Word: heimert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eliot Master Alan E. Heimert '49 has described the administration's actions as indicating "that the houses will be run from University Hall." His colleague, Adams Master Robert J. Kiely, agrees, saying, "Harvard is a very undemocratic place. Deans want to centralize even more...
...Harvard College is stressful enough," says Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49. "Students have a right to live in a situation that is most comfortable and least distracting...
...Kiel and Heimert, the College's most senior masters, add that while certain groups indeed may be underrepresented in some houses, no group is unrepresented...
...Even now no house is totally homogeneous," says Heimert. "And I don't think anything prevents anyone from meeting all kinds of people...
...Yale, where the housing system is completely random and the residential colleges allegedly no longer play an important role in student life. Instead, the housing situation at Yale has led to tightly-knit rooming groups and a lack of esprit de corps within each residential college as a whole, Heimert says...