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...plan is designed to increase the amount of random housing assignments. Under the current system students are assigned to one of their three choices as their number comes up in the lottery. If the houses they choose are full when their turn comes, they are randomly assigned to one of the houses that has space left. This happens to approximately 10 percent of the students...
...plan would have each house set aside 25 percent of their rooms for random assignment. Students would make three choices as they currently do, but houses would fill sooner. The students left would be assigned randomly to the rooms set aside by each house. This makes for a larger pool for each house to draw on, and thus a greater mix of students would be divided between the houses...
Unless the housing lottery goes entirely random, Harvard can never ensure full diversity. Unless all students get to pick their house assignment, they can never be ensured freedom of choice. Both goals are worthy; hopefully, this new plan will be a healthy compromise between them...
What does it all mean? Prascak defies his audience to find any meaning, which seems to be part of the point. Despite Prascak's claim that the principle behind his direction is "what the fuck," the play is far from random, but it avoids such conventions as plot and character development. This is confrontational theater, not for the faint of heart or the closed-minded. Though the show is little more than an hour long, few theatergoers would be willing to withstand more than a few minutes of it, even under alcoholic sedation...
...Borlange group's key proposal was that random checks for steroid use be carried out during training as well as actual competition. Refusal to submit to such checks would carry the same penalties as the discovery of use of any of the drugs, including disqualification and long-term bans from competition. Said Sir Arthur Gold, chairman of Britain's Olympic Association: "With controls during training, we have found a new and forceful weapon in the war against doping." If the weapon is used, that...