Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this "all or nothing" symbolic victory, randomization would sacrifice much good in the community, without even guaranteeing that diversity's goals would be upheld. For nowhere in an incompletely diverse American can one find the road to equality perfectly paved over. It seems artificial, extreme, and self-defeating to attempt to do so so forcibly here, no matter how much we would like...
Those findings largely present only exaggerations of regular statistical variations among houses--variations that will continue even after randomization...
...current system of house assignment breeds intolerance, fear and sometimes even loathing. A Crimson poll of undergraduates last year indicated that few students believed they could live comfortably at any of the 12 houses. By allowing students to choose the type of living environment they want, the current maximum first choice system makes everybody suffer...
...anything is clear, it's that the current housing lottery must be changed. Even the staunchest foes of randomization among the masters conceded that the College must alter the assignment process after viewing data on house populations released by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 last month...
...evidence suggests that students probably would not feel uncomfortable with the change, even at first. A wide-ranging survey of upperclass students two springs ago showed that satisfaction with house life and success in the assignment lottery were virtually unrelated...