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...decision last week to recommend an end to enforced sex ratios in the Houses was billed as a victory for freedom of choice. Its proponent, Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, argued that sex ratios are in the same category as master's choice or grade point average, arbitrary criteria that end up depriving people of freedom to decide where they want to live...
...seemed like a good idea in 1971, when the weekly Montgomery County, Md., Sentinel decided to offer readers an unusual consumer service by rating all 22 of the county's high school principals. Two young Sentinel reporters questioned parents, teachers and students. The criteria: how successfully each principal had "established a positive, open learning atmosphere in his high school-the extent to which he leads instead of drives the students...
...research group chose the criteria for inadequate housing that led to a conservative national figure, Birch said. Physically substandard housing was judged only on the basis of adequate heating and plumbing and discounted such items as lighting, ventilation, and a unit's sanitary condition...
...those days are apparently over now; CHUL eliminated rank, concentration, secondary school background and master's choice as criteria in determining housing...
However, Bruce Collier, research associate at the Office of Tests, said CHUL eliminated the old criteria because they didn't matter much anyway in the way assignments turned...