Word: jewett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slate included William C. Kurs '64, first vice-president; James I. Knapp '64, second vice-president; L. Stockton Illoway '65, operations director; Danny J. Boggs '65, corresponding secretary; John R. Bailey '64, treasurer; Jonathan Jewett '65, Eric A. Von Salzen '65, Mark J. Andrews '66, David L. McNicol '66, and Laurance Rockefeller '66, members at large...
...Jewett said that most freshmen completed the last statement by indicating concern about the degree to which a desirable roommate would smoke, drink, or insist upon neatness. These preferences, as well as the more general ones expressed in response to the first three questionnaire items, were followed as closely as possible in selecting roommates...
Diversity in the dorms was achieved by following three standards of balance. Public and private school graduates were mixed together. "For instance, we cannot have an Exeter dorm," Jewett said. Also, some freshmen with athletic talent or interest were placed in each dorm, so that intramural athletic competition would not prove completely one-sided. Finally, geographical distribution was sought and realized without great difficulty, since many freshmen specifically asked to be assigned a roommate from a different section of the country...
...freshman room assignment at both Radcliffe and Harvard, the working theory seems to be that freshman roommates need not be soulmates or confidantes of a lifetime, but only "chums" in the current colloquial sense of the term. "The rooming situation should be one in which a student can relax," Jewett concluded, "not one in which he must be converted or educated...
...Jewett admitted that the committee can make mistakes in roommate combinations, because it is difficult to tell from paper forms what a boy will really be like when he arrives in September. The number of actual roommate break-ups is about eight or ten a year. "Generally, these splits occur because one roommate plays his violin at all hours of the night, or for some other reason connected with personal habits," Jewett continued. "Roommates almost never break up over large questions of educational or cultural values...