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Cowley: Dating Apps Make it Harder to Find Real Connection

By Elle Cowley, Multimedia Managing Editor October 20, 2022

  On Sept. 12, 2022, the dating app Tinder turned 10 years old. I haven’t been active on dating apps for almost a year now, but I remember how it felt to use them. I remember scrolling for hours...

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Love in the Time of Corona

By Ivana Martinez and Natalie Colby April 15, 2020

  “Everything about our mechanism of love and connection is based on proximity,” said Lisa Diamond, University of Utah professor and researcher of developmental psychology and health psychology....

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Chavez: Consent Must Be Centered When Dating In The Workplace

By Paij Chavez, Opinion Writer November 20, 2019

It’s been a little over two years since Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was exposed to the world as one of the worst predators in the entertainment industry. Weinstein was fired from The Weinstein...

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‘Company’ Provides Delightfully Apt Lessons in Being Single

By Ray H., Arts Writer February 18, 2019

  The University of Utah Department of Theatre's production of "Company" is a playful, mature breath of fresh air. This slightly modernized version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical...

Barber: New Dating App “The League” Could Be Improved

By Shaelyn Barber April 25, 2018

Dating apps are both the bane of my existence and the only way I can get a date in this day and age. I am not ashamed to say I have done a fair amount of dabbling on Tinder and, like many people, I have...

Barber: Life in 1947: Marriage

Barber: Life in 1947: Marriage

By Shaelyn Barber April 2, 2018

Among old belt-buckles, wooden furniture, yard appliances and music records, I found gold at a yard sale- a copy of Life Magazine from Sept. 15, 1947. It’s brimming with history, a time capsule of what...

Parkin: Person or Profile, Finding Love in the Digital Age

Parkin: Person or Profile, Finding Love in the Digital Age

By Natalie Parkin October 14, 2017

Ah, dating. The cause of most every boy and girl’s hormonal stress. I think we all can agree that the “dating game” is as scary as it is fun. One’s personal confidence is tested when asking another...

5 Weirdest Pick Up Lines

5 Weirdest Pick Up Lines

February 19, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]In lieu of Valentine’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of the 5 weirdest pick up lines singles have used (on our very own staff!!) to score a date. 5. “I...

The only three pro-tips you need to survive an awkward first date

February 11, 2015

We’ve all had them, and we never want to have them again. Dates that seem to be going nowhere. You and your date have already talked about hobbies, education, families, etc., and nothing seems to click....

U student uses tumblr to mock Tinder participants

U student uses tumblr to mock Tinder participants

By Katherine Ellis February 11, 2015

    Tinder revolutionized the online dating scene as we knew it. Praised for its ease and simplicity and criticized for superficiality and vanity, Tinder launched itself into the interwebs...