Word: itness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By endorsing 100 percent randomization, the staff wraps itself recklessly in the banner of "diversity," carelessly applying a heavy-handed solution. It sacrifices the principle that a free, educated community can and should direct itself toward its own ideals--gradually if need be--for the illusion that tolerance can be...
But the acknowledgment of difference is a far cry from declaring, "It's all or nothing in the housing lottery.
BUT for this "all or nothing" symbolic victory, randomization would sacrifice much good in the community, without even guaranteeing that diversity's goals would be upheld. For nowhere in an incompletely diverse American can one find the road to equality perfectly paved over. It seems artificial, extreme, and self-defeating...
The College should reconsider partial randomization as a fair, moderate, balanced means of restoring diversity to Harvard, without capitulating to nonsensical compromise or extreme reaction. It also gives community members the responsibility for deciding their own fates.
The problem, which is characterized by migraine-like symptoms and blurry vision first occurred when MacDonald took a blow to the head while playing high school football for the University School in Milwaukee. It recurred several times during his Harvard career and forced him to miss two games last season...