Many mates wail; computers can fail
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Computers, everywhere: Watch it, will you?
Maybe you know what you're doing. But for goodness sakes be careful. Romantically, you've got a heavy responsibility.
"Programmed dating has taken the U.S. by storm! Computer-matching services operate in every part of the country," said the questionnaire of an outfit that held a cocktail party here for its recent computer selectees.
NATURAL SELECTION by humans has been a going institution since long before Darwin, and if the machine is going to replace it, it'll have to stop trying to match a Brooklyn bachelor, 5-feet-5, with a lady three inches taller who, when the machine wants her to list her other characteristics, replies: "Like what, for instance?"
Or a college boy with a lady psychologist and guidance counselor who got out of college some years ago. Or does the computer have something there?
The party was held at the Golden 20's a discounthee "Bacon Let. Tom. Sand. F.F. $1.00." Right off, it was so jammed that it was virtually impossible to move, much less find a date by using slips of paper from the computer.
THE DATA-DATE service that pulled this stunt requires you to fill out a form about yourself, answering queries running from what's your opinion of sex before marriage, to which of the following characters you'd enjoy bringing to life to be with:
James Bond, Circe, Dr. Kildare, Jack the Ripper, Sidney Carlton, Helen of Troy, Sir Lancelot, Batman.
You pay $5 and you get back slips on at least five people, sometimes many more, with their brief biographies, phone numbers, characteristics and sometimes photos.
SINCE THE slips were only
given out after the people arrived,very few found any of the recommended matches.
"She's five-feet-eight," said the Brooklyn machelor, a U.S. customs employee, eyeing a slip. "That's out of my height range. They think maybe I'm a Mickey Rooney."
"Oh, come on," he was told "little guys like jockeys go out with normal size girls."
"Yeah, big blonde showgirls," he said. "And look at this other one. Under 'other characteristics' she puts down, 'large brown eyes and very pretty face.' That makes me nervous. I had a blind date once with a girl who told me on the phone she was quite attractive and when I met her she was repulsive."
THE COLLEGE boy, 19 and already a senior, took a superior view of the proceedings. "I am just so appalled. The head of the English department said I should subscribe and then come here and write an article for a magazine." The picture of one of his ladies showed her in slacks and taking a drink out of some kind of a bottle.
One couple found each other and immediately discovered the machine doesn't give a hang
BAGGAGE STEALER CAUGHT
- DALLAS—(UPI) — A man casually walked up to the baggage counter at Love Field in Dallas Thursday and picked up two suitcases and strolled to his pickup truck with them. He kept repeating the chore until police stopped him.
They found out he had 12 pieces of baggage, and he had not flown anywhere. The 33-year-old man confessed to stealing luggage from the airport for the past four months and selling the stolen goods.
The baggage claim area works on the honor system.
about height disparity. They were Joel Wolf, a 6-foot-2 textile salesman, and Judy Friedman, an IBM operator, just 5 feet.
HIS INTEREST was "hunting," hers "folk music."
Was Joel going to take her hunting?
"Pretty please," said Judy.
"No comment," said Joel.
"Oh, you," said Judy, and she swatted him playfully across the adam's apple with her envelope of male-match slips.
Both looked happily computed.
Official Bulletin
Foreign Students: Check calendar in Oct. issue of International Campus Newsletter for special events planned for you.
TODAY
Le Cercle Francais se reunira mercredi 12 octobre a 4 h.30 dans la salle big 8 de l'Union. Programme : "L'in-
vention 1866", compelle-du par les membres.
Danforth Devotions, 4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Lutheran at Danforth
Alpha Chi Sigma Pledge Banquet,
6:30 p.m. Curry Room, Union.
*Carillon Recital.* 7 p.m. Albert Gecken.
Classical Film, 7 p.m. "The Young & The Damned" Dyche Aud.
Newman Club Meeting, 7 p.m. St.
Lawrence Center, 1915 Stratford Rd.
Question: "Sex is Never Wrong"
Mike McConkey, S.J., moderator.
Everyone welcome.
University Theatre, 8:20 p.m. "Stop the World—I Want to Get Off."
TOMORROW
Savings & Loan Institute, All Day,
Kansas, Union.
*Student Chapter AIA Lecture, 3*
*pune, Maharashtra, Japanese architect.*
*D歌声 Auditorium.*
Mathematics Lecture. 3:30 p.m.
Prof. Mattfred Breuer, KU. 103 Strong.
Union, Chancellor Wescoe will speak
at Kansas University 7 p.m.
Kansas Union, Room 305 B.
KU SDS, 7:30 p.m. 841 Maine.
Experimental Theatre 8.20 p.m.
"She Stoops to Conquer."
College Life. 5 p.m. Phi Kappa Psi
Society of Christian Volunteers for
Peace, Karl Dennison speaking.
Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 12, 1966
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Physicians issue smoking report
There has been much said and written lately about the dangers of cigarette smoking. College newspapers were forced to discontinue all cigarette ads, which meant death to many papers. KU disallowed the selling of cigarettes on campus, and removed all vending machines selling cigarettes from the Union, the dorms and campus buildings.
It is known that heavy cigarette smokers have up to 30 times the death rate from lung cancer as do non-smokers.
THE PROBLEM DOCTORS and educators are presently concerned about is the adolescent. The Royal College of Physicians of London published a study called "Smoking and Health." In this study they report, "most smokers adopt the habit during adolescence." They said that generally 11 to 15 per cent of the boys "are already smoking small numbers of cigarettes by the age of ten."
The study determined that by the age of 19 adult habits were established.
Girls, according to the report,
smoke less often, but 15 per cent
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were smoking by the age of 15; and by the age of 20, about 40 per cent of the girls smoked regularly.
It is estimated that within five years, every state in the Union will have a program in the elementary school concerning cigarette smoking.
ACCORDING TO LONDON physicians, during adult life, nearly 75 per cent of the men and 50 per cent of the women are regular smokers. Women average 11 cigarettes a day, while the men consume 19 daily.
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