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...trying to ignore for the moment that the decision about implementing a partial random lottery housing system disregarded student opinion. I'll pretend that, without considering the merits of university decisions, students should have no voice in making the policies that affect only them. With the random lottery system, there are already enough problems without raising this objection...
Harvard is trying to reconcile the qualities of choice and diversity within one housing system. Until now, Harvard (and many other schools) assigned students according to choice. Other schools (such as Yale) assign students entirely at random, preferring diversity to choice. Each system has its merits, for if it didn't, schools would not be using these methods to house students, and each system has succeeded in maintaining choice or diversity...
...assume diversity is the motivation for the new system results in contradiction. Eliot, Adams, and Winthrop have refused to participate in the random lottery. Eliot and Adams suffer from the strongest stereotypes, and if the University wanted to ensure diversity in the house system, all of the houses must be required to participate. So the relatively diverse houses become more diverse, and the less diverse houses remain as they are. That some houses will not participate indicates that it is not just an issue of choice against diversity, for Harvard wants to preserve house sovereignty and encourage house diversity...
...EIGHT of 12 houses reserve 25 percent of incoming space for random assignment...
...third of six speeches of its kind to be given this year, the lecture was written with the help of a computer program that allows Cage to discover meaning in random word pairings...