Word: groupe
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...result, Lewis announced his intention to review blocking group sizes over the summer at a meeting of the Committee on House Life (COHL) last semester. Although Lewis would not offer an indication of his intentions then, many Masters said they anticipated a reduction in group size...
...mail message yesterday, Lewis said he and the Masters noticed that most large blocking groups are not entirely comprised of close friends--in particular, "the 'hinged' blocked phenomenon" in which one large blocking group is comprised of two sub-groups that are linked by a few common friends...
...Eight is actually not a small number for a friendship group," Lewis wrote in the e-mail message. "It's large enough to accommodate most close friendship groups, including groups involving both men and women, but small enough to ensure that students from one block will get to know other students in the House and to enable the gender ratios to be well balanced everywhere in the future...
...COHL, said yesterday that he was disappointed by the decision. Although he said one or two of the other student representatives to COHL might have supported the decrease in blocking size, Seton said the council has traditionally been firmly against any lowering of the number of students per blocking group...
...Hoxby began her work by using the division of colleges into eight tiers done by the 1982 Barron's College Guide. This guide was chosen over other ranking systems, she said, because it uses a group-based ranking system which fluctuated little over the years...