Page 8 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1981
‘Electronic cupid’ helps singles select suitable dates
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Single peo
ple combing the big city crowds
for a desirable date often discover
they are difficult to find.
Trolling the bars for attractive,
interesting men and women to go
out with is expensive, time con
suming and usually futile, said Jay
Ullman, who has built a business
of getting people together.
Ullman, 32, created Great Ex
pectations, an aptly named
method of finding a date, which he
insists is not a dating service or
computerized matchmaking. It is
video dating that makes the old
“blind” date obsolete.
Its creator likes to refer to the
selection process as an “electronic
cupid.” He got the idea, he said,
from his frustrated friends.
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI — Federal
and state officials say they are in
vestigating whether a highly
flammable pesticide could have
sparked the April 7 explosion in a
grain elevator which killed eight
workers.
David Ivie, Texas Department
of Agriculture science division
chief, said Monday that investiga
tors are looking at fumigation re
cords from the Corpus Christi
Public Grain Elevator, specifically
checking the use of a fumigant cal
led phosphine.
“Grain dust is probably more
explosive than anything else, but
we asked the people doing the in
vestigation to check into all possi
bilities,” Ivie said. “It could have
been enough to create a spark to
get the grain dust going.”
Robert Kunkel, Federal Grain
Inspection Service spokesman in
Dallas, said federal inspectors had
complained about excessive phos
phine fumes several months be
fore the explosions.
Investigators have said they be
lieve the explosions originated in a
conveyor belt system or in the ele
vator legs.
However, officials said they
have not determined what served
as a spark for the explosions.
Meanwhile, the eighth victim
Jose Franco, 42, died from exten
sive burns late Sunday at Memo
rial Medical Center in Corpus
Christi.
At least 11 other persons re
main hospitalized from injuries
suffered in the explosion.
Reporter
to plead 5th
at hearing
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PHOENIX, Ariz. — A federal
judge has been asked to send a
reporter for The Arizona Republic
to jail for refusing to divulge his
sources for a story.
James Powers, lawyer for mil
lionaire Kemper Marley, filed a
motion asking for reporter Jerry
Seper to be found in contempt of
court.
U.S. District Court Judge Carl
Muecke scheduled a May 11 hear
ing on the motion.
Powers wants Seper to reveal
his sources for two 1978 stories
about an Internal Revenue Ser
vice investigation into Marley’s li
quor business. Marley was cleared
of any wrongdoing.
Marley filed suit against the IRS
in December 1978, claiming that
one of its agents released con
fidential tax information to Seper.
The suit originally named Gary
Card as the agent, but he subse
quently was dismissed as a defen
dant and replaced by a “John
Doe.”
In a series of opinions last year,
Muecke ordered Seper to name
his sources, saying Powers had no
other way of identifying them.
Powers took a deposition from
Seper March 2, but Seper refused
to identify his sources, citing the
Fifth Amendment protection
against self-incrimination, Arizo
na’s “shield law,” which protects a
newsman’s sources and the First
Amendment guarantee of a free
press.
Powers claims Muecke already
has ruled against Seper’s claims to
protection under the First
Amendment and the shield law.
He said Seper raised the Fifth
Amendment right as an “after
thought.”
“We are programmed to look
for 10s,” Ullman said of singles in
America. “My friends were not
losers, they were busy, active peo
ple — professionals who were
tired of looking in all the wrong
places for the right person.”
At Great Expectations, he said,
“you see more singles in an hour
than you could meet in a year.”
There, clients find their own
dates in a system that one young
woman said was “like going into a
candy store.”
It’s spreading, Ullman said.
Franchised branches have opened
under other names in San Jose,
San Diego, and Denver.
Single men and women pay
nearly $400 to join Great Expec
tations, and annual $200 renewal
fees to entitle them to continue
making date selections. The fee
offers members the chance to
peruse photo albums containing
snapshots and personal informa
tion on a first-name-only basis ab
out all other members of the oppo
site sex.
When they find someone in
teresting, they enter a private
booth in the firm’s offices and
watch a videotape of their pros
pective date being interviewed by
Ullman.
Members meet only by mutual
consent.
Clients are delighted by the
novelty of being able to choose
someone out of a book, watch
them on a TV screen, and then
have a neutral party find out if
they want to date them, without
being rejected face-to-face.
The process eliminates married
people, homosexuals and “the
emotionally walking wounded,”
Ullman said. Clients are usually
secure people with high personal
esteem who delight in new experi
ences, he said.
Ullman developed the concept
in 1975 after observing that many
singles had problems finding good
dates.
He says 74 percent of the
women and 93 percent of the men
are professionals such as doctors,
attorneys and engineers. There
are more men -— 52 percent —
than women in the club.
Robert Brotnow, 42, said he
was an architect whose dating
used to be hit and miss — “women
I met in restaurants, or through
friends.” He joined Great Expec
tations six months ago.
“I never had a bad time,” he
said of the more than 30 women he
dated in the first four months. “All
of them were at least a ‘six’.” He
said he spent $1,200 for all of the
dates and “it was worth it.”
Brotnow was dating several
Great Expectations women — a
real estate agent, a court reporter
and a clinical psychologist, he
said.
“They are sexy, feminine,
warm, affectionate and well edu
cated,” Brotnow said. He had
been married at a young age and
also had some long- term relation
ships. Now he was enjoying the
dating circuit again.
“You don’t necessarily go to bed
with a person on the first date.
Actually, there is not a whole lot of
sex (in his Great Expectation en
counters). I am very serious about
dating. I paid my money and I
really want my money’s worth.”
Phyllis Gordon, 36, a sales rep
resentative, said she met the man
she is now living with at Great
Expectations.
“It sure beats hanging around
bars and discos,” she said.
“I didn’t think I needed some
thing like (Great Expectations),
but looking at the tapes was like a
kid going to a candy shop.
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