"Harvard MBA seeks merger with warm, attractive sincere woman with firm assets," pitches one Business School student. An undergraduate challenges readers, "Business School students are narrow-minded, conservative and boring. Law School students are humorless and boring. Medical School students are just boring. Prove this senior woman wrong."

These Harvard students, frustrated by unrequited love or just "looking for a good time." are among many appealing for dates in ClassMates, a personal advertisement flyer circulating at several Boston area colleges.

Two Harvard undergraduates have joined a nationwide trend towards matchmaking through news ink, by introducing a publication, which promises safe dating to college students. ClassMates offers students, too scared to test the regular personal columns, a chance to indulge their impulses in a relatively secure environment.

Filling A Social Gap

ClassMates is the brainchild of Robin Alper '87 and Betsy Kramer '87. The two Quincy House residents are banking on their belief that such a venture will fill an existing gap in the social lives of local students.

"I spoke with lots of people who were dissatisfied with college social life," Alper says. "Boston is a college mecca and there's really no way to meet undergraduate and graduate students from other schools."

Alper says she believes ClassMates, which aims exclusively at college students, is the only publication of its kind. The flyer has a circulation of 10,000, features an average of 70 ads per issue and is printed three times during the school year.

"It's about time Boston had such a great alternative to 'the party scene, bar scene, frat scene, library scene, laundry scene," says a Harvard senior, who began her ad with "I'm not in love, but I could be persuaded."

Both Alper and Kramer have stressed creative, but clean advertisements, which cost 30 cents a word. "It's cheap, you can meet someone for only five dollars, "says Alper.

The following are selections from the four ClassMates issues:

*"Aspiring suburban housewife seeks aspiring young urban professional. I will iron your oxfords if you take me out for sushi."

*"Art damaged Harvard architecture student who drinks heavily for lack of soul mate seeks beautiful, thin, well-textured woman with emotional problems and desire for affectionate sex that leads absolutely nowhere."

*"Generic personal: We are two guys looking for two girls for some generic good times. No brand names, please."

*"I am so bored with books! Anti-intellectual; 20-year-old female seeks same for superficial conversation and lots of fun. I'm overdue to be checked out of the library."

ClassMates targets students who have thought before about running personals in other Phoenix and New York magazine, but were wary of the respondents they would attract.