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MANY PEOPLE before me have suggested that the ideal way to run the lottery would be to assign numbers to rooming scanned. The people in rooming group 330 know that if they list Adams as their second choice, it too will be full by the time everybody in the class has been consulted, and they will again be dropped to the bottom of the list. Instead, they list Dunster, in hopes that nobody listed Dunster as a "first choice house" and that space will be available when the program comes back to them...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Multiple Choices | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

...program should be altered, however, to allow freshmen to list all 13 houses in order of preference. The computer should then come to rooming group 330, see that although Lowell is full second-choice Adams still has space, and assign the roommates to that house. If Adams is full, consult the group's third, fourth, fifth choices, etc. until an open house is found...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Multiple Choices | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

...claimed the lives of dozens of judges, policemen and journalists. The battle had slowed noticeably when Virgilio Barco Vargas was sworn in as President last August. The early months of his administration suggested to some that Barco was more interested in his country's economic troubles and did not assign high priority to the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: The Fall of a Cocaine Kingpin | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Faculty members at Cornell University are this month debating whether professors should be able to receive royalties from books they assign to students in their courses, The Cornell Daily Sun reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

...resolution does not require that professors turn over profits they make when their colleagues at Cornell assign their books. Typically, professors receive 10 to 15 percent of the price of the first 5000 books sold, with increasing royalties for more books sold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

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