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Throughout the ongoing hoopla about how the housing lottery should work, administrators and students have agreed on one point only: that there is no "fair" way to assign houses to rising sophomores. This is simply not true...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Notes of a Lottery Watcher | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

...with long-range fuel tanks now bypass Florida's notorious narcs and land instead in South Carolina, Tennessee or even New York's Long Island, which puts the product only a few miles from Manhattan's penthouses and discos. The influx has prompted New York Governor Mario Cuomo to assign 200 more officers to drug-enforcement squads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried By a Tropical Snowstorm | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Selling tickets at Harvard and Yale is a confusing job, ticket venders agreed. Not only are assignments done by hand they explained, but also both schools use complex priority systems to assign seats. Harvard's system has 13 priority levels, with the President and the Fellows at the top and the Board of Overseers just below them...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: No Sell-Out, Game Attracts Fewer Harvard Undergrads | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

...coax better writing out of fledgling scientists, reports that students in every subject are expressing themselves with more clarity and coherence. Psychologist Doug Chute uses the Mac to replace polygraph machines and other behavioral lab paraphernalia. No longer dependent on limited laboratory space and equipment, he can now assign individual research projects to 1,200 introductory-psych students a year. History Professor Eric Brose discovered that by displaying on a Mac the political boundaries and disarmament terms established by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, he was able to skip his usual map lecture and concentrate on the underlying causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Machine on Every Desk | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...shortage is most apparent among technical directors, who are often sought only after casting is completed. Ann E. Pforzheimer '86, the club official who helps directors find technical workers, said she believes the problem is caused by the lack of a central office to assign "techies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Actor, Worker Shortage Plagues Dramatic Club | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

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