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...There has been progress," Dingman says...
Harvard's system of non-ordered choice was designed to bring diversity to the houses, according to Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman...
...everybody who was selecting X house hadsimilar interests and backgrounds, they would alllive in X house and that would very little reflectthe diversity of Harvard," Dingman says...
...first-years said that their housing choices were influenced by the various House stereotypes. The Committee on House Life, composed of Undergraduate Council representatives, House Masters, Dean of Harvard College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Associate Dean of Harvard College for Human Resources and the House System Thomas Dingman '67, met to discuss the House homogeneity. And in 1990, the current policy of non-ordered choice was adopted...
...motivation behind this change, says Dean Dingman, was that "students come to Harvard not only to learn in the classroom, but to learn from each other and broaden their horizons. It was felt that by living [exclusively] with others very much like themselves, they were not getting the most out of what Harvard had to offer...