Student takes informal route to find date for upcoming formal
By Emily turner
Staff Reporter

Don’t blame Stephanie Stegge if she shows up stag at Saturday’s Chi Omega/Zeta Tau Alpha formal. After all, she’s told everyone at TCU she needed a date.

Stegge, a sophomore early childhood education major, said she got so caught up in her school work she did not remember the approaching party until she noticed it written on her day planner. Ever since Stegge turned to cyberspace, the calls from prospective dates have been rolling in.

“I’m not a loser I swear,” said Stegge, a sophomore Zeta Tau Alpha member who posted her request on Thursday’s TCU Announce, “I’ve just been so busy, I forgot we had formal and now I’d like a date!”

The announcement calls for certain qualifications. Stegge said the lucky guy must send her references, be willing to have fun, photograph and dress well and cannot be a psychopath.

But she said she would not attend the party with a complete stranger.

“If I go with someone, I will have to have some sort of a connection with the person,” Stegge said.

Erin Wall, a junior psychology major and Stegge’s sorority sister, said she had no idea the function was just around the corner because it was so close to Thanksgiving.

“I thought it was hilarious,” Wall said. “She’s actually been joking about doing this for awhile. Even if she does not get a date from this, I am making her go no matter what.”

One e-mail respondent said he didn’t want to be Stegge’s date, she said, but commended her for her new approach

“I have to give you huge props for putting that ad up,” said Jeremy Burge, a senior business and finance major. “(She) just made reading the TCU Announcements worthwhile.”

Stegge said she did not expect the amount of responses she received.

e.l.turner@tcu.edu