Because this isn't nearly as awkward as The Keg.
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Ah, youth. So fragile. So innocent. Who doesn’t recall the first stolen kiss, first time holding hands, first awkward date photos for the first high school dance? And then we arrived at Northwestern, and, apparently, all possibilities for a relationship dissolved. Of course, no challenge is too great for the Daily Northwestern. From recognizing and somewhat legitimizing the online-flirtation site Like a Little today (several months after the site was in vogue), to their plan to study two NU students on a date, find out the Daily’s strategy to score you a hook-up after the jump.
Yesterday, Buzzard was forwarded an e-mail from the Daily’s new entertainment section listserv that posed the question: “Tired of spending another lonely Friday night in the library?” While we haven’t spent a Friday night at the library since finals week, we read on anyway. The e-mail went on to describe the Daily’s latest investigative reporting project titled Organic Chemistry (the first warning sign), where two random students are paired on a date and report back on their experience afterward. Like the trashy TV show “Blind Date” sans the pesky cameras.
We give credit to the newly minted entertainment section for trying to generate a buzz on campus, but we hardly think eight randomly paired couples will finally “prove that Northwestern isn’t such a cold, dead place after all.” We won’t knock the students who sign up for the project—hey, it’s a free lunch, right?
