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...committee’s discussion on House randomization was prompted by a 1984 study authored by Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond and Mather House Senior Tutor Steven A. Epstein, which confirmed that Houses conformed to perceived stereotypes...
...parental complaints assignments of those students now randomly housed. If we could only spread out the pain. So to speak, no one could argue that he or she was unfairly treated Moreover no definitive proof exists showing that the present system causes any harm. Last year Associate Registrar Lay Halfond Mather House Semor Lutor Steven Epsterm prepared a report chock full of numbers supposedly indicating the deleterious effects of the present system. Master Bossert and others who know immediately denounced the report which contained few if any statistically significant figures Indeed in 1969 Harvard College implemented a random lottery amidst...
Authored by Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond and Mather House Senior Tutor Steven A. Epstein, the study once again showed that students gravitate to Houses that conform to perceived stereotypes, causing, for instance, wide disparities in academic performance in the Houses...
...wide disparities in academic performance among residents of the College's 13 Houses. While the study does provide food for thought, students and administrators should think twice before drawing broad conclusions from the report, authored by Stephen A. Epstein, senior tutor of Mather House, and Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond...
...Mather House Senior Tutor Stephen A. Epstein, who co-authored the study with Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond, said yesterday that he was surprised and dismayed at the University's reception of the report. "We had no idea that the mere existence of such a report would be controversial," he said...