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...modified random system no doubt represents a radical departure from the current system, a change that would be much more palatable if the long-awaited Quad renovations took place in the near future. No matter what system is chosen, the College must make the Quad a more desirable place to live, possibly attractive enough to put Cabot, North and Currier Houses on the upper tier of desirability...
...this discussion about a random lottery act as a smoke screen for the real task ahead: narrowing the disparity between the River and Quad Houses. If college officials and council members are truly concerned about the quality of residential life at Harvard, they will redouble their efforts to make the old Radcliffe dorms better places to live because no matter which lottery is used the same percentage of students will be setting up camp north of the Common each year. Although nothing bar plate techtonics can narrow the distance, plenty can be done to raise the Quad Houses to physical...
What Administrators and council members are looking for in the results of the three-day plebiscite is where exactly the student body stands. Are undergraduates supportive of the existing procedure governed the principle of first choice maximazation or are they ready for the introduction of a more radical, random lottery that assigns students to Houses regardless of preference? While strong arguments can be made or a random lottery for equality's sake, we believe such a method would damage, if not ruin, the spirit of community the Houses system was originally intended to foster...
Underlying the proposal for a random lottery is the notion that, somehow, the Houses should be microcosms, mini-Colleges in themselves, each reflecting Harvard's overall diversity. To support then cause, the proponents of randomization marshall a variety of statistics on the concentration of certain groups in different Houses as proof that the goal of diversity is far from realized. The Council's report on the lottery cites figures stating, for instance, that one House consists of 45.7 percent varsity athletes while another has only 4.7 percent; minorities make up 17 percent of one House but have only...
...scale, thereby converting what could be an impersonal three years to a meaningful experience. But to assume that this type of community will automatically spring up from a group lumped together by the arbitary workings of a computer is mistaken. Something more, something like common interests, is needed. A random lottery may diversify but it will also splinter...