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...best, the College's decision last week to turn random part of the freshman housing lottery deserves praise of the same cautious and half-hearted caliber as the spirit in which it was implemented...
...worst, the move by eight of the 12 houses to reserve one-quarter of their available space for random assignment draws charges of inconsistency--even a shade of hypocrisy--against the new system...
...random requirement does not single out athletes, artists or any other students as earlier proposals of quotas did. Limiting the random factor to 25 percent kept the restriction on student choice at a minimum, since 15 to 20 percent of freshmen face random assignment even in the current choice-based system...
Professor of Anthropology Irven DeVore said yesterday, "On reflection what I meant was, random lotteries are a civilized solution to a barbaric problem." DeVore applied his comments to Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology"--known popularly as "Sex"--which yesterday cut 75 students from 640 who had applied for sections...
LitGaz not only stood by the story but also took its case directly to a jury of sausage savants at the Fauna Cat Lovers Club in Dzerzhinsky, where the editors conducted a random taste test with some finicky felines. Last week, in an article titled "May the Cats Judge Us," the paper reported the results of its poll: out of 30 cats, only a two-month-old kitten named Mura would deign to dine on the suspect sausage. Asked the Gazeta: "All kitties, like Mura, must loyally love sausage. That's the way it's always been since man thought...