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...flawed premise, Lat criticizes the high schoolers for demonstrating "a woeful lack of knowledge," standing for platitudes, and arguing "a poor excuse for a case." Apparently, Lat has forgotten what it is like to be a nervous, inexperienced fourteen year-old from a random American high school, debating at the mythical Harvard University in front of mythical Harvard students. These debaters do not have the eight years of debating experience that Lat has; indeed the Harvard tournament brings many schools that only have the money for one or two tournaments a year, and thus, their students may not have...
Apparently, Jewett and others feel that if randomization is implemented, students will seek to circumvent it by transferring into other houses. To avoid this, they have suggested that students who wish to transfer should enter a lottery, in which they will be assigned--you guessed it--to a random house...
This provides a strong disincentive to transfer: not only is the student assigned to a random house that may be as bad as the one she left, but she will probably have to do it without friends. This draconian proposal illustrates that students' happiness has become entirely subservient to the goal of racial and social diversity...
...anticipation of this problem, the Committee on House and College Life (COHL) decided in January to limit block size to sixteen, down from twenty. House masters had advocated a limit of eight in November, "as a step towards making the composition of the houses more random...
...give the Simoleons away at random, you're rolling the dice. But if you give them to people who are secretly panarchists -- who have a vested interest in showing that E-money works -- it's a much safer...