Word: havings
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But most importantly, the editors have overmoralized the whole randomization issue. In relying on divisive steretypes, they dismiss the practical and personal factors which influence a first-year's housing preferences.
PROPONENTS of randomization have resorted to hackneyed generalizations to support their argument. Their reasoning on this issue is both misguided and divisive.
Furthermore, there is no evidence that full randomization would have favorable results. One needs only to examine Yale's sorry system of boring, lifeless residential colleges. There is something to be said for the distinct character of Harvard's houses.
The editors would rather plunge passionately into a policy whose effects have barely been examined. The editors, most of them secure in the houses of their choice, are calling for full randomization of first-year students.
Although a few houses may have problems with diversity, a Harvard student's daily interactions are not limited to the house. They experience the diversity of the University in a variety of courses and extracurricular activities.