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Despite widespread public belief, news organizations rarely assign large teams of reporters to controversial, breaking stories, Bernstein said...
Complaints against the first randomization plan included: that houses with the worst image problems would not participate; that the plan had been implemented without sufficient student consultation; that it would be ineffective in any event because too few students would be assigned randomly; that housing choice had been promised to pre-frosh and lastly, that any plan to assign only some students randomly will always be implicitly unfair...
...sigh that the move represents more a postponement of policy than a turnabout in philosophy, Jewett simultaneously announced that he intends to press for a plan mandatory for all houses to randomly assign at least 50 percent of freshmen next year...
...freshman petition states that the new lottery plan will automatically relegate 25 percent of freshmen to random assignment, rather than recognizing that some houses will reserve 25 percent of their space. It vehemently charges that "it is unjust to randomly assign Houses to some students," when, in fact, Harvard has always done...
Harvard is trying to reconcile the qualities of choice and diversity within one housing system. Until now, Harvard (and many other schools) assigned students according to choice. Other schools (such as Yale) assign students entirely at random, preferring diversity to choice. Each system has its merits, for if it didn't, schools would not be using these methods to house students, and each system has succeeded in maintaining choice or diversity...