Word: assign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last spring Jewett was forced to withdraw a proposal to randomly assign 25 percent of the spaces in eight houses when several masters refused to participate in the experiment...
...leery of administrative attempts at the "social engineering" of residential life at Harvard, several masters say Jewett's proposal to randomly assign at least 50 percent of the spaces in all 12 houses is both unnecessary and futile. Such a move promises to make the houses more homogeneous and lessen their importance in the life of the College, they...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, who has said that he intends to propose a plan that will randomly assign housing to at least 50 percent of first-year students, said he plans to attend the event unless prevented by a dinner engagement...
Despite tumultuous efforts to overhaul it, the College's procedure for assigning students to residential houses emerged relatively unscathed last year. But the issue is far from settled. And Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 is vowing to randomly assign at least 50 percent of the spaces in each house--a radical change from the current "choice-based" system...
...Liem must deal with proposed changes in the freshperson housing lottery himself. He views as fishy a proposal by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to randomly assign at least half the spaces in the lottery...