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Once again the battle lines are being drawn for the debate which has become the residential life issue of the past two years.
"I worry if a house gets to a situation where people are deterred from applying there because of perceptions that the population there would not welcome them," Jewett said in an interview this week. "The stereotypes are becoming more negative."
And on a more personal level, even first-year students who have acknowledged the value of diversifying the houses say they are reluctant to become the "guinea pigs" of Jewett's experiment.
THIS is not to suggest that the council's more directly student-oriented service functions are not valuable. Many worthy but indigent student organizations have benefited from the council's grant system. The council also funds social functions, the majority of which succeed reasonably well.
Nonetheless, the council's stand provoked a refreshing wave of concern on campus. For at least a week, students actively discussed the state of society around them and reminded themselves that sociology and government are but everyday realities and not just sections of the course book.