt about it. "Computer Cupid" is sweeping America.

What a dag!

In two years of operation. Tarr's service has been called on to grapple with over 200,000 barren love lives, and by the ever-mounting number of cries for help throughout the continental United States, it has proved a distinct capacity for holding loneliness at bay.

How does Tarr go about "taking the blindness out of a blind date?" The questionaire he sends out requires 135 coded answers and includes queries on your sexual experience, ethics, height, belief in God. interest in tv. and of course what qualities you would like to see in your Match mate. There is even a special code to identify where you com? from, to make sure that the computer doesn't insist you drive from your varsity in Virginia to pick up your date In California.

The only competitor to Operation Match comes out with a somewhat more intellectual questionnaire. Called "Contact," this service admittedly caters to the sophisticated "Ivy League" varsities in the Northeast. Contact asks its clients, for example, to assess on a scale from one to five their "verbal fluence," "tempo of life," and capacity for "emotional expression.''

Only offering 100 boxes to fill in with the correct code (35 less than the Match form), the Contact questionnaire is proof that even the triumph of science can take itself with a grain of salt. Contact's computer happily processes reaction to this one: "The computer is invading too

many aspects of our personal lives."