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According to the memo, a computer assigns random numbers to each rooming group. But the crucial part of the housing lottery--the actual assignment--is completed and checked only by housing officials. This contradicts administrators' description of the housing procedure. Many students, having lost faith in the administrations' statements, may understandably suspect systematic official manipulation in this clandestine manual process...
...manipulation, but dispel these student suspicions. The House assignments, if they are still to be done manually, should be witnessed by members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. CHUL overseers would prevent any more "mistakes," the more suspicion of which has undermined the integrity of this supposedly random process and the deans associated with...
...much, usually beginning his long monologues too vehemently and maintaining the same tone throughout. This inevitably becomes tedious. His grimacing is equally overdone. Toope has a face that rivals Jerry Lewis's for its malleability. He abuses this asset, however, and often seems to forcing his face into a random series of contortions...
Such spot checks by police are common practice. Last week, by a vote of 8 to 1. the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they are unconstitutional. No longer will police be able to stop a car at random to look at a driver's credentials unless the officer has some objective reason to suspect that the law has been broken. The case before the court involved a Delaware driver named William Prouse, 20, who was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana after his car was stopped during a "routine" license check in 1976. Police Officer Anthony Avena...
...grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority"; people have as much reason to expect privacy from government intrusion in their cars, he added, as they do in their homes...