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In a culture where it’s now overwhelming to ask someone out in person, a Stanford graduate student has built a popular dating service with over 5,000 users, the Wall Street Journal reports. Date Drop launched in September, created by graduate student Henry Weng. To get matched, students answer 66 questions about their values, lifestyle and political views. Their answers
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Princeton, Yale and MIT. Date Drop raised $2.1 million in venture capital funding, according to the Wall Street get fed into Weng’s algorithm and each allowed at this point, but the service’s Journal. user gets a new match sent to them ev- website says it is working on ways to “It helps people take a chance on conery Tuesday at 9 p.m. let alums join. nection,” Weng told the Journal. “You Users have to have a Stanford email Date Drop has taken off at Stanford, get a reason to meet up with a specific address and must opt in to receiving which has an undergraduate population person, take some of that pressure off.” a new match each week, according to of about 7,500, and has spread to 10 Date Drop also has a social feature Date Drop’s website. No alumni are other campuses, including UC-Davis, [See DATING, page 18]
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MORE CLASSES — This rendering provided by the school, shows the expansion at Charles Armstrong School in Belmont.
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Belmont City Council has approved the expansion of a school for dyslexic students, despite neighbors’ concerns about traffic and safety. The plans for Charles Armstrong School, at 1405 Solana Drive, were unanimously approved by the council on Tuesday. The plans include the construction of nine classrooms, a science lab, a conference room, a gym and a kitchen. Neil Tuch, head of the school, said it’s not about expanding the space but about the education program that will increase. The expansion will help the school enroll 30 more students and hire the best teachers in the area, he said. Residents nearby oppose the proj[See SCHOOL, page 18]
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