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Smith, who is the only male in his eight-person group, said he thinks his odds are especially good...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, the authority on housing decisions, seems to understand this second set of issues, and has put forward the eight-person blocking group to increase the interaction between blocking groups in the Houses. "Harvard goes to extraordinary lengths to find the most talented, ambitious and interesting future leaders of the world," Lewis said in a recent interview with The Crimson. "If you live with all of your friends from Andover or from the football team, you're losing something...
...Lewis is right at least in surmising the problem. I don't think eight-person blocking groups are the answer because I dislike the blocking system altogether. At best I think this is an acceptable interim step--much like the way blocking groups once could choose four Houses as a short-lived compromise in the years immediately before randomization...
There is no easy answer, but we must come to see the House system is dead and it is time to move on. Bigger changes than eight-person blocking groups are necessary in order to bring community back to the Houses with more than random luck...
...students say the eight-person limit does not easily accommodate blocking groups with both men and women...