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The best solution keeps in mind and balances the realities and values at Harvard.
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.
Only in extrem circumstances hould a community's right and responsibility to make its own informed decisions be denied. The house system does not yet pose us this crisis.
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...
The subtle irritation among the staff lies in the perception of persistent "types" of students--athletes in Kirkland, private school graduates and the wealthy in Eliot, and humanities or artistically inclined students in Adams--who do not mingle and will not unless they are forced to.