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Even more outrageous and narrow is the proposed house transfer procedure. Currently, when a student wants to transfer out of his house, they pick another house and apply. Either they are accepted into the new house and move, or they are rejected and must begin the process again in the following semester...
Apparently, Jewett and others feel that if randomization is implemented, students will seek to circumvent it by transferring into other houses. To avoid this, they have suggested that students who wish to transfer should enter a lottery, in which they will be assigned--you guessed it--to a random house...
...addition, transfers often decide to live with friends in other houses, perhaps because of a falling-out with their original blocking group. But the new transfer proposal would require this hypothetical friend to leave their house and enter the lottery as well...
This provides a strong disincentive to transfer: not only is the student assigned to a random house that may be as bad as the one she left, but she will probably have to do it without friends. This draconian proposal illustrates that students' happiness has become entirely subservient to the goal of racial and social diversity...
...short of cash but endowed with a wealth of computer skills, a clever employee is able to reach inside the boss's private data base and ``kidnap'' invaluable company secrets by locking them with a sophisticated encryption program. She then sends an anonymous electronic ransom note demanding a wire transfer of $3 million to a blind account in the Cayman Islands -- or the boss's proprietary data will be lost forever...