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...believe that the College should adopt a uniform policy for limiting course enrollments. It is unfair that different overcrowded courses were limited by different methods this year. But we disagree with the majority's view that a weighted lottery is the answer. In fact, a completely random lottery is the only way to fairly administer course sizes...
...because it is their "last chance" to take a course fails because so few courses actually remain the same from year to year. It is incorrect and unfair to assume that younger students will have an opportunity to follow an academic program identical to that of older students. A random lottery avoids this problem by giving underclassmen--who must fulfill more cumbersome Core requirements--an equal shot...
Harvard boasts an extraordinary number of retired athletes. Pick a large rooming group at random and chances are good that someone excelled at a varsity sport in high school which they no longer play competitively. Many recruited athletes never wear the Crimson colors, choosing to pursue other interests. And a whole other group make a name for themselves on the Harvard playing fields and then quit...
...about twice the size the instructor, Associate Professor of Fine Arts Diane W. Upright, had in mind, and she told freshmen and sophomores in the class to make themselves scarce. Enter the Core's administrators, who told Upright she could only thin out her ranks by means of a random lottery...
During the Andropov era, the overwhelming majority of Soviets have lost their fear of the midnight knock on the door and the random arrest, but the KGB still moves with brutal swiftness to suppress dangerous displays of "nonconformity." One innovation was the creation of a KGB directorate to control political, nationalist and religious dissent. The directorate has achieved results without great social disruption, something that Andropov's conservative comrades on the Politburo clearly value. The democratic movement within the Soviet Union that first surfaced in the 1960s and gained impetus from the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Human Rights has been...