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Last spring, amid a routine administrative review of the lottery system that occurs every three to four years, a storm of controversy arose when the Standing Committee on Athletics (SCA) recommended limiting the number of varsity athletes in each house to preserve student diversity within them...
...ensuing campus debate, several University officials expressed their support for the report's intent, including SCA chairman Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and President...
...similar reasons, the masters also denied SCA's April request for information outlining house assignments for this year's freshman athletes. The committee sought the date to determine whether publicity surrounding the threat of quotas has corrected the uneven distribution of athletes...
...Student SCA members said that the refusal was based on masters' concerns that the information would be distributed to the press. They added that the masters believed the report on athletes became public through unauthorized channels. The report was distributed officially by the SCA chairman, Dowling...
Although the SCA report did not specifically discuss introducing quotas on minorities in the individual houses, it compared the athlete imbalances to hypothetical gender and minority imbalances, stating, "It would certainly vitiate the Lowell ideal (and the current coeducational ideal) if any house became disproportionately male or female. The same would be true if any house became disproportionately minority or white. We believe the same is true when any house becomes disproportionately representative of either athletes or non-athletes...