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...MAJORITY'S peculiar exercise in social engineering seems to undermine its avowed intent. While a random housing lottery seeks to promote greater tolerance and to improve social harmony, it would in practice remove existing support systems--checks on persecution--and limit individual choice...
...efficiency of the present lottery system is at stake (only 80 per cent of students now get one of their three choices), then perhaps schemes to reform the lottery but preserve a significant margin of choice should be considered. But a random lottery simply enforces one more decision on students who have only advisory power at best in administration and education here...
...white students sent to Currier House two years ago, not from any long-term trend towards racial balance. The College is right to consider ways of making the Houses the more representative, diverse units that most administrators believe they should be. We call upon Harvard to weigh seriously a random lottery for rooming groups to make their ideal of microcosmic Houses a tenable...
...baseball's delightful complications are programmed in. It is not possible to catch a fly ball. A Poker and Blackjack cassette is fun to see once, but poor in concept, since neither game works unless money is at stake. Intellivision always puts on a handsome show, but a random sample shows that it has not yet learned to play a really good game...
...impressive scientific witness criticizing Darwinism, Astronomer N.C. Wickramasinghe of University College, Cardiff, Wales, had argued that genetic mutation produces only minor "fine tuning of the evolutionary process." He scoffed at the contention that "monkey genes" or natural selection could explain the appearance of the human race; the odds that "random shuffling" of amino acids would have produced life were, he said, one out of 10 40'000-the equivalent of a tornado blowing through a junkyard and producing a jumbo...