By Ariana Chengges ’17 | Pulse News Editor

The class of 2019 is doing a fundraising activity called Matchmaker to meticulously match students together, freshmen faculty adviser Marianne Modlin said.

Traditionally, the senior classes used to hold this student matching fundraiser, Modlin said. But between the class of 2012, whom which were seniors, and the freshmen class of 2019, this grade change has not caused any commotion.

“No one took interest in this task, so I thought since I have done it with my 2012 kids before that it would be great to see my freshmen class perspective for it,” Modlin said.

There are a few different kinds of questionnaires that the company Matchmaker uses for the students in the school get to know each other more, President of the freshmen class Amy Ellis said.

For instance, there are 11 pre-printed surveys in which the company has to send into the schools that offer this fundraiser: funky, hot, sizzling, tropical, cool, warm, wacky, phat, sweet, epic, sexual preference and university-only, Ellis said. The 2019 class chose the funky survey.

“This activity for the 2019 class raises money without doing any harm and is also great to get to know more people in the school,” Bridget Estes ‘19 said.

To fill out this survey, students mark off the specific topics that apply to them on the back side and it is then sent into the company where they run it through their software,” Modlin said.

The company has a print out that comes out and the students can purchase it for a small fee, Ellis said.

“There were a lot more people than I anticipated that filled out the questionnaire, but the only problem is to get your results back. The small fee is about a dollar or two,” Ellis said. “I am hoping people will pay though, so that it will give back to our class and school.”

“We hope to have the results returned to us a few days before the mid-winter break so that the students can have it near Valentine’s Day to see their match,” Ellis said.

One year the results were not looking like they were going to come back in time, but the council sent the surveys out early so that they did not encounter the same problem, Modlin said.

Since the results come out right before Valentine’s Day, which falls two weeks before Sadies, it might encourage people to go, Ellis said.

“We are planning to sell heart-shaped sugar cookies the week before Valentine’s Day, kind of like what the class of 2018 did with candy canes at Christmas,” Ellis said. “I also filled out a fundraising request to sell nonslip socks along with the Sadies tickets where people can pick up at coat and shoe check so no one has to go barefoot.”