Word: group
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, of course, those same officials waged a vicious campaign against overseers candidates nominated by the pro-divestment group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA). As it had in past years, HRAAA was simply putting forward an independent slate of candidates to force the University's divestment from companies that do business in South Africa...
When HRAAA's campaign--spearheaded by the candidacy of Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--gained steam, however, top Alumni Association officials launched a bitter attack against the group...
...Young Report, a controversial proposal that gives the University more control over future overseer elections. Under the plan, which will be implemented this year, the University will mail letters to alumni endorsing their official slate of candidates. The plan will also require HRAAA candidates to be listed as a group separately on the ballots, after the University candidates. Previously, they were listed in random order...
...ordered choice is quite similar to the present system. Students form rooming groups and can block together as they do now. Then, instead of ranking their top three choices in order, they pick (but don't rank) four houses that they would be happy in. The computer then puts the blocks in order at random as it does now, and it goes down the list, randomly choosing which of the four houses the group will live...
...ordered choice would eliminate stereotypes by getting rid of the ranked choices that enable similar people to fill up one house. If everyone chooses three or four houses that they would be equally happy in, then no house could be filled by any one group...