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Quincy Master David Aloian '49 says he opposes a random system because a student should have the right to choose where he will spend the majority of his Harvard career. "There is nothing wrong with clustering to share interests, and students do quite well finding other crossroads for drama and athletics, for example," Aloian explains...
...poll, which will be distributed in dining hall to all undergraduates this Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, will, among other issue, ask students to choose between the current lottery system and several versions of random house assignment processes...
Keep it as it is, some student leaders say: Make it totally random, others say. Make it a little of both, still others...
Adam J. Augustynski '86, a Lowell House council member who serves on the Residential Committee and co-authored the lottery report, agrees with Rosen. But he adds that he is also in favor of the "modified random" proposal, where students get to select their rooming groups but are to Houses. With the modified system, Augustynski says, "House streotypes will disappea and freshmen will be less anxious about the lottery...
...addition, Bail is concerned that the undergraduate Black community may be "spreading thin. Under a random system there might be 20 Blacks per House at the most, and it's unfortunate the number can't be higher. Over the years, you've seen Leverett. Adams, Quincy, Currier serve as Houses where you'd go to get a sense of the Black community. Under a random system, people coming to Harvard looking for a Black community might not see much...