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With the new eight-person groups, the College can guarantee that 16 hockey players will never again be placed in one House because the lottery is not completely random, explains Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04. The Freshman Dean’s Office can tell University Hall if certain groups—for instance, two groups of eight athletes from one team—should not be put together...
...addition, Chopra says the College’s main proof of the success of the eight-person groups—the senior surveys—is misleading. He says students’ rising satisfaction with House life tends to reflect their satisfaction with their dining halls, for example, rather than indicating their affinity for their House community...
...some students say they resent being limited in effect to blockmates of their own gender. Kathleen A. Urbanic ‘03, whose all-female group lives in Quincy House, says she feels her relationships with her close male friends have suffered as a result of the eight-person maximum...
BRAHMS, BARTOK AND SAINT-SAENS. The Boston Chamber Music Society, which dates from 1983, is at its core an eight-person ensemble. Guest musicians enhance the orchestration as needed—this time for Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals. Since the Society is also celebrating its 20th anniversary year, it has promised for this performance a surprise mystery guest. Who could it be? Sunday, April 27, 7:30 p.m. Admission...
...next few months, the provost’s office—along with an eight-person advisory committee whose membership is still being finalized—will lead the search for a replacement for Cuno...