Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...root of the problem with the lottery is information: freshmen are given too little of it to make an informed choice. The plan to give freshmen their numbers in advance was a worthy effort to reduce this difficulty but, like many half-measures, it only made things worse. Harvard should respond by increasing the amount of information available still further, rather than going back to the old, and almost equally unsatisfactory, system of previous years...
...Freshmen should be told their numbers in advance and given some time to consider their options. Then, over three or four days, each group should go to whatever office administers these things and choose their house. Group one should go first, followed by group two, and so on. The availability of houses should be posted as the groups make their choices. In this way, the agonizing second-guessing of past years will be completely eliminated. Each rooming group will know what they are getting before they make their choice...
...line. Since only one member of each rooming group need file the rooming choice, and since the process itself would be quick, the whole affair could be finished in a few days. No fuss, no mess, no worry--and no more blind choices, frantic freshmen, or 2 a.m. calls from the Statistics Department...
...promote discussion of civil rights issues, two freshmen have launched a group to encourage social and political debate among campus groups...
...disclosure that two prefects had become romantically involved with freshmen under their charge focused campus attention on the program in November. As a result of the incidents, one prefect resigned and the other was reassigned...