Word: buts
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The admissions office should send a letter to all accepted students this spring informing them of the new housing process. That way those who want "separate but equal" housing can seek it elsewhere.
Non-ordered choice is clearly not the solution. Statistics prepared by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, indicated that the proposal might take the edge off of some stereotypes, but Whitla relied on data from last year's lottery in which first-year students...
But more fundamentally, non-ordered choice will fail because it will allow students who would ordinarily not live in the stereotyped houses to continue to avoid them. After all, a perennially popular first-choice house is "Anywhere but Adams, Eliot or Kirkland."
State legislators yesterday expressed mixed reactions to increasing indications that Boston University President John R. Silber will run for governor next fall, but several said the controversial figure would be sure to stir up the campaign.
"He has been somewhat of a dictator at BU," said State Sen. Salvatore R. Albano (D-Somerville). "His ultra-right wing, shape-up-or-ship-out philosophy may be one that he came up with after much thought, but it doesn't work in a political arena where there has...