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...sophomores leading the attempt to change the system argue that the process is "inequitable" and that it encourages competitiveness among freshmen seeking admission to oversubscribed Houses. Their greatest problem, according to John Baker '74, James Downey '74, and David Johnson '74, has been convincing the staff that they are not questioning the people making the decisions or any past decision per se. They are questioning the principles underlying the decision-making process...
...ISSUE," Baker said, "is one of equity, not randomness." As explained by Downey, "We want each freshman who wants to be in the House to have the same chance as any other freshman. We don't want them to think they have to compete somehow or to have to prove their personal adequacy...
Chris Semine '73, House Committee Chairman for Mather House, which is conducting tours but not formal interviews, believes his House is "very, very, very much" the victim of old stereotypes. His remarks confirm the feelings of Baker, Downey, and Johnson that freshmen have much too little real information with which to choose Houses in the first place...
Four students living in Adams House, which has traditionally been one of the most over-subscribed Houses, have taken a praiseworthy step toward ending the aura of prestige there. The four--David L. Johnson '74, James M. Downey '74, John E. Baker '74 and Ronald Beaulieu '73--are proposing an end to the admissions procedures which purport to select the students best suited to live in Adams House...
...Federal government has maintained that Downey and Fecteau were civilian employees of the Army, but the Chinese claimed they were on a mission to drop Nationalist Chinese agents on the mainland...