FAU’s chapter of SISTUHS, Incorporated  played matchmaker Monday, Oct. 1. SISTUHS, Incorporated stands for strength, initiative, spirituality, tenacity, unity, health and substance. Twenty years after the inception of the original chapter at FSU in December 1992, FAU established its own chapter this March. SISTUHS, Incorporated then spent the summer planning the dating show.

“We are a community service organization,” FAU chapter President of SISTUHS, Incorporated Rebecca Desir, a senior exercise science and health promotion major, said.

The dating show only cost $50 to put on, according to Desir.

“We promoted on social media, especially Twitter and Facebook. That’s where most of our peers are at,” Desir said.

SISTUHS, Incorporated chose contestants, “that were interested, and we knew they would be honest about the questions,” according to Desir.

The contestants had no prior knowledge of each other, and exposed themselves through a series of questions. It was a very dynamic group of contestants that were preselected by SISTHUHS, Incorporated.

During the dating show, they were asked a wide range of questions from the hosts Jessica Silverio and Julian Hanlan — both FAU students — from when was your last relationship, to what do you look for in a person.

The show was set up with one person blindfolded and made to select one of three contestants on stage based on their answers. The crowd of about 70 students had more women than men, and was fully engaged, sometimes shouting out which contestant should win.

The winner received a $25 gift card to take the person on a real date.

“I like it. They didn’t ask enough questions,” Sharae Sturgies, a junior nursing major, said. “I didn’t know who I would choose. They didn’t ask the questions I would’ve asked.”

“If I feel there is a connection with the person and be myself,” Sturgies answered when asked how do you measure a successful date.

“It was well put together,” Jerome Clark, a junior architecture major, said.

“I think it … well I think by the smoothness of the show and reaction of the crowd [it] was a success,” Rebecca Desir said.

The original version of this story had misspellings of SISTUHS, Incorporated and the wrong founding date. Those errors have since been corrected.