Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the ongoing hoopla about how the housing lottery should work, administrators and students have agreed on one point only: that there is no "fair" way to assign houses to rising sophomores. This is simply not true...
...only objectively fair system--also the only one which would remove permanently the stigma of living at the Quad--is to have every student do at least a year-long stint up Garden Street. The easiest way to do this...
...Life isn't fair," is the proverbial response to a bad lottery number. This axiom is indeed a truism in the real world where people who have more money are able to afford better housing. Why not adopt this approach for housing at Harvard? Undeniably, a suite in Lowell House would get more on the market than one at North House, in Harvard's terms. How about offering those spacious suites to the highest freshmen bidders...
...laissez-faire housing makes your stomache turn, here's another fair solution: housing based on merit. When Phi Beta Kappa keys or summa and magna degrees are awarded, few people question how deserving the recipients are. If academic achievement and distinction are the currency of the Harvard community, why not let this success principle determine the housing system...
...this midwinter Thursday morning, 164 people--a fair chunk of Hibbing's 20,000 citizens--have prudently chosen the latter course. Almost nobody entertains the idea that a gambling trip will pay the Christmas bills. They haven't budgeted for winning, but for how much they can afford to lose: from $30 to $2,000. (At least those are the figures they'll admit to.) Many of them say they are going to Vegas mainly to get warm. This is no doubt the reason why Mickey Koehler lugs $40 worth of quarters and $20 in dimes onto the plane...