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...last major change in the lottery occurred in spring 1986, when freshmen were for the first time told their lottery numbers before having to hand in their house choices. Under the current system, after turning in their rooming forms, students receive a random, computer-generated group number and then must turn in their house choices by 1 p.m., March...
...random telephone survey of 332 undergraduates. The Crimson found only 183, or 55 percent, of them plan to vote in a presidential primary. Additionally, among those students polled who plan to vote, 30 percent said they remain undecided...
...more than 11 million homosexuals nationwide, such random attacks are increasingly commonplace. According to gay-rights groups, hate-motivated assaults have nearly tripled in recent years. In New York City, reported attacks on gays, probably a tiny fraction of the total, jumped from 176 in 1984 to 517 last year. While homosexuals have always been a target of abuse, gay activists attribute the rising violence to the AIDS epidemic and a conservative backlash. "AIDS has provided a green light to the bashers and the bigots," says Kevin Berrill of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "It's a convenient...
...survey of a random 10 percent sampling of undergraduates provides the perfect opportunity to gauge how many perceived cases of poor treatment have occurred during the last four years. We can only hope that the receptiveness UHS has shown for student opinion on the type of health care provided will translate into reform in areas where students feel they have been given poor treatment...
...time Americans pick a new President on Nov. 8 they will have invested nearly half a billion dollars in a random and chaotic process. They will have absorbed encyclopedic detail on such pop issues as the "wimp factor," and probably given more of the public's airwaves to this political marathon than to any other story of our age. Then a lot of them will lose interest until the Inauguration...