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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argue that the current assignment system is problem-free is--not to put too fine a point on it--intellectually dishonest. Clearly, a house system that consistently produces clusters of groups in certain houses is not in everyone's best interest. Diversity among houses is not enough. The house system must maintain diversity within every house...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Diversity Comes First | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

...ordered choice" solution suffers from essentially the same defect. The object of housing reform is to get students who otherwise would not live in certain houses to live there, and to get the students who otherwise would live in those houses to live somewhere else. Non-ordered choice fails to do that...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Diversity Comes First | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

...That?: The 28 candidates running for City Council this year use up between them an awful lot of paper--and that fact has not escaped the notice of certain councillors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

Harvard currently has an "umbrella" policy on alcohol that attempts to respect students' right to privacy. No explicit rules exist for parties that stay private, but once a party exceeds a certain size or noise level, officials consider it "public" and may shut it down...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: A Crackdown on Drinking? | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

Gorbachev also said the Soviet Union has removed all tactical nuclear missiles that could strike the northern European region and will take certain types of sea-launched nuclear weapons out of the Baltic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorbachev Cuts Soviet Nuclear Forces | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

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