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...Harvard of 1955 a much different indeed, much more diverse place from the Harvard of 1953 It would be insufficient to argue that, because critics misconstrue president Lowell's vision, the notion of a random lottery is non sensical. There are other compelling reasons to oppose changing the lottery system members of certain minority groups, for example, require a minimum number of intra group associations to ensure a comfortable Harvard experience Nearly every GISA and BSA leader will tell you that to randomly assign and spread gay and Black students across campus would disastrosuly affect their mutual support system. Also...
Students would no longer be stereotyped, Instead they would have the opportunity to live with and learn from all different types of people Contrary to the arguments made by those favoring the status quo random group assignment would foster rather than destroy house spirit. Students would work to create their house identity each year rather than conform to existing reputations. Harvard could use a shake up like this...
Much has been said in recent months and continues to be said today about be value of proposed random housing lottery. The primary objective of random as assignmment purposed to be an increased level of diversity of indent increase and abilities. But when president Lowell envisioned a diverse residential system during the dawning of the Age of House life his intentions were considerably more limited than those of today's critics Lowell chiefly sought to mix rich and poor, to eliminate the townhouse tenement disparity. He did not search for an Idaho resident to put in each House merely...
...reasoning behind college admission preference for a random housing lottery is noteworthy. It would appear as if the administrative viewpoint springs not from any social vision based upon educational values from a disgust with parental complaints assignments of those students now randomly housed. If we could only spread out the pain. So to speak, no one could argue that he or she was unfairly treated Moreover no definitive proof exists showing that the present system causes any harm. Last year Associate Registrar Lay Halfond Mather House Semor Lutor Steven Epsterm prepared a report chock full of numbers supposedly indicating...
...While a random lottery poses many problems satisfaction with the present system continues to rise. The Whitla Verba survey from the spring of 1983 showed that on a scale of 1 to 5 I representing high satisfaction with the present system, students average 'a 1.9 in 1983 compared with a 3.3 1973. In 1994 69 percent of Harvard freshmen received their top choice House while 91 percent of freshmen were assigned to one of their three choices. In the words or one eminent and farsighted Master "if it ain't broken...