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May 21, 2024
Several campus matchmaking apps have bloomed — and withered — in past years. From friendships to founders, read about them here.
By Oriana Riley
April 9, 2023
In this op-ed, Yu argues that Checkmate, the app made by the Stanford Marriage Pact, has the potential to evolve into a dystopian technology and raise privacy concerns with the data it uses. Yu writes, "We are curious about ourselves, and we are curious about technology, which is why products like Checkmate can be a shortcut satisfying our desire for self-knowledge. Our interaction with Checkmate shows that one day we may easily repeat scenes in past dystopian imaginations without even realizing it."
By Chunhua Yu
Sept. 28, 2022
Bain’s $10 billion portfolio of assets under management now includes some stake in Marriage Pact, though the terms of the agreement were framed in a way that does not yet determine a stock price. The Marriage Pact survey and matchmaking “will always be free,” according to co-founder Liam McGregor ’20, but he and his team are developing paid additions to existing services.
By Matthew Turk
March 6, 2024
The student a cappella group performed their annual anti-Valentine's Day show Saturday. The event highlighted the creative and collaborative spirit of the singers.
By Helen Katz
Feb. 13, 2023
Stanford's newest matchmaking algorithm takes a new approach — purposefully leaking the data of some individuals.
By Caroline Wei
April 7, 2022
Singles account for 61.4% of the population, and for the remaining 22.4%, “it’s complicated,” according to the updated report. “As it turns out, we accidentally swapped the labels on the ‘Relationship Status’ graph in the first edition of this year’s Campus Report,” according to a statement provided to The Daily from the Marriage Pact.
By Matthew Turk
April 29, 2022
Are college students ready to settle down? The answer to that question could depend on the responses to more than 500 potential questions. While layers of immense complexity underlie this matchmaking algorithm, it remains unknown how much the mystery of human connection can truly be predicted, allocated to best use or replaced by abstractions in a machine.
By Matthew Turk
April 14, 2022
The survey found that 16.2% of students are single, 61.4% of students are desperate for human contact of any kind and the remaining 22.4% are content with only eye contact.
Nov. 14, 2024
Alan Lightman, MIT professor and author, shares how we can bridge the gap between arts, spirituality and science.
By Dan Kubota
March 27, 2022
Singles account for 16.2% of the population, 61.4% are partnered and for the remaining 22.4%, “it’s complicated,” based on 2021 survey data. As for religious beliefs, agnostics are proportionally the largest group (30.2%), followed by atheists (16%) and Catholics (14%).
By Matthew Turk
Jan. 2, 2022
5,345 Stanford students once again participated in the Marriage Pact survey this fall, expressing various levels of agreement to statements like “I would keep a gun in the house” and “Gender roles exist for good reasons” in search of their match. Roughly 3 to 4% of respondents go on to date for a year or longer, according to co-founder Liam McGregor ’20.
By Matthew Turk
Dec. 4, 2022
Performed in the Neo-Futurist style, “Everything Must Go” puts on 30 original plays in exactly 60 minutes.
By Greta Reich
April 29, 2022
Our campus was built by earthquakes. But once the shaking stopped, Stanford evolved. Now, again, there is a lot of debris in our world. The stories in the issue ask the question: how will we evolve this time?
May 22, 2022
Avi Gupta ’23 and Liana Keesing ’23 receive Truman Scholarships to bridge their work and scholarship in technology and policy. They are two of 58 Truman Scholars in the United States.
Dec. 27, 2022
Stanford students may not be fluent in love, but they sure are fluent in C++.
By Carolyn Stein and Allison Argueta
Dec. 4, 2022
Stern dining, on the night of Nov. 10 at 9:08 pm, was heavily influenced by the constant drums and bass guitar notes wafting from the far corner. Beyond burrito bowl specials, the dining hall also has a music practice room, which is often inhabited by a band of Stanford juniors called Bitch Cup, writes Annie Reller.
Sept. 30, 2024
Whether you’re an engineer or a reporter or an editor or whatever else, no department exists on a discrete, isometric island here, Matthew Turk '24 writes as he reflects on his four years at The Daily.
By Matthew Turk
Dec. 2, 2021
The Stanford Divorce Pact matches you up with the least compatible person on campus, so you can skip right to the bitter fighting and resentment.
By Seamus Allen
May 2, 2022
Stanford Vietnamese Student Association’s Culture Night charms the audience with humorous skits and impressive lion-dance, writes Cameron Duran.
