Recently researchers have been looking into the minds and hearts of college students across the country to spot dating trends. Largely they have found that traditional dating is dead on campus. It has been replaced with “group dating,” in which men and women hang out together in unpaired packs. One student from the University of Northern Iowa explained, “Large groups are seen as low risk, making for a safer emotional environment…” (Levine & Jeanette, 1998). Traditional courtship has been declining for years. Samuel Lowrie noted the decline in 1951 in his work Dating theories and student responses. Thus, the move away from traditional dating is nothing new. Alterations in society o

Has dating changed over the past twenty years? When posed this question, 81% of the students surveyed in my study said yes, definitely. The most popular terms to describe dating were fun, overrated, non-existent, complicated, and interesting. In 1951, Waller described dating as “competitive” and “amusing” (Lowrie, 334).

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