Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, somewhere in Pennypacker, two other freshmen designed a computer program to determine what their chances were of being assigned to their first choice house...
...after the smoke cleared, not enough freshmen had listed Quincy House, traditionally one the most popular houses and last year's first filled, as one of their three choices, a phenomenon usually experienced only by houses in the distant Radcliffe Quad. The housing office had to assign some students to live in Quincy--just one of a host of unanticipated results of this year's new housing lottery system...
Originally adopted to erase some of the mystery and tension which traditionally surrounded the housing lottery, the new system informed freshmen of what number they would have before they had to choose which three houses were their favorites...
...system provided the freshmen with more knowledge about what their chances would be at getting into their first choice house. With this additional information, the calculations became more intricate and more complicated, particularly for those who received numbers in the middle or at the bottom...
When the hysteria had calmed and all the freshmen knew which house they would call home for the next three years, the College elected to give the new system another try. The new system is not necessarily permanent, however, and the Committee on House Life will review it again next year...