Word: ans
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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...
"Nothing is definite yet," said Joyce MacDonald, Lane's mother, in an interview last night from her home in Mequon, Wis. "He has just decided that he needs to step back and evaluate the situation and see if playing hockey is really worth the risk of something really serious happening...
LAST Sunday, the Undergraduate Council voted to back the status quo, ignorantly failing to acknowledge the problems that riddle the house system. For reasons that were admittedly political, council members also voted to endorse "non-ordered choice" as an acceptable alternative.
An entirely random process would assure that diversity is more than a frequently-trumpeted virtue. It would put the athlete, academic, musician, artist, political activist in the same house, allowing them to bounce their ideas off each other.
But other legislators said a Silber governorship would provide an infusion of energy into a political arena long dominated by liberal Democrats.