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Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 is expected to announce today changes to the controversial housing lottery "experiment" planned for this year.
"I am a little disturbed by the way this modest experiment has now become a way of talking about total random assignments. I would be infuriated if I was told that I had to go random," said Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49.
Two days later, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and the house masters indicated that they would not pay attention to the petition, and would go ahead with the lottery proposal this year as "an experiment."
Re-extending the shopping period to two weeks would also eliminate much of the confusion faculty and students were forced to undergo during the last few weeks. The abbreviation was intended as an experiment, and it is already clear that it has failed to solve the faculty's problems while...
In many ways this new freedom has been a marvelous experiment, without parallel in history. But part has gone to an excess.