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"It seems to me the wheels are turning," said council residential committee member James Fowler '92, a proponent of total choice. "I would put all of my money on 'non-ordered choice' now."
The dean, who early this fall promised to implement at least 50 percent randomization into the lottery, said Monday he finds the non-ordered choice proposal an "interesting idea." The dean this week passed the proposal on to University statisticians, who are evaluating how well the plan would diversify the...
Some committee members said that although many council members want to preserve the status quo of maximum choice in house assignment, they sense that council leaders are pressing for non-ordered choice out of political desperation, and a conviction that the council will gain if it appears to have won...
"A lot of people are acting out of fear. They are afraid that if they don't at least partially give in, that Jewett will do whatever he wants," said H. Lewis Wolfgang '93, a member of the Committee Against Randomization who has observed several residential committee meetings.
But no longer. Now, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announces major policy initiatives to the press on a daily, rather than a quintannual, basis. Eastern European nations are stumbling over each other to declare their independence--witness the recent resignation of the entire East German Politburo. At this torrid pace, the...