Word: freshman
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House masters today will propose the most significant changes to the freshman lottery since the late 1960s, masters and administrators said late last week...
...masters' plan, which will be presented this afternoon to a student-faculty committee in charge of house life at University Hall, outlines fundamental changes in how the composition of each house is determined. The plan specifically attempts to increase randomness in freshman house assignment--and hence student diversity--while preserving student choice and house identities, said Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman...
Currently, freshman rooming groups receive lottery numbers and submit their top three house choices to the College. A computer then numerically assigns the rooming groups to one of their designated houses. Students who cannot be fit into any of their chosen houses because of space limitations are randomly assigned to remaining, still vacant houses...
...Yale, students have no choice in chosingtheir college--equivalent to a Harvard house--andare randomly assigned before their freshman year...
Graham lost September's Democratic primary to Thompson by 49 votes. Her district, the 28th Middlesex, covers central Cambridge, including Peabody Terrace, Mather, Dunster, Adams and Leverett Houses, and the freshman Union dorms...