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...Heimert's critics claim his effort to preserve House personalities was a way to perpetuate Eliot House as the last bastion of old-style Harvard elitism...
...Heimert fires back at his opponents, trying to debunk the "obsession" with "Eliot House and preppies...
...Heimert further attacks preppy-bashers, saying they support a "compulsive anti-elitism which strikes me as acting from guilt." He groups them with supporters of random housing assignment and critics of selective concentrations like Social Studies and History and Literature...
...after all, Heimert says, today "preppies are not what they used...
...remember back when preppies were really preppies and clubbies were really clubbies," says Heimert. "You could tell by the way they talked with a lockjaw and they dressed different. Now everybody dresses the same. Everybody looks like they're going to Michigan State...