Word: alle
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Last season, Hughes made a stellar showing in the Beanpot semifinal, but still sat out the championship game. Roy was magic in the NCAA semis, but had to earn all-tourney honors based on his performance in just that game--Hughes still played the big one.
Change in house assignment must take place now--on that, most informed College members agree. House stereotypes that are persistently repellent to large segments of first-year and upperclass students--athleticism, elitism or bohemianism--threaten to leave all students under-educated.
But the acknowledgment of difference is a far cry from declaring, "It's all or nothing in the housing lottery.
Indeed, proponents of 100 percent randomization do not claim to offer a cure-all for Harvard's problems of inequality; instead they implicitly argue broadly that randomization will give symbolic stature to the College's commitment to diversity.
BUT for this "all or nothing" symbolic victory, randomization would sacrifice much good in the community, without even guaranteeing that diversity's goals would be upheld. For nowhere in an incompletely diverse American can one find the road to equality perfectly paved over. It seems artificial, extreme, and self-defeating...