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...letter sent to Dean May yesterday, the House Committee chairmen of the four non-coed Houses have recommended such a solution, only asking that a new, random lottery determine, once and for all, which Houses go coed. Since last year's preferential lottery-engineered by May in a stunning display of bureaucratic complexity-approached the arbitrary quality of random selection, it would seem absurd to repeat a process that would ultimately uproot some of the women who have begun to establish themselves in their Houses...
Laslo Benedek's methodical direction and Henning Kristiansen's astonishing photography-a gothic mix of melancholy blue landscapes and pale, crumbling interiors-only serve to underline the film's deficiency, the utter lack of logic. Random composition is all very well in contemporary art; in the traditional thriller, it is an unwanted and fatal guest...
...DICK GIBSON SHOW by Stanley Elkin. 335 pages. Random House...
South House-with all dorms counted except Briggs-voted 129 to 11 against selecting a representative "given the nature of the CRR and the nature of the procedure of selection." A second question, asking whether students would support sending representatives to the CRR if they were not chosen at random, was defeated...
Forty-seven of the 216 voting in the Lowell House referendum accepted the current random selection process of sending representatives to the CRR. Fifty-five others rejected the current selection policies but voted to accept alternative means. But 114 students-almost 55 per cent of those voting-rejected all selection procedures and refused to "accept the existence...