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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agree with the staff's underlying assertion that blocking group size should remain a matter of student choice. But for this very reason, we are wary of their implicit conception of an "ideal" blocking group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep it Nebulous | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

...unique first-year experience produces an infinitely diverse array of personal bonds. Reducing any particular network of friendships to mere factors of size of intimacy ignores their individual richness and worth. It is up to each individual student--through personal introspection and open dialogue--to determine the ideal blocking group. The end result might happen to be a large, small, tight-knit or diffuse group. It could mean a group that encapsulates one's entire social circle or one that exists solely for convenience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep it Nebulous | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

Most important is that despite these differences, each blocking group has the same potential to contribute positively to the House community. The challenge, then, lies not in deriving some ideal definition of blocking, but rather, in successfully integrating these diverse groups into a larger whole. Meeting this challenge requires the collective efforts of everyone who belongs--or will belong--to a House. --Jenny E. Heller '01 Richard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep it Nebulous | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

...positive-but tentative-sense that some of the adverse effects of randomization predicted by its critics may not be born out in practice. But the data also raise concerns about ways in which students may be trying to avoid randomization's ill-effects by surrounding themselves with large groups of companions. Though the figures regarding the concentration of minority students in blocking groups raise interesting questions, the statistics are not yet conclusive enough for productive discussion. We hope to hear more from the College on the topic in the future. Meanwhile, the question of how large a blocking group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Size Does Matter | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

...their other major concerns is that large blocking groups insulate students from the ideals of randomization by reducing their motivation to get involved in House community beyond the confines of the blocking group. And while we understand the College and various masters' concern that students in large blocking groups neglect to take as active a role in House-specific activities as students from smaller groups, we feel that such integration is the burden of the House themselves and not of the students. Last week's announcement should not prompt the College to limit student liberty by curbing blocking group size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Size Does Matter | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

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