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...therefore, seems to be a hypocrisy coined to the outward benefit of both students and administration. Its only apparent purpose is to cast an aura of heightened political correctness over the campus. Is that warm, fuzzy feeling of egalitarianism the only thing to be gained by any sort of randomization? Most students would not dispute that the diversity afforded to them by their fairly random first-year accommodations is a fantastic opportunity for exposure to varied social and religious points of view...
...look at the claim that enhanced choice would maintain diversity. If diversity managed to be maintained by this system, it would be by random luck because there are so many ways that houses could be homogeneous. First, all student selected into any highly requested house will have put it as one of their four choices...
...This was not a random shooting," Deputy Superintendent Michael Giacoppo of the Cambridge Police Department told The Globe. "It very well could be a gang-type shooting. It certainly fits that scenario...
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Social patterns of conversation such as those used by Archie permit the random groupings of distinct populations to occur. With today's emphasis on ethnic pride, we should not tolerate such all-encompassing terms which tend to lump disparate groups together...