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...real question here is whether the College is more committed to freedom of choice or the promotion of diversity. Freshman already live in random distributions in the Yard to produce diversity. The current lottery system is designed to give students a measure of choice when it comes to where and with whom they want to live--one of the most important decisions undergraduates make in their four years here. Athletes may pick Kirkland for its location near the gyms; artists may go to Adams for its atmosphere. The College must not pursue its goal of diversity to the point where...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS by Paul Kennedy (Random House; $24.95). Bad news. A respected historian argues that all dominant nations are fated to founder, and now it may be the U.S.'s turn...
...Note--In houses other than Eliot, students receive a random lottery number and select their own room. The masters' assistants assign rooms to sophomores...
...style, now competing with running shoes as hot dress-down items in New York City and Washington, is spreading ever westward. When Herman Ruether, interim director of the Chicago-based Palestine Human Rights Campaign, heard that the kaffiyeh was becoming fashionable, he said, "I started talking to people at random." The results of Ruether's informal poll: only three out of ten people cited politics as their reason for wearing the scarf. He adds, however, that during the most & recent episodes of violence in Israeli-occupied areas, his office received a large number of calls from Americans sympathetic...
...currently live under a lottery system which is designed to give students a choice in where they will live for their years as upperclassmen. While not every student can live in the house of his choice and some unfortunates must be randomly assigned, approximately 80 percent end up living in their first choice house. In a student poll conducted by the Crimson several years ago, undergraduates approved of this system, and not one which placed students in houses at random...