Word: assignations
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...What sort of internal lottery does your house have to assign rooms this year...
...seniors and juniors have separate lotteries in order to assign rooms. Each member of a rooming group draws a number in their respective lotteries, and the best number drawn represents that group. Each rooming group then selects their choice of room in order of their lottery number. Sophomore rooms are assigned at random...
...housing committee of two students and twomembers of the tutorial staff assign rooms torising sophomores according to what preferencesthey list in the spring. For juniors and seniors,there is a lottery and a big map from whichstudents select their room choices...
...propose a new system. Unlike the present system, frosh would be required to rank all houses in order of preference. Then, similar to how it was done under the old system, a lottery would assign numbers secretly to each rooming group. Then, the FDO would grant each group's wishes according to its lottery number and preference list. The rooming group that received number one would receive their top choice. The rest of the rooming groups in order would then get their top choice contingent on its availability. Freshmen would then be notified of the results...
...rhetoric that is more emotional than enlightening. Before the vote, Administration spokesmen warned that anyone opposing aid to the contras would be regarded as "soft on Communism." Wagging a finger toward the Democratic side of the aisle, G.O.P. Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois charged that "history is going to assign to you folks the role of pallbearers to democracy in Central America." Such attacks predictably backfired among members of Congress who saw their patriotism impugned. Accusing the Reaganauts of Red baiting, the Democrats used some scare tactics of their own, darkly warning that Nicaragua could become "another Viet...